LilyFestre-Mommy+Daddy+Baby...now on to Life!

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 07:43 AM

Thanks, again, Pete! Just keep giving Michelle our abundant love- hope she can feel it! Keep taking care of yourself, too.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 07:25 AM

Husband here again,

Was pretty tired so I did not post last night. She was in good spirits yesterday. She is eating and drinking good. I walked with her up and down the halls. She is on some good pain meds so she is sleeping a lot. We talked and think it's best if people wait to Monday afternoon to call so she can get her rest. The weather is suppose to be bad today so I am not sure if I will make it down. Her mom is there so I will post what I am told tonight if I do not make it down.

Take care,

Pete

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc wel
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 05:21 AM

I was at a festival this weekend & came back to the good news.

hugs to Michelle (gentle ones & only when appropriate) & Pete.

I never thought to take one of my multitude of teddies to hospital last year. Last week I had my 12 month CT scan for my cancer op last year & only scar tissue can be seen - apart from the very interesting stuff like bones & other bits that belong there!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 10 - 03:34 AM

Apropos of nothing, here's a Paula Poundstone routine. Good for a few chuckles. :)

(I'm up late, drank too much caffeine this evening).

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 05:45 PM

You do have a way with words when speaking of delicate matters, esp., SRS!*bg**

Mine was done the same way, but I don't remember any goatee, nor does Rog!LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 05:05 PM

That's what the bear is there for, to hold on tight.

Story on myself, and don't hurt yourself laughing:

I had surgery in early fall, right after the height of swimming season, and of course one wants to keep the pubic from being public, so I'd trimmed and edged the delta down to a short half-moon. My surgery was vaginal, so they did a trim upward from down below. When I got a look at myself in my first shower I know the glow of embarrassment must have shown through the curtain, and I could imagine the operating room chuckle at the short goatee the prep nurses left in place, just like in Playboy. Oy.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 03:13 PM

Ah laughing ain't so bad..........but don't sneeze.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: alanabit
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 03:13 PM

Thanks for the update. Here is another hoping you see off that cancer and get on with living normally. Best wishes to both of you.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:29 PM

The most painful part of that first walk is the five o'clock shadow. OUCH!
Sorry if that made you laugh. Laughing hurts too.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 01:03 PM

Thanks for the update Pete.

Michelle - I am so glad that the surgery went well. Remember that we are all here and watching your progress.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: Peace
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 12:52 PM

Sometimes a guy's prayers ARE answered.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 12:46 PM

I missed this thread completely! Darn.

Thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 12:29 PM

It's a bright sunny day here today--that's a great mood lifter. I hope it's bright for your part of PA. Michelle, get up and walk around a little. They put wheels on those poles if you're still attached to anything. My daughter complained that I kept making her hike through the floor after her spleen surgery, but with each walk she felt better.

My only other advice, if you're wearing a hospital gown - Mind the Gap!

;-D

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 10:48 AM

Thanks, so much, Pete, for taking the time to update us. Take care of yourself, ok?

Still holding Michelle and all of us in a circle of light .

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 10:20 AM

Pete,
Thank you for the update. It was kind of you to take the time given all you have on your plate. Michelle is physically and emotionally spent right about now. But the cancer is gone and the chemo will slam the door hard.
SRS - thanks for the link. Michelle is going to be OK.
That is good news.
January 16 and I am wishing 2010 away already. All you sick people get well NOW!
Love and good thoughts, Michelle,
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 09:34 AM

Its all good news and thanks Pete for bringing it. I know both of you needed some real info and now you know........Knowing is always better!!!

I know......then again, I ain't always better......'course that's a personal problem and one the Docs can't fix............well, maybe a shrink.........................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 08:44 AM

Stage 2, as far as camcer goes, is a good thing so I guess a...

...hooray is in order here!!! Hooray!!!

Now, Pete, here's the hard part... Ya' gotta do all the housework and cookin' and other yucky womenz things fir a couple weeks and, oh yeah... Ya' gotta be nice, too... Sorry, pal... Thouhgt you'd rather hear that from another guy... Kinda hard takin' them kinds of things from a womenz 'cause they sound too much like orders... Know what I mean???

Anyway, just do 'um an' yer lovely wife will love ya' for it an' all the goopy stuff and...

...tell her that all the Mudders is wishin' her a speedy recovery and a happy gardening season... Oh yeah... She can get all her seeds ordered while she's recoverin'... It's time anyway for them...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST,WYS-out
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 08:03 AM

SRS-- good. I'd brain-farted.

Let's slow down on what we think the docs said/meant and what is ahead for LF. It's early days, yet. Next challenge she is most likely to face is path report-- the waiting for the more in-depth post-surg path-- and the immediate post-surg practical stuff (as I know many of you know lots about).

