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ROY IS OUT OF ICU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was moved to a regular room this afternoon!!!!!
His labs continue to be moving in a positive direction and he remains in excellent spirits!!!!
If you would like his room number please let me know - but he's still classified so if you were to ask the front desk they'd look at you like you were silly and say "there's nobody here by that name".
This absolutely made my entire week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His rectal tube and chest tube came out today also. He'll have to go in a bedpan for a while but this is a good problem to have.
He sat on the side of the bed for about 15 minutes again today. PT says they want to have him standing by the end of the week.
THANK YOU LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(ok Linda, now there's a shortage of exclamation points! :)~ )
Love,
Julie
His labs continue to be moving in a positive direction and he remains in excellent spirits!!!!
If you would like his room number please let me know - but he's still classified so if you were to ask the front desk they'd look at you like you were silly and say "there's nobody here by that name".
This absolutely made my entire week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His rectal tube and chest tube came out today also. He'll have to go in a bedpan for a while but this is a good problem to have.
He sat on the side of the bed for about 15 minutes again today. PT says they want to have him standing by the end of the week.
THANK YOU LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(ok Linda, now there's a shortage of exclamation points! :)~ )
Love,
Julie
hank said:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Julie,
I never use mine, here's last months supply.
Hank
Dear Julie,
I never use mine, here's last months supply.
Hank
Julie said:
We're still keeping a close eye on baby. She hasn't gotten any more pimples so it probably was just a pimple that I freaked out about.
(I usually don't freak out about bumps and ordinary baby stuff but with the situation at hand and my research of symptoms - I did on this one. I'm not sorry either. My kids come first.)
(I usually don't freak out about bumps and ordinary baby stuff but with the situation at hand and my research of symptoms - I did on this one. I'm not sorry either. My kids come first.)
Vaughn Tolle said:
Julie, can't blame you at all. I'd likely have done the same, had I been in your position.
I've quite a supply of exclamation points accumulated over the past year or so, which I will gladly transfer to you if needed. :-)
Mrs. VT continues to improve with the vacuum wound pump doing its thing. A scary moment or two when she realized at the rate the pump was evacuating the discharge from the wound, there would soon be no cannisters for the same left. A few telephone calls later, more on the way, and after she followed the advice to stay down and not move around so much, the volume dropped such that the one remaining cannister would not be needed until today. Add to that the "emergency" delivery of three more last night, to be followed by 10 more scheduled to arrive today, all is better, and she is up and about, following the orders to get exercise to help with the recovery process. The doctor responded to our concern over the sheer volume of liquid being removed by letting us know he wasn't concerned at this point, and an admonition to drink lots of water. All this is new to us, so we're trying to learn. In a way, it's like having the first baby; one learns on the fly, so to speak, and things which at first are disturbing one finds that the same are nothing to be concerned about when they occur again.
I've quite a supply of exclamation points accumulated over the past year or so, which I will gladly transfer to you if needed. :-)
Mrs. VT continues to improve with the vacuum wound pump doing its thing. A scary moment or two when she realized at the rate the pump was evacuating the discharge from the wound, there would soon be no cannisters for the same left. A few telephone calls later, more on the way, and after she followed the advice to stay down and not move around so much, the volume dropped such that the one remaining cannister would not be needed until today. Add to that the "emergency" delivery of three more last night, to be followed by 10 more scheduled to arrive today, all is better, and she is up and about, following the orders to get exercise to help with the recovery process. The doctor responded to our concern over the sheer volume of liquid being removed by letting us know he wasn't concerned at this point, and an admonition to drink lots of water. All this is new to us, so we're trying to learn. In a way, it's like having the first baby; one learns on the fly, so to speak, and things which at first are disturbing one finds that the same are nothing to be concerned about when they occur again.
Rox said:
Flying blind, are we VT? Scary for both of you, I'm sure. The doctor would have to be a saint if he had to deal with me (LOL), and it sounds like he's on top of things with you. Bless technology, even though it's so often confusing for those of us who are clueless.
