BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Sep 14 - 03:20 PM

Good! let us know how that meeting goes.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Sep 14 - 10:37 AM

Gee golly whiz, I've just had a nice phone talk with the Executive Director and funny, Pat and I will be meeting with him and the Director of Nursing immediately after he finishes his daily meeting with the nursing staff....

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Sep 14 - 09:46 AM

What gnu said.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 14 - 04:46 AM

I can understand the shower business regarding safety policy and procedure but surely the staff could have made the simple effort of arranging to have "therapy" fit her in their schedule for that specific purpose. Glad you got the job done.

Meds? No. Unacceptable.

I hope today is a good day for you both.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: LadyJean
Date: 12 Sep 14 - 12:15 AM

I broke my arm badly enough to require surgery. Afterward, I had to see an occupational therapist. He showed me how to get on and off a toilet, which I'd already figured out how to do. He showed me how to cook something in a frying pan, which didn't work in practice. (I lived on canned beans, frozen dinners and take out until the cast came off.)

What he didn't show me was how to put on and take of a bra, which, being a D cup, I kind of needed to know, or look after my long hair. I managed. I even managed to medicate my cat with one arm in a cast. (You need both legs and a blanket, also a very good natured cat.) But he wasn't what you'd call helpful.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 11:25 PM

She's in rehab, and I'm pissed off by the attitude of the staff. I mean, she wanted a shower and was told she couldn't have one until "therapy" had determined how it was to be done? That after 2+ hours her pain meds hadn't appeared?

I've emailed the Executive Director of the facility. That's no way to run a medical place, especially when the prescription for the meds had been delivered and she'd been showering the hospital.

She got her shower -- I helped her.

If this is an example of one of the best of the facilities, what are the mediocre or bad like? Or perhaps I don't want to know.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 07:38 PM

Dont know how I missed this Mike ! You didnt say if the Pratt on the bike was apprehended - Hope he was , and that all goes well with Pat

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 06:49 PM

encouraging update.   blessings   pete.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 06:31 PM

Rap, keep us informed about Pat's BP. I hope she is able to do that move tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 06:30 PM

Great news!

Last November when I had shoulder surgery I was allowed a glass of wine with my hospital dinner - the food wasn't too bad, wine was nice, but my throat was so sore from being intubated that I could barely sip.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 04:03 PM

Not everyone is in the hospital for illness and injury. I had my first child at about 2pm. The nurses and doctor had had breaks during my four hours of labor in order to go eat their lunches. I was starving when it was all over, and asked for something to eat. "You missed lunch, dear, but here is some milk and crackers until dinner." Arrrgghhhh!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 03:34 PM

What gnu and Rap said about hospital food... my experience with it was the same. As was noted, my appetite was depressed but that was not the fault of the food.It may well be very different in very large hospitals but when I was in with pneumonia this spring my food was HOT, palatable and plentiful. At home I may have added some spices, especially hot sauce, but given the logistics within which they work I think the dieticians and kitchens do remarkably well. I tend to think that 'hospital food', 'lawyers' and 'politicians' are knee jerk words that save people from having to think. :)

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 02:45 PM

Wonderful! Give Pat our love and best wishes for a fast recovery. You take care of yourself too.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 12:53 PM

Terrific!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 12:44 PM

Excellent news!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 12:14 PM

Whoopeeee!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 10:48 AM

The neurosurgeon was just in and the transfer is ON!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 10:42 AM

If you find the hospital that has all those 'good' foods, I'm gonna get a bicycle and a blindfold..... ;>)

Anyway, so glad to hear the progress and some really upbeat news.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 09:28 AM

you didn't mention jello ...

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

The hospital food isn't TOO awful. She gets to chose from a menu that includes turkey, sirloin of beef, mashed, ice cream, pastas, sourdough bread, and even a "make your own" sandwich.

But let's face it: it's still hospital food. They don't include, say, Chateaubriand with Bernaise sauce or deep-fat-fried calamari or boudins, and Black Pudding is definitely out.

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

All the best to Pat, Rap. Hoping that her BP stays down so she can start on the path to going home well and able to get around on her own again.

rags

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

Wonderful update, Mike. Please tell Pat we're cheering her on.

gnu- well said.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 05:08 AM

Good news,Rap. More positive thoughts from Dunfermline. Charlie

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 04:50 AM

Good to hear the insurance has been sorted. Hope things move along smoothly, swiftly and successfully.