Michelle's own posts (when she gets back to them) will be our best guide as to how she needs us to respond, and I think it will be most realistic to expect her to be all over the map as she settles into whatever treatment plan the docs send her home with. Small steps.


Pete-- please, be extra careful with the long drives back and forth. And if you are not already boarding the critters, we can highly recommend the lady near you at Woodbine. If you can use any other kind of help, please know that you are welcome to contact Hardi thru the parish office or home phone, both of which I believe give his cell#.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc wel
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 04:34 AM

Good to hear from Michelle's Pete. SRS that info link... thought provoking, scary and damned good to know.

Still here wishing healing thoughts at Michelle.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 02:09 AM

best wishes...and hope you come thru with flying colors...

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:47 PM

Michelle has my phone numbers, and has a bonus number that was a typo (someone named Stephanie, she tells me). Oops!

They're all going to be so wrung out for a while.

I think I need to get out another bear to keep the first one company. Actually, I have a lovely large rabbit here that would work like one of those big long pillows used for sleeping alongside someone, for resting a leg on, etc. He'd like to come down off the top of the cabinet that appeared in a recent declutter thread.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 11:30 PM

Good to hear the recov. rm news.

Hardi also got a call from Bonnie (still near hosp), pretty upbeat. Plans underway to try to go see Michelle, maybe Monday-- Bonnie and she are aware weekend is overfull with a big funeral we must attend tmrw before the Sat. svc.

Husband-- SRS wanted to know if Michelle desires a phone call. If she wants that and has her cell with her, pls follow up with Stilly River Sage. (I think she does not have M's cell number nor does M have SRS's.)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:54 PM

How is Cancer Staged.

FYI.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:49 PM

Sending lots of white light and positive thoughts.

Arghh! Let's get everybody cancer-free -- this is getting a bit overwhelming.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:43 PM

Thank you, Pete. I know how big a shock this is for you, also, and we appreciate your taking the time to fill us in. Take care of yourself. I'm glad they caught it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Surgery UPDATE comfort etc welcome
From: maeve
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:24 PM

Thank you, Pete. I'm checking this thread before bed. Best wishes for a smooth recovery...for both of you.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:09 PM

Thank you, Pete. Really appreciate your letting us know.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 09:05 PM

Husband here.

I just got home. Everything went OK. They do not have a room for her yet so she was still in the recovery room when I left sleeping. She had stag 2 ovarian cancer and uterine cancer. They are confident that they got it all but want to follow up with some chemo to make sure.

Pete

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST,WYS-out
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 07:51 PM

Still no calls or voicemails here. I can tell you tho that her last voicemail, from ydy afternoon EST when she left word on the surgery time, was very upbeat, well-breathed, and looking fwd to being "cancer free by this time tomorrow" (which is now today and hours ago).

Of course, flowers are always appropriate and can be delievered promptly-- if anyone cares to send them who already has the hospital info-- and I'm sure that she would appreciate knowing in a tangible way about the recovery ward party going on already. I suspect she'd rather not have missed that-- and she does love to decorate.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: ClaireBear
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 07:48 PM

From my experience I can add that it seemed too much trouble to look at flowers, read cards, turn over...in fact, about all I could manage was to listen to music on my Walkman (it'd be an iPOD these days I guess), which helped drown out the hospital sounds. (They stuck me in a maternity ward for my cancer-related hysterectomy, so as I lay there in physical and mental distress I was surrounded by new mothers and streams of their jubile visitors.)

I was in for about a week.

Does she have an iPOD, or, if it would help, is there someone who could lend her one? I don't have one (still using the Walkman) plus I'm too far away, but maybe someone back there could help?

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 07:34 PM

I can tell you from personal experience that Michelle will probably be virtually knocked out for the next twenty four hours and will be unlikely to be taking any phone calls, unless things have changed dramatically in the last six years.

Good thoughts coming from Boston.

Jacqui.c on Kendall's session on the laptop.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 06:12 PM

Never came across those sets of images. I have kids in the house, so I'm more likely to see stuff like this.

I wouldn't call before late tomorrow at the soonest, and only then if we haven't heard anything. It was important enough to get her in for this vital surgery that no one said much to her about the first couple of days after such surgery. But it isn't any fun, and calls from relative strangers, even well-meaning ones, probably should wait a while.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welc
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 05:35 PM

Forgot to mention that at 12:30 UK time (7:30 EST) My outlook popped up a reminder to think on Michelle and the surgical team. Conveniently my lunch time so I could dedicate about 45 solid mintues to this project.

I searched for google images of healing thoughts and healing hands.

