BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept

Subject: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Sep 14 - 11:27 PM

Yesterday my wife Pat left a session of deep-tissue massage and was bashed by a bicyclist barreling along at (another cyclist estimated) ten to fifteen mph -- on the sidewalk. The therapist's husband was called -- he's an EMT -- and eventually seven deputy sheriffs and six EMTs were gathered round. The question was asked, "Do you want to be transported to the hospital?" was answered with my very firm "YES!"

I beat the ambulance there.

Contusions, bruises, minor skin scratches, a badly sprained left wrist...and a left-side subdural hematoma (spelled differently in the UK). Headaches, vomiting, and the last of the Big Three she does NOT want: seizures.

Cranial surgery is tomorrow. Prayers would be nice and if you don't pray waft healing thoughts her way if you get a chance. 5 to 14 days postop in the horsespittle and a could of months layed up laying about.

This blows our plans to attend a family reunion and our nephew's wedding.

Gracias a ustedes.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Sep 14 - 11:46 PM

very sorry to hear all this. i hope she makes a full recovery. best wishes to you both.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Sep 14 - 11:52 PM

The sooner the surgery, the better. Excellent call to take her to the hospital. I've seen this up close and personal with my friend Susan - who I am happy to say - is just about 100%. At least her friends and family think so. It can take a while, a lot depending on the injuries, but you keep healing, it's not like after X amount of time that's all you'll get.

My best to both you and Pat.

Maggie

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Janie
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 12:17 AM

Got a message when I tried to post a little earlier, Rap, that Max had taken Mudcat off-line so posted a pm to facebook, Mike. Won't repeat it all here other than to say holding Pat and you in my thoughts.

You two have not had an easy ride these past few years. May the road ahead get much smoother.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 01:16 AM

You got it, Rap. My best thoughts go out to you and your wife.

Don Firth

P. S. I have some thoughts on irresponsible twerps on bicycles, having encountered a few, but more of that later.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: vectis
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 01:47 AM

Sorry to hear this Rap. All the best to Pat and a candle lit for a full and swift recovery. XX

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: olddude
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 01:58 AM

I am with you my brother. Let me know if I can help in any way. Praying for her.. Dan

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 02:29 AM

Mike, I'm sending everything I can with all the energy I can muster. The best to you and Pat.

Elva B.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Megan L
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 02:53 AM

Keeping you both in my thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: fat B****rd
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 03:16 AM

I'm sending all my very best thoughts to you, Rap. All the very best from Charlie.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: gnu
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 03:45 AM

Ditto all of the above. Thoughts and prayers continue from here, Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: maeve
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 04:51 AM

My Truelove and I are holding you both in prayer, Mike. Thanks for your kindness to us.
Wafting, turbo-charging,

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 04:54 AM

good wishes heading to Pat from me

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 08:18 AM

Sending all the good thoughts I can muster to you both.

Jennie

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 08:27 AM

all the best... thankfully medicine has gotten much better with dealing with these kinds of traumas

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 09:50 AM

I'm praying for you both, Rap.

My great-nephew suffered a subdural hematoma (s.h.) during a difficult birth. His surgery went smoothly. I'm hoping Pat's does too. Knowing that doctors have dealt with many s.h's gives me hope.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 10:45 AM

A damned nuisance the shitheel didn't leave home a few minutes earlier. Sending my best glow Pat's way, Rapp!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 10:50 AM

Good thoughts being sent your way.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Leadbelly
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 11:09 AM

Rapparee, best wishes to your wife and soon recovery...

Manfred

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Lighter
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 11:44 AM

Just noticed. Shocking. Please accept my sincere best wishes for her speedy recovery.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 11:54 AM

Oh cripes, Rap! That is scary... you KNOW you have good wishes from me and everyone who knows you.. and many who have only met you online.

I/we will be watching for news... and wishing fervently for good news.
♥♥♥

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 12:09 PM

How awful, I will think of you both! And from a massage session makes it worse, somehow. Horrible.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 12:13 PM

Hi Rap

All my love and best wishes for a full and early recovery for Pat.

Meanwhile Prayers and healing thoughts are wafting towards you and Pat.

Regards

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 12:14 PM

with a prayer for a smooth operation and steady recovery. blessings   pete.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 12:34 PM

Keep us posted, Rap. Meantime, prayers for a simple and complete recovery.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 02:19 PM

Prayers for your wife Pat and for you, too, Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 05:07 PM

Just seen this thread. All good thoughts coming from Maine for both of you my friend.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 05:36 PM

Surgery went well, but I've been sitting in the ICU waiting room for a couple of hours because herbblood pressure is way too high. They're IVing some BP medicine that will bring it down.

Well I wasn't going to be able to make Getaway anyway....

