BS: My Wife's Having Brain Surgery 5 Sept

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: 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: 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: 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: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 12:56 PM

Thanks, Mike!

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 11:52 AM

+++

~S~

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: gnu
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 05:36 AM

Continued thoughts and prayers.

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 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 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: 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.