BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 11:38 AM

Sleep is good for both of you! More prayers from Rhode Island are on the way.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 11:52 AM

+++

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 10:55 PM

Moved to a regular room for post-surgery patients this afternoon. She had dinner of a half a piece of toast and some iced tea. BP is down into the upper normal range and her temp has remained at about 100F, or about where the surgeon expected it to be.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 01:56 AM

Good news! Thanks for taking time to let us know.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 03:17 AM

Good for her! Sounds like she must be almost as tough as her significant other.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 04:19 AM

Glad to hear it, Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 04:50 AM

what Eddie said.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: maeve
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 08:01 AM

Thanks for your update- progress! I salute you both- and Pat's medical team.
Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 09:18 AM

Thank you,Rap. Still sending best thoughts from Dunfermline.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: skarpi
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 10:47 AM

all the best to you both ..

from Skarpi .

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 10:49 AM

Yup... good news! Tea & toast sounds like a fine start to full recovery.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 11:24 AM

Hope she'll be eating steak or whatever she likes soon!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Janie
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 11:31 AM

Very glad for both of you! May each day be better than the last until she is home and feeling completely whole and healthy again - well, as whole and healthy as any of us feel at our ages:>)

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Bert
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 12:44 PM

More love on its way. and it is Horse Piddle, not Horse Spittle.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Don Firth
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 01:01 PM

Excellent, Rap!

(And I always thought it was "horse pistol....")

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 02:51 PM

Me too, Don. That's what Mom always said. Accents & pronunciations keep us hopping.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 03:28 PM

So glad to hear this. Still sending the good stuff your way.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Crowhugger
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 03:43 PM

All best healing thoughts for her, Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Little Robyn
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 05:03 PM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Healing thought coming Pat's way.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 05:34 PM

That's good to hear! Hopefully Pat will be soon up, about, and quilting.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 07:30 PM

I'm a couple days late to this, but white light, healing thoughts, prayers and anything else I can muster heading your way.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 07:42 PM

Glad to hear, and it's hostable, with the O not pronounced like host but like hospital. Keep on improving overall!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 07:49 PM

I too am glad to hear she's recovering.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: maeve
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 08:51 PM

May the moonlight allow you both to sleep and to heal. I'll look in again in the morning.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: olddude
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 09:34 PM

Wonderful news my brother awesome

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: maeve
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 07:41 AM

Good morning, Mike and Pat.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 09:18 AM

It's whorespittle.

If she'd just dye her remaining hair bright blue or flaming mauve she'd be fine. Twenty staples in her head provide the body piercings.

Now it's waiting time. Time to recover her strength. Time to start recovering her stamina. Time to let the wind blow free...oops, that's a folk song. Time to sow and a time to...no, that's the bible and Pete Seeger.

Anyway, they had her walking in the hall yesterday, using a walker and someone hanging onto a belt. Her left eye is swollen shut, but cold wash cloths and ice packs are helping. Bruising and injuries all over her body, quite literally from her right big toe to the top of the left side of her head.

Neurosurgeon: BA, Yale; MD, Loyola of Chicago; Internship, Mayo Clinic; Residentcy, Cleveland Clinic; Fellowship, Royal Melbourne Hospital in Oz (he's friends with Glinda the Good); appropriate diplomate and fellow. If you don't know US medical schools, this is all very good...the Saud family's clinic of choice is that place in Cleveland (right down the street from my graduate school!). How he and some other doctors ended up in Pocatello, Idaho is a long, sordid story of money, sex, power, broken promises, and international wheeling and dealing.

Yes, international -- the Raheem brothers run one of the finest kidney centers in the Pacific Northwest. They are from Pakistan, Muslim, and couldn't be more highly regarded in the community (by all but the maniacal very few who can't be pleased by anything).