Julie, fantastic news on MM!!! And I'm SO glad baby is okay! I was going to email you this morning and check, but saw here that the "blemish" is an "only". You're very wise in being vigilant, my friend.
Continued prayers for all!
Julie, fantastic news on MM!!! And I'm SO glad baby is okay! I was going to email you this morning and check, but saw here that the "blemish" is an "only". You're very wise in being vigilant, my friend.
Continued prayers for all!
Tracy Phillips said:
VeeTee, I never thought about it but there are no classes about being a patient.
And it's some very scary shit.
Isn't there some .org somewhere that gives lessons in being a proper patient?
There sure otta be.
And it's some very scary shit.
Isn't there some .org somewhere that gives lessons in being a proper patient?
There sure otta be.
Wendy said:
Julie,
It is completely understandable, with everything that has happened, that you would react like that. In fact, it's probably better that you DID react like that as opposed to not reacting at all - if that makes any sense :)
Vaughn, glad to hear she is doing better. I don't understand much about how the vacuum pump sealer things work (see i don't even know the name of them) so I am not going to offer any opinions on status, and will just defer to the medical experts in this case...
If everyone could please add another person to their prayers, I would greatly appreciate it. My aunt was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. she went down to the cancer treatment centers in Houston (who's name escapes me right now) for follow-up and to determine a course of action, and they have discovered that she has an extremely rare form of cancer that occurs only 1% of the time in white women (it affects predominately black and hispanic women) so we have no idea how she wound up with it. The good news is that if it has NOT spread, they should have gotten it all with her masectomy and will simply need to do some preventative chemo and radiation therapys. The bad news is two-fold - 1) it IS a recurring cancer, although they can't say when it may recur, so even if they got it all, she still will not technically be "cancer-free" and 2) if it has spread, there is not much they can do for her due to the type of cancer that she has. Right now, we are putting all our efforts into the "please don't let the cancer have spread" category. We will know the answer to that on Monday... And just to add to her misery, she had her masectomy at the end of October. At the beginning of November she was attacked by a neighbors pit bull (my aunt is about 4' 10") and was shoved into her car at about the site of the masectomy, so needless to say she has been in a considerable amount of pain since then...
It is completely understandable, with everything that has happened, that you would react like that. In fact, it's probably better that you DID react like that as opposed to not reacting at all - if that makes any sense :)
Vaughn, glad to hear she is doing better. I don't understand much about how the vacuum pump sealer things work (see i don't even know the name of them) so I am not going to offer any opinions on status, and will just defer to the medical experts in this case...
If everyone could please add another person to their prayers, I would greatly appreciate it. My aunt was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. she went down to the cancer treatment centers in Houston (who's name escapes me right now) for follow-up and to determine a course of action, and they have discovered that she has an extremely rare form of cancer that occurs only 1% of the time in white women (it affects predominately black and hispanic women) so we have no idea how she wound up with it. The good news is that if it has NOT spread, they should have gotten it all with her masectomy and will simply need to do some preventative chemo and radiation therapys. The bad news is two-fold - 1) it IS a recurring cancer, although they can't say when it may recur, so even if they got it all, she still will not technically be "cancer-free" and 2) if it has spread, there is not much they can do for her due to the type of cancer that she has. Right now, we are putting all our efforts into the "please don't let the cancer have spread" category. We will know the answer to that on Monday... And just to add to her misery, she had her masectomy at the end of October. At the beginning of November she was attacked by a neighbors pit bull (my aunt is about 4' 10") and was shoved into her car at about the site of the masectomy, so needless to say she has been in a considerable amount of pain since then...
Wendy said:
so apparently they just found the body of the missing girl from El Dorado (or at least a body that "fits the description" of the girl, and the case is now being treated as a homicide investigation)
Sad...
Sad...
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