BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 07:31 PM

One (worthwhile) Thing After Another

seasonable greeting to you

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Tinker
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 01:17 PM

Still here and sending off sparkling light and joyous healing.....

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 12:18 PM

Hurry up and wait.
Groan

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: MikeL2
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 11:43 AM

hi Linn

All my thoughts are with you both.

Illness and diagnosis does not stop for holidays.

Some years ago I had similar problems and I had to attend every day over the Easter holiday.

Time has told that it was the right thing to do - I am now completely cured.

I hope my words of experience help you both.

Stay with it.

Love

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 11:41 AM

It is a good thing, Linn. They want to make sure they are aware of anything which might need to be addressed before going into surgery.(I know you know that.) I know it seems like forever, but it is worth it. They made me wait through five months of tests, told me they were making a road map of my body so they wouldn't get any surprises once they cracked my chest.:-)

Light and Love to you both,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 11:36 AM

Good luck, thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 11:14 AM

Well, Tom spent Monday working the phone, trying to get call backs from his doctors (trying to get them co-ordinated) to get his carotid artery problem taken care of. Trying to get through to them that it is imperative that he have his postponed cancer surgery on January 26th.

He was back to work on another project yesterday -- they want him whatever hours they can get him and know he will be having some medical tests and procedures.

Today he's having an arteriogram and I know he has an appointment with another doctor on Monday.

Things must be accomplished, holidays or not!

But I'm choosing to think of this as a GOOD thing -- if there's a potential problem that could cause a stroke, we definitely want it headed off at the pass!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Tinker
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 05:35 PM

Thanks for keeping us updated.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 03:01 PM

Silly gnu...I only meant to have a warm bed, again.**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 02:16 PM

kat... hahahahaaa

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 07:29 PM

Good. It's gotta feel good to get home. I'll bet the cats are relieved.:-)

Lotsalove,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: maeve
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 03:42 PM

Glad you're home and the place hasn't frozen. Have a cozy night back in familiar digs.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 03:07 PM

Rest up and relax. Still in my thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 01:57 PM

Kalma...it was kalma that Tom had.

Just got home. The house, while not what I'd call toasty, is less cold than we expected. No water freeze-up and the furnace is running to bring it back up to temperature.

Gotta go call work and let them know I'll be in tomorrow.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 10:38 AM

Better is better!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 10:12 PM

hi .....Glad you had a great tasting meal..flavor is important. Let me know what you want to do re work tomorrow Rom

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: GUEST, Bat Goddess in Boston
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 08:11 PM

I had shawarma; Tom had, merde, 2 glasses of wine and I can't remember. Started with a K and wasn't kibbi (and it was grilled). Both were very good, but I think my shawarma was best. Lovely combinations of flavors.

The restaurant is the Phoenicia, by the way -- on Cambridge Street in Boston across from Blossom Street -- Beacon Hill area.

I'm in the middle of a sneezing fit, so I think I'll head upstairs to bed.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Janie
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 04:46 PM

Enjoy yourselves tonight!

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: GUEST,Tom
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 04:39 PM

The treated cord is healed enough for moderate abuse - a bit of rum in my water, some semi flat beer, some real,mixed with decaf.Again, thanks all - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: maeve
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 04:32 PM

Thanks, Linn. Love to you and Tom. If there's any pleasure to be had in tonight's meal and good company I know you two will find it.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 04:02 PM

Try the lentils and rice, Linn. Wonderful stuff.
Sorry it didn't happen, Tom. Kendall will tell you, the worst of this is the waiting.
Are you allowed to eat, drink and be merry now?

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: gnu
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 03:54 PM

Overall... good news. Thanks, Linn. Hang in there kids!

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 03:35 PM

Thanx for the update Tom. Best of luck to you and skill to the physicians.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 03:34 PM

Ach! (My inner Kraut comes out...)

Well. We took the Downeaster to Boston as planned. I saw "my" throat guy and got scoped. Results: nothing to be concerned about. Mouth, throat and vocal cords look good 'n healthy. Might want to protect against "stealth" acid reflux and go back to taking my generic Prilosec and avoid eating too close to bedtime, but I'm reassured that my throat annoyances are nothing dire.

Tom was scoped, too, prior to meeting with Dr. Z -- who says his vocal cords are looking really good, too. One of Dr. Z's assistants, though, was on the phone TWICE with Tom's cardiologist, who decided he wanted to see more tests on Tom before he gives the okay for Tom to be under anesthesia.

So...final cancer removal (and initial rebuild) postponed to the end of January -- with the reminder to Tom's primary care doc and cardiologist that the rest of the cancer needs to be removed ASAP, meaning get the damned tests done and whatever else accomplished before the end of January so the surgery can go on at that time.

What I really wanted for Christmas was for all the cancer to be gone. A start on rebuilding the voice would be gravy. Ah, well, deferred gratification time (again). But I certainly don't want to take the chance of Tom having a stroke during the surgery -- or any other time!

