Good Vibes Needed Please,

Subject: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 10:43 AM

LAst night at 8pm (GMT), thursday, my son Francy, was rushed to hospital with breathlessness and accelerated heart rate to the triage dept of the Royal Berks Hospital.

Any well wishes sent his way, good vibes, prayers; will all be apprecated. Thanks Catters

Wrinkles

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: GUEST,Sorcha
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 11:10 AM

Oh, Barb, vibes coming from here......hope all is OK soon!

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: GUEST,rumanci
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 11:53 AM

Thinking of you both - stay strong
rum

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: GUEST,Jeanie
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 12:22 PM

All good wishes
- jeanie

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Tinker
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 02:11 PM

Blessings and Light to you and your dear ones.

tinker

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: open mike
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 03:09 PM

hope it is minor and can be corrected simply...
they can do wonders these days...
best of wishes....
Laurel

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Dave Earl
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 03:13 PM

Wrinlkes

We met in chat room t'other night.

Hope your lad makes full recovery soon.

Dave

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 03:22 PM

Thinking of you Barbara

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: fat B****rd
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 03:51 PM

Best regards from Charlie.

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Dipsodeb
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 04:04 PM

All my good vibes coming your way for both you and your son I hope he gets better soon.

Blessings
~Debs~

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 04:30 PM

So sorry Wrinkles. You have my thoughts and prayers.
Mary

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Azizi
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 05:28 PM

My prayers for your son's speedy recovery!

Azizi

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: DrWord
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 05:31 PM

Wrinkles
holding Francy in my prayers

be kind to yourself
dennis

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Peace
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 05:32 PM

He's in my prayers, Barb, and so are you.

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Joybell
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 05:44 PM

My thoughts too, from over here. Best wishes. Joy

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Alba
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 06:01 PM

Barbara, holding Francy in the Light.
My thoughts are with you both and your family.
Love and Blessings and all the Best Vibes I can muster from here in Maine
Jude

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 06:16 PM

Just caught up with this - having been working and Folk Clubbing !!
Hope all is now sorted barb and give Francie my best wishes !

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 07:08 PM

Good vibes from one Folkaholick to another, man.

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Folkie101
Date: 19 Mar 05 - 12:56 AM

Believe in miracles and healing. Hang in there :)

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Wrinkles
Date: 19 Mar 05 - 05:26 AM

Many many thanks to all ;-)

Francy's being moved today from the Royal Berk's A&E/CDU to Minster Ward over at the Battle, for a few days, maybe a week.

His breathing's still doing Darth Vader ipmressions, but his heart rate's down to 145bpm(av).

I'm sure your continued good thoughts and prayers are helping no end ;-)

Wrinkles (Barbara)

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Mar 05 - 09:11 AM

Prayers ghoing up over here in Connecticut.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Mar 05 - 01:02 PM

They really can work wonders these days. Lots of good thoughts and healing being sent your way from Colorado.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: gnu
Date: 19 Mar 05 - 01:36 PM

Thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: CarolC
Date: 19 Mar 05 - 03:56 PM

Best thoughts and wishes for the best possible outcome, Wrinkles, and for comfort for you, your son, and all of your loved ones during this time.

His symptoms sound a lot like what I experience when I'm having a severe allergic reaction to something I've eaten. Are they checking for that possibility? (I've been to the hospital emergency room on a few occasions for the same symptoms, and the Drs. never figured out I was having a severe allergic reaction. It was only after several years of my own efforts that I got that sorted out.)

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Mar 05 - 04:12 PM

Bright blessings Barbara.......I hope everything will be fine...I'm sure it will

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Huggy bear
Date: 19 Mar 05 - 06:44 PM

Good wishes to both of you. I hope your son continues to improve and that he gets home soon.
HB

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Tinker
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 03:25 PM

Still in our thoughts and prayers.....

tinker

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 04:00 PM

The vibes are on thier way. Good luck1

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 04:42 PM

Keep us posted as to how he goes.... take care of yourself too.

LTS

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Col K
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 07:35 PM

Just read this for first time.
Great and good thoughts to you and your son Barbara, heres hoping he soon returns home fully fit.
Col

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 07:56 PM

Also check into "Anxiety Reaction" ( also called "Anxiety Dosorder" or "Panic Attack")... Sounds like classic symptoms...

I had a bout of it back about 25 years ago. Real scarey. But readily treatable...