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 05:49 PM

hmmmppff! We will have use an inanimate music stand, I suppose! Not the same!

take care...

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 05:49 PM

It'll be a day or two before she's out of there, get some sleep if you can.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 06:12 PM

Best wishes to both of you, Mike. I hope you can get some sleep and have a good book to read.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 07:11 PM

Just found this; you now have a couple of us in Michigan pulling for Pat big time.

          Dean

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 10:35 PM

I have sympathy with the idea of bicyclists who want a cheap form of transportation that's non-polluting, but—!!

A few years ago when I was still driving, I damn near got one when the light turned green and I started to move. He shot the red light and I just about clipped his rear wheel.

In front of a convenience store near where I live (I roam the nearby neighborhood in an electric wheelchair and I am a very careful driver, especially when I have to travel on the sidewalk with regular pedestrians), I have seen little old ladies with shopping bags, children with popsicles in their hands, suited businessmen opening a fresh pack of cigarettes while emerging from the store knocked flat by cretins on bicycles. And the cyclist beats a hasty retreat. He knows his ass is grass if he stays around long enough to see if the person is injured.

Seattle is an excellent city for curb-ramps, intended for wheelchair users and mothers pushing strollers, but I have been roundly sworn at by cretins on bicycles—and teenaged dimwits on skateboards—for being on a curb-ramp and interrupting their careen down a sidewalk among normal humans. They seem to be under the impression that the city put them there for their exclusive use.

Almost as bad are people wandering briskly down the sidewalk engrossed in a cell-phone conversation—or texting.

Sorry! But I get steamed sometimes.

Rap, my best wished to you and yours and I'm praying for a speedy recovery.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: maeve
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 11:09 PM

We'll be here as long as you need us, Mike and Pat.
Thank you for keeping us posted- rest and sleep when you can. We can catch up with your journey when you have the time and inclination to tell us how it's going...but take care of both of you first.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 11:24 PM

She's in the ICU and with the bandages on her head looks like a human Q-tip. She was sleeping (under the influence of morphine) when I left...not for long, as they have to "check her neurals" ever hour or two.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: maeve
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 11:59 PM

One step, deep breaths...a long day and night.

May your hope grow bright and your humor poke you every once in a while- "...human Q-tip" indeed! ;)

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: LadyJean
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 12:06 AM

I saw my mother through 3 hip replacements. (The second one didn't work.) A mastectomy and the removal of a malignancy on her lungs. I've been through that particular kind of hell more than once, and so I said a prayer for you too. I hope everything is good. I hope you have a lot of friends to back you up. I hope your wife recovers, though it usually takes a while to get over major surgery, and the brain is kind of a biggy, unless you're a politician.

I will add that I think it should be illegal to feed hospital food to sick people. One should also be able to stick that woman who keeps taking blood samples with something sharp.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Bert
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 02:30 AM

Healing thoughts wafting her way. Love to you both.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery Tommorow
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 05:15 AM

may the human Q-tip soon lose her turban & continue her healing

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 05:25 AM

I hope it has all worked out well. Bless you both.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 05:36 AM

Continued thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 05:59 AM

Boggles the mind that, there were so many paraprofessionals standing around asking a person with those injuries and a head injury to boot if she want to go to hospital?

Hope the sheriff's department investigates and throws the book at that cyclist. They'd do it in the UK. No cycling permitted on pavements (sidewalks) per the highway code.

Hope she heals quickly with no lasting bad effects. Take care of yourself too, Rap.    No good to her, if you make yourself ill with exhaustion and worry.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: jacqui.c
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 07:41 AM

I'll go along with that - make sure you look after yourself Rap. Good thoughts still coming from Maine.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Janie
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 07:57 AM

Morning Rap and Pat,

Thinking of you.

J

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 09:46 AM

Lots of whiskey and Ambien!

Well, no. I'm not that dumb, although I have awakened much later than I had hoped...I'd wanted to be at the horsespittle by now.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 09:52 AM

maybe your body needed a bit more rest than you thought it did?

sandra (awaiting your next report)

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: maeve
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 09:55 AM

I'm glad you slept. Thinking of you both at the horsespittle and finding cause for smiles.
Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 10:35 AM

Hoping for the best!

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: sciencegeek
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 10:37 AM

here in the states, going to a hospital is strictly voluntary if you are not unconscious or in some form of custody. And why you can check yourself out against medical advice.   

so when Reagan threw out patients from mental hospitals, they couldn't generally be compelled to return later... they got to live in the streets and "upset" their "neighbors". street people don't usually have long lifespans... at least not here in the north where winters are fatal.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 11:16 AM

The human q-tip is a great visual.

Still thinking healing thoughts! Thanks for the updates,

-Mrr