Re hospital food, if her BP is high, part of the therapy is diet. "Regular" hospital meals are prepared with a number of factors taken into account, just one of which is the lack of mobility and level of physical activity of most inmates. Ya don't feed a sedentary person baked beans and pancakes with maple slurpup due to calories/sugar and sheer bulk. If ya did, it would be a slow and possibly quite uncomfortable trip down the alimentary canal. Likewise, ya don't feed a person with high BP anything with a "normal" amount of salt so, right there, taste suffers. Hospital meals, prepared on an assembly line, are meant to be nutritious. Taste? Well, most inmates don't have a big appetite anyway.

I am sure Mike would forego sleep to prepare Pat's favourite culinary delight IF he was allowed but I doubt those in charge of her recovery would allow any deviation from the dietary regimen prescribed by the dietician.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: LadyJean
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 12:27 AM

As I said, it ought to be illegal to feed hospital food to sick people. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to a friend who brought me a post surgical box of Godivas and gave my taste buds a reason to go on living.

I likewise offer sympaties on the insurance. I hope those bozoes straigten it out, and have to eat hospital food for a month afterwards.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 10:13 PM

YAH!!!! (& boo to the general/normal behaviour of the insurance company - practicing medicine without a license - well put, Stilly)

One of my friends is in a rehab hospital at the moment with a new hip & is working diligently to get back to her normal life. A visiting friend was very surprised to be greeted in the front yard when he arrived, I forgot to ask if he got a pic of her in her zimmer frame 5 days after her op!

May Pat be soon walking to exercise sessions in her zimmer frame (or whatever)

sandras

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 09:53 PM

Goody! At about 4:30 the afternoon (MDT) I got a call that the insurance had approved the rehab! Now if her blood pressure stays down with oral medicines instead of IV ones, she moves tomorrow!

A) It will be closer for me.
B) She WANTS OUT of the hospital -- a nice place and all, but you wouldn't want to live there.
C) She WANTS rehab so she can get on with life.

(Not necessarily in that order.)

Oh, yeah -- her hair is growing back and the staples come out next week. A CAT scan will be done before the staples come out. When I left her she'd eaten some bites of dinner (let's face it, it's hospital food) and was going to try to get some sleep. If all goes well it'll be a Big Day tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: kendall
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 08:03 PM

I don't do prayer as such, but I do send positive energy to both of you.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 05:09 PM

Pat's a very lucky woman, Mike. Hope it doesn't come to that though.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 03:41 PM

Nope, not today. Her blood pressure is still too high; she'd boomerang right back. But I went to the rehab facility and told them that even if the insurance kept denying that I wanted her there and if need be I'd pay for it. Cash money. I mean, what's another mortgage or other debt when it's for her? (I'm serious.)

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 12:08 PM

Two months in a rehab hospital did wonders for me after nearly a month in a coma and some organs shutting down. Of course I still needed help when I got home and needed to push myself to continue the exercises and increase them, but without the rehab hospital I might have landed in a nursing home for 6 months or more.

Good luck with her treatment and continuing improvement.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 11:50 AM

Thanks for the update, we will continue to worry on your behalves!

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: gnu
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 11:48 AM

"Misreading" saves $. Standard practice. Insurance on the car and truck went up $66 today from the time I hung up the phone to when pulled out my credit card at their office... about a half hour. Because of all the applied discounts that went along with adding a new vehicle, the collision premium had gone down on both vehicles so... blah blah blahshit.

Just glad it's been sorted, Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 11:35 AM

The trouble with insurance companies is that they practice medicine without a license.

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 11:24 AM

if any good can come of your problem... my job currently involves approvals for a series of public multi-use trails that connect to our statewide system of trails along the Erie Canal. Since this means that the users will be pedestrians and cyclists as well as disabled folks, I previously raised the issue to controling the speed of the bikers.

I just used your misfortune as a cautionary tale with some suggestions for ways to perhaps help prevent future mishaps on these new trails. Different circumstances, but a common issue... and sometimes isolated areas that would not get the quick attention your wife got.

good luck with Pat's recovery...

Subject: RE: BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 10:54 AM

Hope that insurance is sorted now.

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: olddude
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 10:35 PM

All my prayers