BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 10:16 AM

artbrooks... that was a gift.. I saw it 15 minutes ago and decided not to claim it.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Micca
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 10:57 AM

Art before you accept BillDs offer check the meaning of the word "gift" in a German dictionary!

"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes"

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 10:59 AM

I saw it at 09:28 AM. I figured Terry would nab it.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 12:11 PM

But never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 12:24 PM

Me ?? I was involved in other things , though IF I had been in here at the time I would have grabbed it !

Still thinking good things for Sev though !!

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: GUEST,Emily
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 01:34 PM

Just received word from the hospital and Severn that they will be releasing him home or a temporary facility tomorrow. He is a little apprehensive about being ready to go home but they are arranging for PT and home care for his wounds, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 01:37 PM

That is amazing. Thank you for the update.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: maeve
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 01:38 PM

Thank you, Emily. Glad to hear Sev will have help caring for his wounds.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 01:47 PM

That IS amazing. Thanks, Emily. I hope he gets someone in whom he likes and trusts to take care of his wounds. The personality, rapport with, and skill of a home health aide or nurse can really make a difference in recovery, not just physical but otherwise, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Tig
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 01:48 PM

That's great news! Not only does it mean they are happy with the way you are healing Sev (though you may not FEEL that good yet) it also means that you are away from all those sick people with their nasty bugs.

It also means you can heal at your own rate (probably faster) and not be woken up early if you don't want to be.

Lots of BIG HUGS
Tig
xxxxx

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: artbrooks
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 02:12 PM

I'd say - and not only because my wife works in rehab - that he'd probably be better off in a transitional care facility for a week or two. Home health is generally there for only an hour or two a day, and my (unfortunate) experience with them is that many don't have a super-high level of technical skills. Burn care is hard.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 02:59 PM

Besides, look at his record.

Stick him in a temporary "facility" and do it quickly, with facility. Right now he has all his faculties, or many of them, and a facile hand will help him keep what he has.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 04:37 PM

AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 04:43 PM

Well, then, SINS, I dare'snt comment on facile hands that don't know what the other hand is doing. Or who.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 05:19 PM

Regardless of faculties or facilities, I think artbrooks has it down, factually, as in fact he speaks from second-hand experience.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: artbrooks
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 05:42 PM

And, for that, I present a present of the sound of one hand clapping.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 06:02 PM

You can't get the clap from one hand. Of course, you never know where that hand has been, so, maybe.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 06:14 PM

Surely, then an actual ovation, as a matter of fact, might produce the clap en masse?

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 06:19 PM

Les masse must be in a very excited mood, non?

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 06:31 PM

Wouldn't less mass be either a smaller crowd or fewer church services? Oops, with less mass we'd have less gravity and we'd all float aw

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 06:38 PM

I forget how that one goes...

The mass of the ass is equal to the square of the hair by the sine of the angle of the dangle?

Is that close?

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 06:57 PM

As the young lady said to the Scotsman: "I dinna like the gleam in your eye nor the tilt o' your kilt."

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 07:03 PM

Sev... if you can get any You Tube, here's a lullaby at bedtime that I know you will Sad news. She taught a lot of people a lot of things.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 07:06 PM

Okay... somebody is messing with my posts. Fix it... fix it now.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 07:09 PM

Lullaby?

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 07:11 PM

Whatever.

Hang tough buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 07:12 PM

I'll try again... appreciate.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 07:14 PM

Oh dear... oh my... maybe I did cut and paste incorrectly...

hehehehe... no pun intended...

Sleep well, Sev.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: artbrooks
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 07:23 PM

From what I remember of Ms. Chambers, putting you to sleep was not one of the things she was noted for.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 08:26 PM

Well, Art... wouldn't have taken her long to make me sleepy.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Genie
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 08:29 PM

I'm with Art, Sev.   It's good news that you're healing fast enough for them to kick you out of that nasty ol' hospital with the germs and all (and people waking you up every hour or so, e.g., to give you a sleeping pill), but rehab at home can be difficult, especially without 24-hour care available. If they can't let you recoup in a rehab center for a while (given the way our US "health care system" works), I do hope you have lots of people who can come by as needed to help you out with things at home - including the PT and OT people.

Does Maryland allow medical marijuana? And would that help anyway?

I hope our horrible puns are making you feel right at home in the meantime.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 08:36 PM

Severn doesn't smoke at all. He can't drink alcohol or eat much carb/sugar anymore either. Don't you people remember any of this??????