Every good one I found, I contemplated and wished it into Michelle's mind and the surgeons hands.

http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/8/5/9/f_healinghandm_ab57f27.jpg

http://www.fredpayne.com/healing/images/pages/thoughts_are_things.jpg

http://www.massagemag.com/cms/images/stories/healingpowerofbreath.jpg

http://theserviceconnection.org/tsc/media/UserFiles/image/handsincircle(1).jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/25659751.jpg

http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens3594402module233215

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/79/l_b6a347d07ab84a23a598430b6072ae4

I hoped it worked.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welc
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:59 PM

I hear Curmudgeon may be taking his intravenous antibiotics in Sinsull's recovery ward too. So Michelle, you won't be lonely. You can listen to all the bleeps, whirrs and glurps in between his grousing about the noise from his machines.

You too can fight over the laptop and who gets to read which thread first. Although I think Tom will probably ask you to read his to him as his eyesight is not great, by his own admission. Don't let him make you do all the work though. You are not his bleeding secretary.

Mary? May I donate a little get well fairy and a pack of playing cards to the room?

When my little Hilary had to have liver biopsy, she didn't want to take deep cleansing breaths as the doctors and nurses told her she must. Very important to keep lungs strong and clear. So I bought her this set of paint pens that you had to blow the paint out of the end.   Don't think she got on too well with them as I ended up giving them away.

If I still had them though, would definitely donate to the recovery ward. Imagine Michelle and Tom blowing paint at each other and all over Mary's freshly decorated room.


tam      

slinking off before Mary catches me

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:47 PM

Bears do it whereever they are locked in. Miss Stilly is not quite herself after the accident in the Tavern. And Nurse Ratched is not happy about the extra work load - heh heh a pun.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: ClaireBear
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:34 PM

SINS< bears do that in the woods. You got any woods in there? If not, no worries.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST,WYS-out
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:34 PM

SRS, there is no need to move ANYthing. I've taken care to put, in each thread, what belongs in each thread, and it was not I who created the multiplicity of threads. So please-- just leave it! (Or YOU will be making ME dizzy.)

Still no word on Michelle here-- SRS has the hospital's name and number so she may get news before I do.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:28 PM

If we bring in real bears, I suspect they had better be Pampered, bears, don't you think?

Susan--you're making me dizzy! I'm going to ask a clone to move any of today's update posts that actually have news about Michelle over here from the de-clutter thread so people can find it and not have to wade through our dust kittens and stacked up cardboard boxes. If posts are similar, we'll let the pixies have them (so maybe they'll leave some of the rest of our threads alone!). Makes this much easier on the general population to know what in heck we're talking about sometimes. But thanks for your efforts!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 04:08 PM

Stilly - you DO mean stuffed brown bears? Right? Toys? After that whack on the head I thought I better ask. I am not about to shovel out that room every few hours, you know.

It's always something. SIGH

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST,WYS-out
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 03:01 PM

Still no incoming calls here, but Hardi did just issue an outgoing cell call letting Bonnie know that Michelle and she are still in "our" prayers (which Michelle and perhaps Bonnie will understand includes all of her MudBuds), and inviting a callback when she is ready to let "us" know anything. (They know Friday is technically a day off and they may be holding calls for that reason.)

Animaterra, pls see contemporaneous post in decluts thread.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: Severn
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:36 PM

All the best thoughts from one who survived small-cell cancer in the lymphatic system a couple of years ago and, it being in full remission am able to stand, grinning it down. You'll come out of it like a champ and will have a lot of friends here cheering you on as they did for me. We've got your back.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: ClaireBear
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:21 PM

Michelle, all my support from afar. I went through a similar procedure for cervical cancer 5 years ago, and I stand with you now. You'll be fine. All that golden light will surely make it so. Not to mention all those bears...

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:08 PM

All of that yellow will be a great background for all of the brown bears.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:06 PM

Michelle, I wish you an uncomplicated procedure and a speedy recovery! I'm sure you will be fine. Your mudcat friends will help you through...

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:57 PM

Room is ready. A lovely sunny yellow, pale yellow flannel sheets, sunflower pillows, and daffodils in a banana jar. Bright and cheerful. But if she hates it I have a pink number ready as well.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST,WYS-out
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:46 PM

Oh, sorry, forgot to answer Eb. Michelle will understand the reference-- she helped decorate the Mudcat Attic Dorm, and had a particular reaction to one item with which we furnished it. (She will explain if she wishes.)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: GUEST,WYS-out
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:44 PM

Still no calls here AFAIK.

IMO that would be GOOD news.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:24 PM

I'll go check on her room preparations in the recovery ward. Ratched keeps starching the sheets.

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:58 PM

By now, our girl is no doubt sleeping off one helluva hangover and is free of cancer.

Doesn't that make you want to smile?

I think I'll go buy a round in the Mudcat Tavern!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: LilyFestre -Fri. Surgery- comfort etc welcome
From: Tinker
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 12:42 PM

The attic is for wandering mudcatters, the cellar..... well it's been pretty well explained.


Tinker

who has spent time in both Mudcat attics and cellars....