If it turns out to be that, either PM me or have your son PM and I will relate more information about it...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 08:08 PM

Hope everything is OK. All good wishes from here.

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: GUEST,Partridge
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 05:03 AM

Thinking of you both

love

Pat x

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Wrinkles
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 06:48 AM

Latest update is that his heart rate has been reduced by drugs to a "mere" 89bpm at rest (still a bit high) and moved to a non-critical ward.

Hoever the standard of care there has me very concerned. He spliped and fell after getting out of bed, knocked hinself unconscious, and when he awoke (unable to get up of course) it was over two hours before a nurse answered his call.

Furthermore they've moved him onto a ward where none of the nursing staff are quailifed to admisinster his regular medication!

eventually, by 11am this morning they found a doctor able to admisnister his 7am injection! At least that Dr was concientious enough to order a head x-ray to see if he was badly concussed.

Later that Dr will return with an "assesment team" to do god knows what, but lets hope it's something good!

He still has the chest infection, but it does not seem to be getting worse; which is something to be thankful for.

He sends all of you his thanks for your good wishes and prayers; knowing that there's folk who care has helped him face this adversity.
Thank you all.

Barbara

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 07:08 AM

This sounds so hard Barbara - good luck in coping. my thoughts and best wishes are with you -

freda

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 07:30 AM

Good Godess Wrinkles! I imagine you are doing a lot of jumping up and down and shouting! I should be....

Hope all goes well

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 07:45 AM

Sure you are rushed off your feet, but document everything and put in a complaint on your son's discharge.

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Wrinkles
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 05:04 AM

latest update; infection getting worse (Drs took him off intravenious antibiotics which were working before full course was done and put him on pills which don't work); heart rate back up to the 140/150s.

Still lots of problems getting his regular meds - thery're allways late (5 hours late in one example) and up to 10 mg less than prescribed. This particular hospital does not approve of this type of treatment and they're doing everything they can to screw it up for him.

He's on a recovery heart ward and he should be on an acute observation pulmanary ward. There's been plans to move him but as yet nowts happend.

Discrimination and abuse have been problems too; but I can not be there 24/7 to intervine on his behalf.

It's been hell for him too and these few days have been the most stressfull I can remember living through.

Moneywise the hospital's 24/7 one quid an hour parking charges do not help; just going to and from the hospitals and staying there with him has emptied our accounts and overdrawn our overdrafts -; Recovery after this is going to be slow slow slow.

I've hidden just what deep shit we're getting into from Francy because he'd blame himself for it and that would not be fair at all.

Sorry to have been on such a downer folks, I just needed to vent a bit. Thanks for being understanding

Barbara

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: RangerSteve
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 06:20 AM

Here's hopes for a quick recovery, and better care from the hospital.

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Wrinkles
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 07:21 AM

latest update, and hopefully the penultimate one ;-)

Well P.A.L.S. have intervened for Francy and sorted most things out.

Francy's on the right type of ward now (where he can get appropriate care) and he's getting his regular meds again.

They even got him a Physio to show him how to keep his lungs clear, and he's breathing better than he has for years.

The new docs say they'll have his infection cleared up in a few days (which will bring his heart rate back down again) and he should be home before the end of the week ;-)

Just his knowing that all you Mudcatters were thinking of him and wishing him well helped him endure the early mixed up days and he sends you all his thanks; to which I add my own ; Thank You All.

Barbara

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: GUEST,T-boy
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 08:12 AM

Re the car park charges:
Try asking for a reduction, or even a pass.

When my mum was in hospital (St. Peters, Chertsey, not too far from Royal Berks.), we were eventually given a pass to keep the cost down.

Made quite a difference !.

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Alba
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 10:58 AM

Barbara glad to hear that Francy is on the recovery road.
Sending you both my Best Wishes and Blessings
Jude

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Wrinkles
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 05:01 AM

HE'S HOME ;-)

The infection is cleared up and he's out of danger, so he was discharged with a load of medicines for self-treatment.

Our heartfelt thanks to you all.

You made us feel we were not alone, and that's a gift that can not be valued, it is beyond price.

Again, thank you.

Barbara and Francy

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: Tig
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 05:56 PM

Only just picked up on this since I've been away looking after my Dad.

Glad to hear he's home and over the worst - but healing hugs on the way just the same. I expect YOU probably need them as much as him after all the stress.

Lots of love and hugs
Tig xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Good Vibes Needed Please,
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 08:14 PM

Brilliant news!
Skipy