The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89103   Message #1745083
Posted By: jimmyt
21-May-06 - 09:41 PM
Thread Name: Sitting At The Kitchen Table
Subject: RE: BS: Sitting At The Kitchen Table
Just wanted to check in to say hi to you all. Jayne is at the airport in Atlanta getting on a flight to Cleveland Ohio where her sister is presently undergoing extensive tests. She has Giant Cell Arteritis, an extremely rare condition that sometimes (usually actually) causes blindness and kidney failure leading to death. In her case, no kidney involvement, no ocular involvement, but the irony is she has lost complete blood supply to the main artery to her arms, the subclavian. BOth sides, both arms sort of dying on the vine with no real reason or great cure. She lost her husband a year ago, but shortly before he died of a sudden heart attack, he bought her a grand piano because the only real joy she gets is playing the piano. Now the piano sits quietly in the livingroom and she can't hold a spoon or button a button. SHe is scheduled for a surgery this Thursday where the doctors will put a length of artificial teflon artery in her arm to see if it is successful. Keep us in your prayers or thoughts if you will. Crazy world we live in, but glad I have the kitchen table to drop this stuff on.