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Subject: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Sep 12 - 12:47 PM The chord request is for the boldface URL in the below. I am scheduled for surgery Thursday, in about 48-odd hours (I'll get the real time tmrw). Today: Packing the bag for Rehab Phase 3, sunshine, outside chores w/dog helping, healing, tear-filled memories long-blocked. All of the above = God and His time. The latest people-thanks are for Jerry and Suzi, who solved a major problem graciously first thing this morning! RE: Prayers.... I have had a hard time coming up w language for a wider prayer request, but the geese flying over the AM dog-walk w/scooter seemed to clear it up.... This is a surgery it turns out a lot of people have but do not usually talk about.... and that needs to change!!! I know two women locally who had it done, a local friend knows one other, and I believe another Mudcatter once told me about her experience with it. The details are pretty gory so let's not go there right now... It is a "radical reconstructive surgery" with a 40"-wide, deep-tissue incision... (1) to correct damage done thru a lifetime of untreated hypothyroidism... and (2) to permit resuming typical physical activities of FARM life. This should take about 10 years off my spine and knees, and may get me on horseback next year, too. It is certainly planned to power more physically-active ministries! So pls feel free to share that as you think OK... one good way to pray for me is to sing EWTN's "Chaplet of the Divine Mercy" for/with/about me, wherever you may be. Youtube versions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnNKoOs8BdY, or the chant-oriented one I usually use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__RbWgxA2G0 (I already have that one's dots/chords). TBTG for them thar geese! :-) And thank YOU for your help, love, and support in His Name. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 11 Sep 12 - 01:39 PM You are in my prayers, Wysi. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 11 Sep 12 - 05:48 PM Sounds like a gastric bypass. I wish you well with it Susan. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Sep 12 - 06:05 PM No-- it is NOT gastric bypass, thank you very much. THYROID-- not fud. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,999 Date: 11 Sep 12 - 06:17 PM Best wishes to you, Susan. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 11 Sep 12 - 06:56 PM Ok. I have no idea what fud means but I still wish you well. Be as ornery as you want about it. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 12 Sep 12 - 02:56 AM adding my good wishes for your major surgery, rehab & healing, Susan love from sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Sep 12 - 10:32 AM CHORDS, anyone? Thanks, ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,999 Date: 12 Sep 12 - 11:51 AM D, A, Bm, G Mostly those chords all the way through. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Sep 12 - 04:38 PM Thanks, sweetie. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 13 Sep 12 - 09:26 PM Hoping you are resting comfortably and that surgery went well. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 14 Sep 12 - 07:29 PM Still thinking about you and hoping today went well, that maybe you were able to be up and moving about a little bit and that you have a steady stream of really good pain meds. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 14 Sep 12 - 07:43 PM You've been in my heart all day... |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Bill D Date: 14 Sep 12 - 08:31 PM Missed thread at first..... thinking and wishing all good results |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,999 Date: 14 Sep 12 - 08:40 PM Ditto, Susan. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 15 Sep 12 - 01:53 PM Hi Susan, It is a beautiful day outside and the clouds over your house are spectacular....all puffy, silvery with bright blue skies and a cool breeze. If you are home, I hope Father Cootiesniffer will open the curtains for you and maybe a nearby window while you rest and heal. If you aren't home yet, I hope you have a bed near the window so you can see those clouds...they are truly gorgeous. Hoping all is well. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 16 Sep 12 - 08:06 AM Good Morning! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Sep 12 - 08:14 PM Still in hosp doing well. Nursing home next. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,999 Date: 16 Sep 12 - 08:18 PM How you feeling? |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Charmion Date: 17 Sep 12 - 11:52 AM Hi, Susan -- it's good to see you're well enough to sit up and take notice, as Bertie Wooster would say. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 18 Sep 12 - 12:00 AM I'll second that! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 18 Sep 12 - 09:38 AM Hello, Wysiwig, I've been away, visiting relatives. I'm happy to see your message of the 16th, saying you are doing well. I hope you are even better now. Please let us know. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 18 Sep 12 - 10:35 AM Perfect day for snuggling in with a book (or sitting by the window to watch the rain) and heal. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Sep 12 - 08:01 PM Ruff day... Tuff lady!!! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 18 Sep 12 - 10:33 PM Hang in there, partner! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Sep 12 - 11:09 PM I hope you're feeling better, Susan! You have some serious healing to do, so take care of yourself. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Sep 12 - 05:17 PM Discharge to nursing home tomorrow. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 19 Sep 12 - 08:10 PM more good news on the long slow way to full healing sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Sep 12 - 06:14 PM Not. Sure why but not transferred to nursing home yet! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 21 Sep 12 - 08:24 PM Hope all is well. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Sep 12 - 12:26 PM Discharge tdy to local hotel so I can keep doc appt tmrw, then home n outpt PT with home hlth aide as needed. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Oct 12 - 03:54 PM Well, I got to the bottom of the "Jesus, I just can't take this anymore" prayer today.... had a good ole boohoo and affirmed even more strongly that (A) I am NOT supposed to be home yet and (B) my surgeon totally screwed up my aftercare program-- and made sure the insurance will keep making it hard for me to cobble up my own, make-do, "home plan." So I am here asking for prayer-- this time a very focused prayer: that the insurance gates open wide, and that I get into a nursing home ASAP for at least a couple of weeks. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: KT Date: 01 Oct 12 - 04:04 PM Thinking of you Susan. Recovery from something like this can take all you've got and then some. Here's hoping that things will turn around for you today and that you'll be feeling fit as a fiddle soon. KT |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 02 Oct 12 - 01:05 AM What I tend not to talk about are the messy post-surg details no one should have to deal with-- without either skilled help or a houseful of strong wimminzes. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 02 Oct 12 - 09:59 AM I'm praying, as you requested, Susan. I sure hope this all works out for you. Does the hospital have a social worker? Might be worth a visit. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 02 Oct 12 - 11:19 AM I hope things straighten themselves out. Medical messes are difficult enough to deal with when you are well/healed/good health. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Oct 12 - 12:51 AM Finally got into a nursing hm Sunday (ER. admission) w open incion draining, for 6-8 dressing chgs/day. Healing going very slowly. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 12 Oct 12 - 10:24 AM Perhaps in a quieter, more stable environment, the healing will be faster. I hope so, anyway. I'll think healing thoughts. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Oct 12 - 02:12 PM For a little fun, look up "wound dehiscence" and piciture stuffing half a bunch of banana in where it would be more normal to pull a baby out in a C section. Then, look up "wound vac." |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,mg Date: 19 Oct 12 - 03:02 PM Interesting..I just heard two nurses this weekend talk about wound vac..they were very much for it in some situations. Hope you are getting the care you need and the insurance comes around. mg |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 19 Oct 12 - 05:20 PM My mom wore a wound vac for almost an entire summer maybe 4 years back. They way they help heal the wound is pretty interesting stuff. Hope you are having good luck with it. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,999 Date: 19 Oct 12 - 05:31 PM Ditto that, Susan. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,WYS-guest Date: 19 Oct 12 - 08:36 PM It certainly beats the gushing and slime trail that preceded it. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Dharmabum Date: 20 Oct 12 - 05:45 AM Hi Susan, There's 10 gallons of Ulysses"Frack Free"springwater waiting for you at home. DB. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Oct 12 - 11:59 AM Noted!! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Oct 12 - 03:50 PM Tomorrow or Friday I will be discharged to home health care, tho I am stjll sleeping 20 out of 24 hours and weak as a kitten with Hardi seldom home. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Oct 12 - 11:37 AM I am seriously missing the many departments that support tge excellent nursing care at the nursing home... its hard for one person who is seldom home to get if all done and it is hard to wait 2-3 days for the nurse whe tends the wound vac to get around to me.... |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 30 Oct 12 - 02:38 PM Where I live, I could pick up the phone, dial 211, and say "Somebody help me!" Have you got 211 service, WysiwiG? How about the county dept of aging? Can they get you some more help? |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Nov 12 - 01:36 PM Emergency help only. I am too young to acess local excellent svcs for the aged. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Nov 12 - 09:25 AM Checking in to see how you're doing, Susan. I hope you're healing and feeling better. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 09 Nov 12 - 06:56 AM Peeking in to say hello and hoping the healing continues. What I said to you in my note still stands. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Nov 12 - 10:49 AM I hope by now things have sorted out enough that you're feeling better and the surgery has had the desired repair or effect. Kick the sides every now and then to let us know you're there! (An original Star Trek reference, probably obscure to the young'uns who might stumble on this thread.) SRS |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Nov 12 - 12:07 PM :~( Well, I landed back in the local ER Sat.. with a section of the original incision the sz of a soccer ball-- it was fun when they lanced THAT! Pus! Also very anemic. Next stop nursing home. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Charmion Date: 12 Nov 12 - 12:31 PM Holy crap. Fingers crossed. I don't understand how someone with a fresh incision -- especially one that size, with in-dwelling drains -- could be discharged home without daily nursing support. That's just nuts. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 12 Nov 12 - 05:43 PM :( Infections in incisions can be scary. I hope you have a good medical team that is working hard for you and making sure you are comfortable. Continued prayers for your recovery. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Nov 12 - 04:04 PM 2 units of packed red cells now on board. running...antibiotics IV and iron |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Nov 12 - 08:51 PM At some point you'll have to tell us if the cure was worse than the original problem. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Nov 12 - 10:56 PM Yup... that is the great question. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 14 Nov 12 - 08:05 AM I hope that was the last barrier on your road to healing. sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 14 Nov 12 - 09:41 AM I hope so too, Wysiwyg. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Nov 12 - 10:34 AM Nursing home today. And no more wound vac!!! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Nov 12 - 07:21 PM Remarkable what 2 bags of packed red cells can do! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 16 Nov 12 - 08:02 PM good stuff, just what the body needed to keep up the good work of healing sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Bill D Date: 16 Nov 12 - 09:38 PM Wow... just found this. Sending all I can muster of healing thoughts and good wishes. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Nov 12 - 04:01 AM Wow indeed. Hell Bill, hello! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Nov 12 - 04:15 PM Tho still sleeping half the day away, I am feeling stronger (bored) each day. I estimate about 2 have not actually been more disabled than I already was... it id just taking longer to enjoy the benefitd than i hsd hoped.more weeks bere and you guys have been a great lifeline ... keep it up pls! Fone-posting is very slow... Has it been worth "all this"? Yes... I have not. E |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Nov 12 - 04:18 PM AAARRGH FONE GARBLES INSERTS N EDITS |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Jeri Date: 18 Nov 12 - 04:20 PM I was hoping you were just enjoying some good drugs! I'm glad things are improving and hope they continue to-- somewhat faster and more completely. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Nov 12 - 06:54 PM Busy day w first visitors allowed (Bishop). Today I start cutting back pain meds... opioids are too nice. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 20 Nov 12 - 04:13 AM virtual hugs or even gentle pats on or above the shoulder if a hug is too much with less drugs in the body sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 20 Nov 12 - 09:21 AM Hello, Wysiwig. I'm glad to hear that you are feeling stronger and that you think the surgery will have been worth it. You have truly been in the Valley of the Shadow, but now you are leaving it. Thank God. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 20 Nov 12 - 02:08 PM Aw .. sweet mudgals. Massage"!!! WOUND CONTRACTURE: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1298129-overview |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Nov 12 - 05:25 PM Ungarbled from above post (TBTG for puder access) Tho still sleeping half the day away, I am feeling stronger (bored) each day. I estimate about 2 more weeks bere and you guys have been a great lifeline ... keep it up pls! Fone-posting is very slow... Has it been worth "all this"? Yes... I have not not actually been more disabled than I already was... it is just taking longer to enjoy the benefits than I had hoped. === So many things to adjust to-- scar tissue is tight like many seatbelts, nerves that were cut are coming back to life in a very weird way, and I have... a LAP????!?!?!?!? What is this thing you call a LAP? I can put on my own.... socks???? What else???? Thyroid.... ENERGY??? But now I am not sleeping-- I seem to be in-between wound healings. The first complication is just about filled in and the second has not yet begun to form significant amounts of granulation tissue under th skin. I am betting that when it does the sleeping will resume. I am briefly visiting the house to have a light meal with Hardi and gather a few more items to make my room at the Home nicer-- and considering how to prep for possible service-dog residence there to make me walk more, there. We had our turkey at the Home-- the food there is really purty good! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Nov 12 - 08:34 AM This wk, tdy esp, docs n ins companies will make decisions critical to my continued healing n recov. I have ducks in a row but not sure how well they will stay lined up. And I am sicck now w a nasty UTI w brain fog. Pray hard pls!!! Thanks! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 27 Nov 12 - 02:06 PM I'm sending in the prayers and despatching the good thoughts as we speak, Wysi. My goodness, you are enduring so many ups and downs! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 28 Nov 12 - 09:08 AM Thanks leenia! There are new horrors daily. Today it is the reality that 59 year old skin shreds with 11 weeks of tape removal. And that wound packing material can disappear inside the wound and be found... eventually, with luck! And that no one drew a map of the tunnels under the skin so that the dozen or so nurses who pack the wound and measure healing in there know where to pack, unpack, or measure... which means I just wasted 2 weeks of ins. bennies! This does not include the UTI. left untreated because the attending doc is out hunting... or the unanswered questions I am holding for him, or.... But that was just the first 4 hours.... and this thread really should migrate to the BS section. It's just too much to post each day. But now that I went off tge heavy meds I am taking notes! Moved below the line, per request. --Mudelf who is following your progress with fingers crossed. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 28 Nov 12 - 08:04 PM my fingers crossed, too, you've been going thru a lot, susan best wishes & big (virtual) hugs for continued healing & answers & relief love from sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,WysiVis. Date: 07 Dec 12 - 02:15 PM Laptop from home finally here! Still in nursing home.... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 07 Dec 12 - 07:54 PM I hope that your wounds continue to heal, even if it's slow going. I also hope you have a decent view from your room (or are you able to be up and around?). Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Bill D Date: 07 Dec 12 - 07:59 PM Get We care! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Ebbie Date: 07 Dec 12 - 08:36 PM I've been missing you, Susan. Glad to find this thread. Get even better fast- you've had a scary time of it. Keep us updated, OK? |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 07 Dec 12 - 09:46 PM 1 laptop = the world! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Dec 12 - 09:45 AM http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myofascial_release |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Janie Date: 09 Dec 12 - 10:33 AM Hi Susan, sorry to be so late chiming in - I'm just seeing this thread. Not sure what kind of surgery you had but don't need to know to add my my good wishes and to add a bit extra attentional emphasis for your healing to my meditations. Healing love and light, and strength your way. Janie |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 09 Dec 12 - 03:23 PM FYI: Some local folks are asking me about you and are sending good thoughts your way. Can they contact you at the motormice email? I hope you are snuggly warm today...it's damp and cold out there. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 10 Dec 12 - 12:43 AM Myofascial_release - my phyio treats my fascia in similar ways. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Dec 12 - 05:49 PM Yeh, I love it! Here is a summary of what has happened. (People who email me get this and I update it as I have time.) Right now there is a huge PT-OT push and contractor-push to get me ready for the house-- and the house ready for me-- by Dec. 24. ===== Thanks for your email. My email access right now is sporadic, at best. Fone calls are welcome. I've been tied up since Sept. 13 with a major reconstructive surgery followed by serious complications. FMI look up: "wound dehiscence" "wound vac" (now removed) "wound contracture" "anemia" As of Thanksgiving this had involved ten days in-hospital post-op, then home health care, several weeks of nursing home care from which I was discharged back to home health care, 3 trips to the ER, and (the latest ER visit) a soccer-ball-sized abcess with another 4 (?) days in a different hospital, IV antibiotics, and 2 units of packed red blood cells. I am presently back in the nursing home for wound care, and hopefully, PT and OT. All my usual activities are suspended for the present; it is unknown how many weeks or months it will take to recover from these complications. I am still working out thyroid dosages (since March of 2012), and I am not sure where I am on the anemia-- it's better but not yet quite gone. To decrease the chance of another infection I am limiting visitors-- thanks for understanding! Priority goes to to people who can bring my service dog for a visit. Prayers, fone, and cards are welcome. Personal help at home is also welcome (call me). Much love, ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 12 Dec 12 - 07:03 PM may 2013 be a much better year sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Dec 12 - 08:02 PM AMEN, tho 2012 has had its blessings, even amid the difficulties... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 13 Dec 12 - 12:37 AM So was that a yes to the motormice email? I didn't get the impression that people were asking to visit but rather wanted to talk with you. Can you PM me a number that I can share with them or maybe an email address where they can contact you and you can share your number directly? Best wishes for continued healing. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: EBarnacle Date: 13 Dec 12 - 01:58 AM Welcome back to ye world of communicants. I hope you have enjoy the stuff I have been sending you. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Dec 12 - 04:49 AM LF, I think folks who want to be in touch have the contact information they need, including checking with the parish office. I have not seen the latest version of the parish directory lately, but I am pretty sure I am still in it. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Dec 12 - 09:18 AM Friends, please understand that my online access and time are still very limited by repeated facility modem/router outages only the maint dept can touch (aaaaargh)...... as well as aggressive getting-ready-for-discharge-day OT/PT and multiple dressing changes, docs on rounds...... etc etc.... and the young staff members I make time to help along their career path (didn't expect THAT)..... hubby visits.... (I already need a nap!) :~) Oh and the Insurance Combat to which I am invited on a daily basis. :~) (I already need a VACATION!) So for example, EB-- I ain't been able to open nary a one, yet, but am looking fwd to them when I get home to MY router and modem which I can reboot whenever they need it! And when I see them on my fone email, it reminds me I'm connected somedamnwhar. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: LilyFestre Date: 13 Dec 12 - 01:39 PM It was not a person from church so they wouldn't have your directory. I guess they can figure it out on their own. Be well. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 13 Dec 12 - 08:53 PM insurance/bureaucracy battles are not good for sick/recovering people. keep gaining strength & keep fighting! Years ago a then homeless woman was given a phone & a list of womens refuges by a busy Social Worker as she recovered from an emergency gall bladder operation! She was new to town but fortunately had some other acquaintances who could help her find a place to stay. sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Dec 12 - 01:01 PM Hm.... boondocking at a homeless shelter.... that IS an option I had not considered! WITH service dog (overnight heat source)! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Dec 12 - 07:32 PM Hey, ya know what? This damn place has no PX! No stationery, spiral binders, pens/pencils, crayons, coloring books, books, stamps, phone cards, disposable cameras.... In your experience, is that the usual-- no gift/supply shop for residents? ??? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 15 Dec 12 - 05:06 PM The going-home train is running fast now and I believe I have got it on the tracks. Monday a friend and her partner are making tine to help me set up a mini- Sick Bay, where I can continue healing, in our house. I am awaiting two bids for a ramp and handrails-- both bidders assure me that weather notwithstanding, I WILL be able to get into the house (and back out again as needed), safely. A ride of the anticipated discharge day has been arranged (with backup), with a good friend who had a similar surgery awhile back. The lift recliner I am prescribed is here now and the day has been chosen for it to return home, where it will be the last item needed for the Sick Bay. From Sick Bay I will entertain Home Health nurses/OT/PT. I will sleep. And there I will be drenched in sunshine, peace, and harmony. I just about have the nutrition program licked-- I am on a crazy-high-protein regimen to build tissue where infection ate mine. Our favorite local chef has given me a great price on two sheet pans of my favorite entrees, which I can break down into meal-sized portions for the freezer. Hardi has been stockpiling casseroles that our dear parishioners sent home (to feed the bachelor), to feed us both, so I should be able to resume cooking gradually the baby steps I am now able to take. Canned high-iron greens, fresh fruit, etc. will be easily gotten if they are not already at home. And the piece de resistance-- Sauder's hardcooked (peeled!!!) eggs from Weis Market to make brekky a la P-Vine both tasty and easy. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Dec 12 - 08:09 PM Sounds like you've turned a big corner, Susan! That's more than you written in the last two months. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 15 Dec 12 - 11:13 PM very good to read all the practicalities, Susan. keep healing & resting |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Dec 12 - 03:17 PM Now if only I could remember not to prufreed on cold medicine. :~) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 16 Dec 12 - 06:39 PM It sounds like you are coming out of the woods. I'm happy for you, Wysiwyg. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:17 PM A grocery-shopping volunteer for January has stepped up, YAY!!! One more stick to take off Hardi's back. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 17 Dec 12 - 01:04 AM as you write, YAH |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Dec 12 - 05:30 AM Did I mention the two hernia repairs (which the pre-surgical CT scan did not reveal), that the surgeon did? Or that he only told me about one of them, post-op or in the ten+ days he visited me in the hospital? Or that he never did give me any post-hernia-repair safety information? Or that the new belly button he made me is still draining and is not even in the middle, L-R???? I do not go see him any more. But God is good; I think I will NOT have a 3rd round of complications, nor the endless rounds the surgeon I see now for follow-up warns me about. The two friends who had had a similar surgery never had ANY. I will of course be careful. But not scared! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 17 Dec 12 - 07:18 AM someone somewhere said sticking-out belly buttons are the most chic - I wonder where off-centre belly buttons come in the scheme of things. Susan, you could write a book! sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Dec 12 - 04:45 PM Susan, you could write a book! Yes, but then they would have to kill me. :~) I did start the Sick Bay today, thanks to a friend and her partner who drove an hour to help me for two hours. I left myself only the lightest of tasks to make it pretty and shiny-clean-- about as much as I already do each day at the "Home." We then stopped at a couple of banks to move some money around for ramp construction and give the contractor his LumberBucks. Just in time, too-- snow and the hard freeze look to arrive this weekend. I also took a few items home so that on departure day there is not so much STUFF someone will have to tote and I will have to put away. Upon return to the "Home," I started packing those clean, freshly laundered items I will need at home which are no longer needed here. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Dec 12 - 04:49 PM PS the friend is a priest, so of course we "prayed the new space in," in style-- she left my Prayer Book/Bible marked where she'd led this from, waiting for me in the sunny windowsill that will be my chairside "table." Near the glass oil lamp that will remind me that it never really has to be dark. I hope the cats don't knock it off and break it.... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 17 Dec 12 - 08:37 PM back in the dim past when I had a cat, she thought the windowsills were cat walks & I thought they were pot plant stands ... I eventually taped the pot plants to the window! enjoy your sunny windowsill sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Dec 12 - 09:50 PM It's quite a deep and wide sill-- a bay window-- but you know cats must take 20 inches when there are 18! :~) I do have a rubber mat I can put under the oil lamp... when I get home. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Dec 12 - 10:49 AM I was just informed that I'll get a new roomie today so internet time will probably decrease markedly-- I was using her tray table for a laptop desk and her outlet to charge it! :~) Posting from my phone is too tiring.... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 19 Dec 12 - 07:24 AM patiently awaiting your next post sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Dec 12 - 01:03 PM I go home Monday late afternoon. A wonderful step forward is that two of the three "wounds" that were being dressed and taped twice a day are now only getting a light skim of A&D ointment-- no gauze, no pads, NO TAPE. They are the two on the front of my abdomen, which is the area that has been under tape since Sept. 13. The skin just plumb wore out from the adhesive and the removal rips. Now, my house is not at all sanitary and these rtwo areas do need some protection, so I will probably resume light dressings once home-- but in the meantime that pore ole skin is getting some healing time, to stand it. One of the nurses came up with a much smaller dressing for the small incision on my hip where the soccer-ball-sized abscess was, under the skin. Think of it as a 4 x 4 bandaid. So it takes much less time to change that one-- and a LOT less tape all over my hip and leg. The contractor finished the ramp yesterday. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Dec 12 - 03:37 AM Home! Many new planets involved. Ramp done and wonderful! One of the wounds that was not bleeding.... is... ??? A third item of my personal stuff is now missing. Hm.... ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Dec 12 - 04:04 AM Theft in nursing homes and hospitals is, alas, commonplace. One wonders at the management of such places and how they screen their staff who leave with laptops and jewelry and trinkets at the end of the day. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Dec 12 - 11:01 AM Not staff. :~) I trust them with my life, AND my earthly goods. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Dec 12 - 05:02 PM The items turned up as I had hoped they might. (A casualty of too-fast packing when discharge hour suddenly became another Insurance Battle hour, ydy.) I am almost unpacked. The three large boxes/hampers in front of my recliner are now only two, and I have a load of wash going. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 25 Dec 12 - 09:19 PM don't forget to rest! Merry Christmas to you & wishing you a health-filled New Year sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Bobert Date: 25 Dec 12 - 09:24 PM Ol' hillbilly wishing you the speediest of recoveries and feeling good for the next 20 years... Not even a case of the sniffles... Speakin' of which... ...sniff... B~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Charmion Date: 25 Dec 12 - 09:56 PM Glad to hear you're home and doing better, Susan. Heal, girl, heal! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Dec 12 - 10:18 PM Rest, eh? Wal, that mini-Sick Bay I set up? Napping heaven. And room for the dog's bed right beside my chair. Faulkner seems to be 5 years younger all of a sudden, having his whole pack, whole, again. Oh I had come and gone a number of times to pick up or drop things off, but it took an overnight to convince him that I am really HERE. That, and watching me unpack, helped him a lot. As long as I gotta be housebound, BTW, I will be making a montage of some of the details. The support here has been so important. Thanks, friends. From here it is a whole new planet, so please stay close as I encounter new weirdities. Like.... the day I discovered, for the first time in... more than 20 years... I have a LAP! What IS that?!?!?!? Oh-- it HOLDS things! A LAPtop!?!?!?!? Who knew?!?!?! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Dec 12 - 07:43 PM There's nothing like a happy dog who wants to hang out in your company to really feel like you're home. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Bobert Date: 26 Dec 12 - 07:51 PM Laps and dogs are like toast and jam... B~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 26 Dec 12 - 08:27 PM I posted something witty about not having much of a lap - maybe the Mudcat Witty Post Detector didn't find it witty!! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Dec 12 - 08:32 PM While I OTOH have gained a lap but doggeh no-can-sit-there. Wounds healing, with ouchies. No paws allowed! :~) ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Dec 12 - 09:49 AM OK. I just gotta get this one off my chest. === I did not undergo this surgery for weight loss, though weight loss was a byproduct-- heck they took 37 pounds off my front. But I do think of this time with the complications as "time served," where I am earning that weight loss with as much hard work as a bypass might have involved. And I do-- of course-- like the more svelte shape that is emerging with the loss from the thyroid meds working. So after all this I can wear the 3x's I had given my husband when I could no longer wear them, and putting THOSE on is funfunfun-- because I know that I will be able to shop in stores once I am off HHS, not catalog. I do not mind my 6x tropical shirts being so baggy-- I can wear sweatshirts under them and it's COLD now. I do not mind my 4x jeans trying to fall off when I walk. But I did find it REALLY IRONIC that in the hospital and nursing home, their gown sizes went as far as 3x with sleeves too tight for comfort-- then the next size was TEN X!!! So I have been swimming in gowns big enough to make a sail to make Fiji. The various Laundry Dept. workers who brought me several of these voluminous piles of fabric, daily, assured me that the very-thin, over-worn, ties-gone gowns should be pitched. I culled my way thru a lot of bum gowns in the 6 weeks I spent at the Home. But I couldn't stand the waste-- and they have no sewing department. So I cut the ties off the worst of them to repair the best, with my little camping sewing kit, and sent them back to Laundry to be part of regular stock..... And I saved a few of the thin, now-tieless ones to use at home as robes. And they are very damn handy to wear for dressing changes! :~) === I feel better. I am also taking daily pix of the slimming Susan as I work my way thru a closet full of items on their way to the seamstress. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 27 Dec 12 - 10:35 AM untreated or improperly treated thyroid is a major problem. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Dec 12 - 02:55 PM SiS, yeah! The surgery was reconstructive to correct damage done thru a lifetime of untreated hypothyroidism....(Three hundred fifty three POUNDS of untreated thyroid disease....). It was life-saving in other ways, but THAT was my motivation to agree to DO it. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: KT Date: 27 Dec 12 - 03:45 PM So glad to know you're home, Susan! Keep on that healing, strengthening track! Sending good thoughts your way... KT |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 28 Dec 12 - 06:43 PM Keep on that healing, strengthening track! While I was on that last nursing home stay, laid up, some powerful people began to come to our aid on the insurance end. One of the results has been help from "Ms. Ashley"-- a breathtakingly brilliant woman in the health advocacy organization with whom our denomination contracts to help untangle pesky insurance issues. As I get stronger, news about efforts to get back to normal activities (i.e. starting to live out some of the benefits of this surgery) are in other, topic-appropriate threads. But in this one, I will now focus on updates about a big insurance appeal now underway. In the days after the surgery, my handy cellphone recorded graphic examples of what went wrong and what went well. I just emailed three of the most powerful photos to Ashley-- to support the medical records forthcoming from the hospital that took care of me after the surgeon messed me up. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 28 Dec 12 - 11:55 PM little people + Ms Ashley take on Big Health. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 29 Dec 12 - 05:41 PM I do not know yet when the appeal will be filed; first I have to gather a few boxes of medical records and the referring doc will order those for us next week. Ashley will go thru all this and then actually create the appeal on our behalf-- thus providing us a kollidge lesson in insurance industry priorities! I fully expect the insurance company to turn around and sue the surgeon to recover expenses they have paid out on my behalf. Some people have opined that I should consider suing him, but as long as I continue to gain strength and avoid further complications, we will not even need to go there. I just want to be WELL and get on with my life. I am quite sure that he will reap what he has sowed, all by himself. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Dec 12 - 10:10 AM My friend who was struck by a motorist in a parking lot last January has recovered but it took a long time - 2 weeks in the ICU, 3 1/2 months in various rehab facilities, stepping down in complexity as needed and as insurance dictated. In order to pay her hospital bills she had to sue - the driver of the car, and she had to sue insurance companies, including the auto folks since she was hit in the parking lot (she had two auto insurance policies in effect - one was supposed to have been closed a few months before the accident but family discovered the company was still pulling a policy payment from her checking account every month, so that company was on the hook though they tried to back out of the policy when they realized what was happening). We're coming up on a year on January 12, and some of this is still unfolding. She has had an attorney taking care of this stuff. Hang in there, don't let those companies off the hook. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Dec 12 - 12:07 PM SRS, wow! She has had an attorney taking care of this stuff. Hang in there, don't let those companies off the hook. This is exactly what Ashley does, under the umbrella of our very supportive diocesan health insurance plan. Our denom funds insurance thru a compassionate group of companies which are headed and often staffed by clergy. In managed care, PT (for example) is, industry-wide, "evidence based." Our insurance is purchased thru a "compassion-based" system, which includes checks and balances that come into play when one is SO "under water" on health expenses that were fairly incurred that one needs access to additional resources. In our case one of these resources is Ashley. ANY member of our insurance group has access to the Health Advocate network of experienced expediters. We were additionally blessed to be assigned to a senior member of the expediting group who can do all this-- without violating a Christian preference not to bring suit the way so much of our culture is prone to do. Going to court is a last, last, LAST recourse, for us-- and only after all other means have had time to play out in honest mediation. It is a very different way to do business. For example, the PT person at the Home, when she heard about the notion of "compassion-based" services, had a real hard time even seeing that there is another way out there, which is working well for many people. Her "evidence-based" assessments of my progress, for example, will help me make a case to a donor organization that compassionately assists when medical expenses go beyond the red zone-- while the PT's Medicare-mindset led her to think that "no" (i.e. insurance will not cover more PT) really meant "never" (i.e. no other funds are even out there). That org may be able to help when I get past HHS PT and onto outpatient PT-- our insurance covers some of the cost, but significant co-pays would preclude my doing outpatient PT at all without some help. Again, it is a very different way to do business. We do our part by being wise stewards of our income, and that includes significant participation in annual parochial pledge and capital programs... as well as personal volunteer service and financial assistance to people in the community; it all usually comes out OK, over time. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 30 Dec 12 - 08:18 PM It's very different to what I understand about US health system. Do other churches & compassionate organisations offer similar health systems? Here in the land of Oz we have universal health care - Medicare is government run & offers hospital & medical care, tho many folks also have private health cover to (help) cover the gap between Medicare rebate & fees charged, & to pay for/contribute to non-Medicare services. Medicare Australia explained on Wikipedia Patients can still have a large out-of-pocket expenses. sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 30 Dec 12 - 09:42 PM It's very different to what I understand about US health system. Do other churches & compassionate organisations offer similar health systems? Well, let's see. I can really only speak to my own experience, but I suspect the answer as far as other denominations would be yes. Here is an example from our housefire in 2000. The Church Insurance Group would gladly have hired a lawyoo to sue the landlord, till I explained that he had become a friend, treated us well, and we had employed one another's young men for their first jobs outside their own families-- that we did not want to sue and we fir sure did not want our happy, leaseless (handshake) agreement threatened with hard feelings. (And we have been here now since '94.) So the CIG paid our claim without suing him. The landlord's insurance did turn around and sue us and our insurance, because that is what secular, profit-driven entities do. But the whole time they were doing this, our landlord had no idea it was being done in their name. We just never brought it up, even as weekly mail came and went all about the gory details. But when the landlord's family found out (around final settlement time), were they mad. "Those 'tenants' are our dear friends! Stop this suit at once! You cannot do this in our name!" Hardi had buried their patriarch, Walter.... because they asked him to, and because Walter had just loved sitting in our driveway watching our ducks. (There is a MudThread about that one.) ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 31 Dec 12 - 09:07 AM Dear sweet sister, I have been so little on the Mudcat that somehow I missed the whole thing. What a tower of strength you are, yet again! I have limited internet access these days, but know that you are in my heart and I am sending light and love and healing mojo your way! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Jan 13 - 09:53 AM I slept in my OWN BED last night (a few hours) for the first time since Sept. 12, TBTG! Happy New Year: "Begin as you mean to go on." As soon as HHS PT sez I can do stairs on my own-- that ole lift recliner will no longer be the main sleepatorium but just the damn napatorium! :~) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 01 Jan 13 - 01:33 PM Hooray for you! Blessed sleep, in your OWN bed- there is nothing like it! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 02 Jan 13 - 10:04 AM Blessed sleep, in your OWN bed- there is nothing like it! Well.... I did not actually sleep deeply, and I felt it the next day: insufficient energy. I have not been totally accurate in posting about the scar tissue that is going to be problematic for several more months. There are bands of it (along lines of incisions), and big lumps of it (where abscesses/gappy pockets were). It variously feels like overly-tight seatbelts I cannot take off, barbed wired lacing, a hot iron bar running me through, a cinderblock between belly and bed or hip and bed..... Then there are the miscellaneous sharp pains from time to time in places where they have not been, that may be from benign causes (increased activity for example) or from new complications brewing.... as the day goes on these daily "adventures" become quite wearing and I get pretty.... well, "crabby" is an understatement... sometimes walking helps.... sometimes I just do not have the energy left for that... This is a daily, ongoing part of healing from this surgery and from the way the damn doctor messed me up. It IS good for my prayer life though. :~) And hopefully y'all have been and will keep praying for this to soften, strengthen, and heal. And/or that I will learn "saintly" cheeerfulness-- I am working on that too. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Bobert Date: 02 Jan 13 - 10:18 AM Something about sleeping in one's own bed that is heeling... Onward and upward, WYSuz... Luv ya'... B~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 02 Jan 13 - 05:59 PM definitely onwards & upwards in Susan's case. love & gentle hugs sandra |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Jan 13 - 06:45 AM One recent morning while enjoying my sunny Sick Bay I happened to notice a flash of red in the bushes along the creek, looking out the east window which, most winters, has been kept covered. We need to keep the heat loss as low as possible. (Being on house arrest for HHS, this year we splurge on keeping the indoors as bright as possible.) Of course it was a cardinal, lurking among reddish-brown herbiage still clinging to the bushes. And a lovely, sunny meditation it was, enjoying his presence. Oh LOOK, there are TWO.... two bright red males.... and a THIRD!?!?!?! I got up and put out some cereal for them, scattered over the ramp's railing that faces the bushes. (I didn't have anything else they might like.) And then, as they say in poker, I went "all in": I hied myself hence to Amazon. Invested about $40 bucks in bird feeders I can mount on the ramp's posts, and a birdbath too. Cuz when it comes to birdehs, one is never enough. In early spring we are always buzzed by hummingbirds that seldom stay the summer. By golly I will be ready for them this year, and THIS year when all that snow melts, I'll be able to get down onto that porch and set a spell among the birdehs! Bird feeders and colorful hanging pots and..... zero grav recliners... camp chairs.... pickin'..... The mind must know I am going to survive this surgery and complications. It has gone off without me, planning for a few more years in this ole house. Everything portable to go to our retirement digs a few more years down the road.... yep..... uh huh, I see it now... ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 04 Jan 13 - 04:25 PM New 48' ramp: CLICK! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Jan 13 - 05:07 PM Medical records have begun to arrive for the appeal. They include some insulting ass-covering efforts by the surgeon, which I cheerfully found and annotated in my second look thru them..... wearing a cute pink turtleneck I can now wear. As revenge. Tonight a phone conference with number one son. Monday we mail what we have to Ms. Ashley, and we are sure she will agree that we also need the nursing notes and list of meds given.... I am gonna need a lot more retail therapy! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 12 Jan 13 - 06:22 PM Knock'em ded, sweet sister (I saw the photos of that pink turtleneck on FB- looking good, dear one)! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Jan 13 - 11:32 AM I have finally been able to assemble a draft of the timeline of key events the appeal needs to reference. The records.... well let's just say that after a few hours poring thru them ya get to wish yuh'd h'aint been born. TBTG for prayer! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Jan 13 - 01:28 PM The hospital records we needed for the appeal have arrived. We send them off to Ashley Monday (keeping a copy at home as well). I anticipate one last home health nursing visit next week to discharge me from home health.... we are down to a dressing I can DO. I took myself off the PT schedule yesterday. Now comes the hard part-- life with no external structure on TIME. I already blew it, too-- laundry all over the place, sore from not doing my stretches, and forgot all about eating breakfast this AM till 11:45! Back to the cellphone alarms for key structure! I am heading out for a ramp walk! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Feb 13 - 05:15 PM Today the appeal specialist (Miss Claudia) at Health Advocate introduced herself. She has begun the review of my medical records. I spent way too long yesterday going over the bulk of the records with a fine-tooth comb to spot items that show the medical necessity of my having been in the hospital, which is what the appeal is about. I got through about 80 of the 100+ pages; Ashley had sent them to me in PDF form so I could look in one screen and make notes in a WordPad file. When I can stomach those last pages I will group the types of info into a chart to discussion with Claudia. We also need to get a letter from the referring doc outlining what he had told me about the expected aftercare needs; I am mulling how to draft that request since he will probably write the letter from whatever I draft for him from my recollections of that conversation before the surgery. Uck uck, uck! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Feb 13 - 03:12 PM First analysis by appeals specialist Miss Claudia is right along the same lines I had been thinking, and well-organized. Requesting more records and re-iterating requests not yet honored. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Bobert Date: 11 Feb 13 - 05:39 PM I musta missed somethin', WYSuzie... Or a lot... The appeal??? Are you having to fight with the insurance company for the treatment??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 11 Feb 13 - 10:14 PM check out Susan's last post 06 Feb 13 - 05:15 PM (& her earlier ones!!) |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Donuel Date: 11 Feb 13 - 10:28 PM I only just arrived and don't know whats happening but honey you sound like you are victorius in spirit with spit and vinager enough to slay the most negligent dragon. |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 15 Feb 13 - 01:43 PM First fone conference with Miss Claudia, a bulldog with a heart if I ever met one. I continue to appreciate prayers that this appeal go according to His plan. It looks to me like a $51,000 bill will soon become a $3,000 bill, max. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 15 Feb 13 - 09:40 PM YAH!! more power to Miss Claudia's arm! & what happens to folk who do not have a Miss Claudia at their back? |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 15 Feb 13 - 10:58 PM They GETS one! Iffen they don't know how they ask me to help them find out how! (An' then I ask Miss Claudia how to hook 'em up!) ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 15 Feb 13 - 11:02 PM Bobert, thanks for joining the par-tay. Donuel, that post did me more good than I can say, and I almost missed it! But I laffed so hard my poor husband thought I'd taken a turn! Sandra, thanks-- you tell 'em, sister! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Feb 13 - 03:36 PM Although my REASON for agreeing to this surgery was for the LIFE-saving benefits-- some of which I have been enjoying despite complications-- it is also OK to ENJOY some side benefits I have begun to appreciate, as I get my strength back. Some of those benefits are reflected in an update of a montage previously linked upthread: 2012-13 Ramp and "Fashion" Forays A lot more fun in my day, today, than filing the damn medical records we may need to pull from, for the appeal! TO LIFE-- ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 17 Feb 13 - 05:05 PM onward & upward to life!! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Feb 13 - 06:58 PM UCK UCK UCK UCK! Just finished taming/containerizing the hard copies of all medical records received so far (and be set to catch those yet to come). One batch yet to print off computer (have to get ink cartridge). UCK I SAY!~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 18 Feb 13 - 07:54 AM HUGS! I say |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Feb 13 - 09:16 AM :~) I have got to get this boxed up crap out of my living room. It is boxed but the thing needs to go to another room out of my sight! Thing is I am not sure where I want it! Oh I know-- the ARCHIVE storage in the way-way-wayback part of the house! LOL, I was gonna put it in my office that I am already feeling like not going into! OK I will ask Hardi to carry it out there for us-- it's too heavy now for me! Note to self: As advised by an experienced friend, it is all sorted by provider and then by date within those groupings. I noted which ones were originals and which ones copies, and whether I had annotated any of them or left them un-noted/unread. ALso the files that go with them on my LR computer were specified right on the records, in case Hardi needs to know where to look for detailed notes. Yet to do-- get a printer cartridge and print those computer files, plus relevant emails, and box them into all this as well. Best case-- I never need all of this paper. Worst case-- it is in a handy form to tote off to a lawyer. In between-- CLAUDIA. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 19 Feb 13 - 11:25 AM Here is Miss Claudia's report on her plan to chop out the first $30,000 of that $51K bill: I have some good news. I called [the hospital and spoke with Dxxx, the supervisor of Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) insurance for the facility. I asked for a corrected bill reflecting that the covered surgery was performed on 9/13/2012 (not 9/14 as billed), and admission to the facility was on the same day. Dxxx told me that this corrected bill is already 'in the works' and will be filed with BCBS. I asked when I could follow up regarding the payment of the claim. She expected this payment to be finalized around mid March. Whap! Slash! ZAP! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 20 Feb 13 - 09:21 AM hooray |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Feb 13 - 02:03 PM Got ink--- and oh frabjous joy--Hotmail will allow me to print a whole pageful of individual emails with one zap of the mouse!!! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Feb 13 - 10:17 AM I am thru the first ream of paper and on the way to the second. I quite like seeing that I have as much printed matter on hand about my experience as the medicos sent me!!! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Feb 13 - 10:18 AM And I am printing this thread too! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Feb 13 - 10:47 AM Answering a question asked upthread, in the US one can get their own Ashley or Claudia via http://www.healthproponent.com/... if one finds that the purchaser of their insurance group's plan has not contracted with Health Advocate or their health system has no Health Navigator. ~Suaan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Feb 13 - 09:24 AM UCK!!!Finishing the email printing is bad enough but today I am also gathering all the photos taken during my recovery and printing a few for the file.... NOW I can see some Q's about the doc's care that may go into a lawsuit. Nononononoooooooooooo..... OK Jesus take this one off my shoulders.... UCK! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Feb 13 - 02:13 PM Last pages exiting printer. Ready to wrap and stow these puppies in the Archive Dept. UCK Went thru 2 full reams of paper, part of another, a color ink cartridge, and 1-1/2 black cartridges. UCK Thank you Jesus!!! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 25 Feb 13 - 02:01 AM a marathon job! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Mar 13 - 10:59 AM The hospital's first re-submitted bill seems not to have arrived at Blue Cross so they had to submit it again-- which re-sets the appeals clock (that's good). ╔══════════....๑ ƸӜƷ ๑♥๑ ƸӜƷ ๑....═══════════╗ ღ♥ღƸӜƷღ♥ღ Have A Lovely & Blessed Week. ღ♥ღƸӜƷღ♥ღ ╚══════════....๑ ƸӜƷ ๑♥๑ ƸӜƷ ๑....═══════════╝ ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Ebbie Date: 26 Mar 13 - 03:28 PM Susan, you are looking GOOD. I foresee the day when you will look back and marvel at how well you feel- and ARE! Too bad you had to go through the extraneous stuff but congratulations, for a' that. (Now, if I can just get myself motivated...) |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 02 Sep 13 - 10:59 AM The traumatic surgery/complications' memories and phantom, amputee-like sensations are coming to the surface now as the first anniversary approaches. While these are pesky in realtime, they are also the bodymind signal that a significant state of healing has actually occurred. I am told I should plan for two years-plus to feel "well." I do feel/function better in many respects but am trying to be realistic as Year Two begins... ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Crowhugger Date: 02 Sep 13 - 08:09 PM Well I missed this whole thread...what year! If it helps any, paraphrased here is how I had post-op abdominal pain explained to me: The nerve supply in the abdomen exists mainly to support digestion, elimination, and the lives of the organs that carry out these functions. Those nerves are pisspoor at accurate transmission of pain. Same in the thorax. That's why people feel like they have indigestion when it's a heart attack, or nausea when the abs are just exhausted from to many sit-ups, or get sharp, debilitating pain ( or roving aches or u-name-it) during healing. I can't vouch for its accuracy, just that it's how an MD explained it to me. More physical activity improves the messaging (decreases foolish signals) but it'll likely be months to years until one day you realize you haven't had this or that weird pain for the longest time. Happily, bad anniversaries do pass. It's good to indulge your emotions a fair bit for the first one--part of processing it all. Many hugs! |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Bobert Date: 02 Sep 13 - 08:12 PM Onward and upward, WYSuzie... Love ya... B:~) |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Crowhugger Date: 12 Sep 13 - 01:49 PM How ya doin' Wiz? |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Sep 13 - 02:58 PM CH, Well, gosh-- it's my anniversary, isn't it? What a dear you are for asking!!! I had a great co-counseling session (www.rc.org) Monday AM that blew out a lot of the anger, and all week I have been cleaning like a madwoman-- MIL is here for my annual Fall Cleaning. Most years I clean and then fall back into not cleaning. This year I think I have enogh of a metabolism to keep it up, and to keep the scar adhesions from continuing to grow I need to walk. A lot. Like behind a vacuum cleaner and a dusting rag. All in all, it's good to be "this side of the dirt." Hardi has a surprise for me for tomorrow-- I think it's being spoiled at a spa-- in honor of the event. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Dec 13 - 01:16 PM Today is the first anniversary of getting out of the nursing home and starting to rebuild life in this house around wellness, now that thyroid treatment has made such a difference. I'm deeply grateful for all the support that helped me get as far as I have; I still have a ways to go. Since then, tho, we have found and bought a vacation cottage in the Ohio town where we've vacayed every year since... I dunno, a LONG time. The closing was last week. I bug out with a load of furniture Jan. 3. I'm madly (and thoughtfully) packing. Doing this the week of Christmas, since we are a clergy couple, is... interesting. (Our wedding was also in what is Hardi's busiest season, so it IS an anniversary project....) We have an open cargo trailer that I will tow down-- hoping we get no precip or snow if we must, and NO RAIN. A waking insight today was: if I pack things in canvas trunks we already HAVE, the contents will stay DRY (enough) on the open trailer if I FIRST put the contents into re-usable TRASH bags of which we have more than enough!!! I have 3 right off the bat: a huge trunk-shaped item I used to haul pillows in, at my sickest; 2 wedge-shaped, more structured items that zip and can be laid down flat or stood up. The trunk-shaped one can sit on top of furniture. The other two can stand up along the sides to help brace other items. There is one more piece I may use also, if I can clear a path to it for the MenzCrew: a wide, resin, garbage-can "garage" that could sit at the tongue end, with bagged linens inside of it-- easily fetched out without even taking the thing off the trailer-- it could just stay there till the next trip. (Tall #1 son is meeting me at the cottage to help.) That next trip will be Hardi and I together in February-- he says flying down to drive back with me, this trip, will not work. That's OK-- a Valentine Vacay Week works!!! Holiday elf tasks are actually done TOO (I cannot believe it), in time for Xmas Eve. Also cannot believe how far I have come since discharge from the nursing home last Xmas Eve. I'm planning to attend at least one service tonight, maybe both. Love, ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chaplet of Divine Mercy (WYS surgery) From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 24 Dec 13 - 08:31 PM excellent report & excellent planning. It sounds like you are really enjoy life. A proper diagnosis certainly helps! Onward & upward love & hugs sandra |
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