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 09:43 PM

Yeah, we do Sorch. But some of us figure if we remind him of his inability to eat chocolate, drink booze or smoke a joint, it will take his mind off his pain.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 10:06 PM

Jaysus, Mary and Joseph.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 10:22 PM

My mom, dad, and brother!!

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 06:38 AM

amazing changes in the week I've been offline - lotsa' atrocious puns & reports of Severn's improving health & examples of his improving posts!

keep getting well & feeling better

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Janie
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 06:50 AM

Just coming in to say hi, Sev, and to say I check the thread daily to see how you are faring.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 07:42 AM

Hate to be practical but has anyone cleaned Sev's kitchen since the accident?I suspect that is not a mess he should be coming home to. Hope he goes to a emporary facility where he can get round the clock care. But I am still amazed that he is ready to leave the Burn Center at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 08:08 AM

Great news but I was wondering the same thing as Sins........And I agree on the short term facility. Much better for a few weeks.

Good Luck Sev.....it's about time you had some.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 08:23 AM

Look. Keep your head down, never volunteer. The sergeant WILL chew you out, but don't take it personally. Keep your shoes shined and your rifle cle...wait. You said "graft", like in "skin graft."

Sorry, I thought you said "draft", like in "Army."

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 12:37 PM

Sev, the hospital (and more importantly the insurance company) have a responsibility to provide a safe discharge. For anyone who lives alone this means that they have the option to discharge to a temporary care facility to assist in the transition. Having friends stop in is not the same as care when you needed it. If you ask there is a good chance it can be provided.

Take care of yourself -- for you and for all of us as well...
Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 01:06 PM

Tossed your cookie, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 01:49 PM

I have debated posting my comments on "the move", and I have discussed same by PM with several Mudcatters. I have come to the conclusion that, even though it's none of my business, and even though I may be posting upsetting comments, it is better that I post. Not for Severn's sake in particular, but for all those who may find themselves in similar circumstances.

I will try to be as brief as possible, so many details will be left out.

SOMEtimes, medical care providers want to "move" a patient and they may have many and varied reasons.

The patient may be under the influence of drugs and/or, more importantly, under the influence of not wanting to upset the medical care givers. Not upsetting the apple cart extends to the advocate(s) for and to the family(s) of the patient.

My experiences indicate that a thorough discussion involving the patient, the patient's advocate(s) and family(s), transitional care facilty personnel or extramural care personnel, and the patient's doctor (GP, family doc) is needed.

Ya gotta make sure everyone is on the same page. I have seen screwups that should not have happened. I lost my business because of such a screwup.

Having said all that, my post and others are no more than conjecture as no details have been posted. I am sure Sev and his advocate(s) and family(s) will make sure he is okay.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 02:09 PM

Good thoughts and well intended gnu. I think many of us are concerned. Severn was expecting a six week stay in hospital. Proper nutrition will be critical to his healing. Infection still has to be a worry. That singed kitchen is at the top of my list.
Mary, in fuss-budgety Mother Mode hoping she is not offending anyone.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 02:22 PM

SINS... fuss-budgety Mother Mode.

I have personal knowledege of same. Thanks again, Mother Mary. Don't ever change.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 03:30 PM

That was the principal of the grade school I attended: Mother Merry. The school was Sts. Delilah and Jezebel Grade School and was taught by the Sisters of the Divine Figure. There were Sister Trixie La Boom, Sister Venus en Fourrures, Sister Justine de la Vertue, Sister Juliette les Prospérités and others who molded my mind and those of so many other children.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: gnu
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 03:43 PM

Rapaire... "...molded my mind..."

I got a pointer across the knuckles from Sister. Molded my opinion.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 03:47 PM

Trixie and Venus? You sure they were Sisters?:-)

Since you all brought it up...I cannot read/hear "Mother Mary" without this coming into my head: Clickety.

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 03:53 PM

Cann't do it at work. But I had to wonder if Rap's school was in fact the birthplace of the Temple of the Golden Globes????

Subject: RE: BS: Severn Injured...Good thoughts, please
From: Emma B
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 04:14 PM

Good news!

I spoke to Severn just as he was about to be transferred to a rehab facility; when the nurse heard I was ringing from the UK she let him remain for a few more minutes to chat.

He will post the address here as soon as he is able and says to thank everyone for the wonderful cards from all over the place.