So, we're spending the night in Boston, since we'd have to pay for the hotel room anyway. And we were able to cancel the room for tomorrow night without penalty. We'll have dinner tonight at a lovely little Lebanese restaurant just on the other side of Cambridge St. and take the Downeaster home tomorrow morning -- which will delight the cats. (And maybe the house won't be too frozen.)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: SussexCarole
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 01:10 PM

Thinking of you today Love from us both

Carole & Andrew x

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 12:55 PM

Gee whillickers. (Is that how you spell "whillickers"?)

One of these days, Mudcat's surgery veterans should hold a drunkfest and strip our sleeves, show off our scars and compare medbiz horror stories. An opthalmologist can reduce the strongest soul to quivering tears just by reaching for that nasty little lens thingy that he sticks right into your eye ...

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Hollowfox
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 09:57 AM

Likewise from Ohio.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Tinker
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 09:09 AM

Love and light and laughter headed your way......

fingers and other body parts crossed in anticipation....

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: maeve
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 08:31 AM

Nudibranch= a sea slug

I doubt that either Tom or Linn will find any mention of a nudibranch in their medical reports this month.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 08:11 AM

What's a nudibranch?

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 03:43 AM

Fingers and everything else crossed here.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: maeve
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 10:24 PM

Have an illuminating day you two. If any of the docs mumble something about finding a nudibranch; run!

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:47 PM

Probably need a carotidologist to translate the carotidologist's report. Probably reads like "Upon fladeration with the probe, the lateral-collateral aspect of the medial trundificated glarbovicualar process demonstrated minimal ablomination."

...and what it means might be 'reasonably normal', but it sounds like you should duck under a desk and wait.

Bon voyage tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:36 PM

Tom and Linn - all the best from Tom and me.......we are sending our love and our positive thoughts.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:35 PM

Ya' know Linn, its the acronyms that occasionally foul me up.......like accidentally referring to my ICD as an IUD............that was bad..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:13 PM

It's "ophthalmologist" -- am I the only one that ain't one who can spell it? (No, I know there are some other toilers in the editorial fields here at Mudcat.)

It's okay, darlin' (Curmudgeon); it's not the easiest English word to spell. (I can spell "defibrillator", too!)

Sigh. ;-)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:19 PM

Tom-

Thanks for the glossary. It does help me to keep track of all the players.

Best of luck with Dr. Z.

Hope to see you and Linn on Saturday at the Press Room.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:14 PM

Go with the flow... no other choice. Thoughts and prayers big time from The True North.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: curmudgeon
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:11 PM

Card - cardiologist

Opth - opthamologist

Dr. Z - Dr. Zietels

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:09 PM

neither she nor the Card. could make any sense out of it. ???

sending more good wishes (& that Dr Z. can make sense of it all)

andra

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: curmudgeon
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 06:57 PM

I saw the Opth this morning; I was asked if my meds had been changed or if I had talked to my Card. The Opth said my eyesight had improved and I should call my Card. He wasn't concerned about ny eye problem but rather potential for stroke during surgery. He allowed as he understood me to have a carotid artery problem.

I talked to my Cards. nurse who said the blood tests were great, but they had no report on the carotids; thsi was the Dr. who ordered the tests. She said she'd track thme don, send them to Dr Z in Boston and get back to me. When she did get back, she had sent the report to Dr. Z, but admitted that neither she nor the Card. could make any sense out of it.

Thus, Linn and I are going to Boston tomorrow for our respective Drs. appointments, at which time we'll know if surgery will go as planned or be put off.

Many thanks, comrades, for all your good thoughts. Will report later as we know more - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 02:31 PM

congrats to you both on the anniversary thing... still good wishes coming from out england way for good health and effective treatments.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:11 PM

Geez Linn. With all those tubes going in and out, why not schedule dual colonoscopies and get yourself covered end to end like my car.

What a romantic way to spend an anniversary.
Good luck!

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: jacqui.c
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 11:40 AM

Congratulations from the other side of the Pond.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 10:53 AM

Indeed! Congratulations!

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:54 AM

congratulations!

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:34 AM

Well, Tom's off to see the ophthalmologist he saw last week (yes, that one) to see if there are any results from last week's tests.

And whether that will interfere with our trip to Boston tomorrow, Tom's check-up with Dr. Z, my scoping with another doctor, and Tom's procedure on Thursday morning to get rid of the rest of the cancer and make a start on rebuilding the area of the right vocal cord.

Just hanging and not knowing anything from any direction truly sucks.

Oh, by the way, as of about 7 o'clock tonight, Tom and I will have known each other for 29 years. Today is our "Other Anniversary" -- our wedding anniversary is June 26th; December 15th is the double anniversary of the night we met and then a year later while celebrating having known each other for a year, we decided to get married.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 08:35 AM

"Stand to travel"????
They are up this way monthly and always have a bed, a hot meal and a bit of something to drink.
You know you're welcome, Linn.

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: GUEST,winterbright
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 09:28 PM

Linn & Tom, I'm just catching up with this thread.
I had a central retinal vein occlusion back a-ways. If you can stand to travel for a diagnosis, you won't find better than Jeffrey Moore at the Maine Eye Center in Portland. Top-notch!!!
Much love and much healing from your old best woman!

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon: One Thing After Another
From: Nancy King
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 08:26 PM

Still sending good thoughts from here!

Nancy