True story: I was sitting in Sam's Gun Shop, waiting to talk with Sam (ex-Special Forces, Thai-American, PhD in civil engineering -- the gun shop is his retirement "hobby") when a Hispanic-looking man and three young men came out of the indoor-shooting-range part. The man started talking with Sam, then turned to me and said, "Where do I know you from?" I'd caught on and replied, "Your office." He said, "You should be wearing support stockings, your legs are slightly swollen" (I was wearing shorts). Yup, Ol' Doc Faheem -- in pointy-toed cowboy boots, slim cut jeans, "Western" shirt, with his two oldest sons and a nephew from NYC. Ever eeen a Pakistani-American nephrologist hitch up his gunbelt (prior to locking the pistol, etc. up)? It really, truly, looked like a scene from "High Noon," except that he was totin' an Olympic-grade shootin' iron and not the traditional "Peacemaker."

Pat laughed when I told her and wondered with others in the store might have thought.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 10:14 AM

LOL Rap. Thanks for the update on Mrs Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 11:30 AM

Wonderful that you have good health care out there!

From our experience of a subdural hematoma, it takes longer than we think for the brain to heal after an episode like this. Robin and I had to chuckle when they gave him "tests" to see if it was getting better. The tests were fine for someone with an IQ of 100 or thereabouts. But they certainly do not tell us anything about how the poor brain that had been functioning at about 150 IQ is doing. Four years down the path, we figure it took over 2 years before he was functioning at his previous level of brain power and energy. Now, he is more like the energizer bunny and forgets to remember that he needs to rest - before his body and brain just quit for a day or two.

So do not feel discouraged if it takes longer than you think it "should". Pat is also suffering from PTSD, and will for quite a while. Keep that in mind. For yourself as well.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 11:44 AM

One step at a time, with or without a walker!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 11:49 AM

good to read of the steady progress    blessings   pete.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 12:56 PM

Thanks, Mike!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 06:24 PM

Ditto SRS big time!

"Pat laughed when I told her and wondered with others in the store might have thought." Man, you owe me a facial tissue.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Janie
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 08:24 PM

I'm still learning how to use a smartphone and adjust to a small screen, much less a touch screen, so not able to offer useful comments regarding the lay-out/buttons, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Janie
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 08:27 PM

errr....wrong thread. Sorry. What I meant to post here, and thought I did just a minute or two prior, was to say hurray for continued good news.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 10:28 PM

She may -- MAY -- go to a rehab facility tomorrow. A good one, because I've not only checked the published inspections statistics on the joint but I've asked friends in medicine here who know.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: olddude
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 10:35 PM

All my prayers

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 11:24 PM

Us'n's is rootin' for yore gal, Bookman.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 03:53 AM

Ya kin count me in on that there too.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: GUEST,Sapper still sans cookie
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 09:53 AM

Ayeup! I'm not on here as often as I ought, so just caught up with this.

You've both had a horrendous experience and I hope your other half is still on the mend.

You're probably still at the state your bum is still twitching every time the phone rings when you're at home, but all the best to both of you.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 10:53 AM

You'll see a lot of progress there, I'm sure. Those places are amazing.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 11:29 AM

Glad things are going as smoothly as possible.

YO SAPPER! Long time no see. Hope yer doin well, buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: GUEST,Rapparee
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 01:47 PM

Lime jello. Force fed. LIME jello...blobs of it all over....

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 03:39 PM

Call in a Seal incursion! They HATE lime jello. And, they are armed and DANgerous.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 05:25 PM

Mom's rehab place was called Woodbine but she called it Hellbane... humor is valuable! Thanks for the updates!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 06:56 PM

It was our experience that personal items of any value were liable to go walkabout. Especially at the larger more open facility that my friend spent time in after the insurance stopped paying for the first one.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 07:31 PM

Lime jello, lime jello
I know you of old,
You've robbed me of good taste
And an aftertaste of mold..

Rehab tomorrow, if we can get the insurance straightened out

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 05:08 AM

Oh dear! I hope the insurance company is not giving you grief.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 09:17 AM

The insurance people "misread" the hospital notes by ignoring the part about "recommend skilled post-hospital care." My care would not be very skilled, but it would be caring.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 09:24 AM

good luck in sorting that out

sandra