DiggsUK Posted February 26, 2006 Report Posted February 26, 2006 Thanks BF. Small spuds in comparison with other's woes, but I am not looking forward to it all the same. Coincidently a bloke I know is on the same list, so I will have a hand to hold (we may end up holding each other's) at least..... Regards
Foxy Posted February 26, 2006 Report Posted February 26, 2006 Rather you than me... Oh, thats right Good luck...when is it?
MarcM Posted February 27, 2006 Report Posted February 27, 2006 Thanks for the involuntary chill up my spine!
blind-fitter Posted February 27, 2006 Report Posted February 27, 2006 Thanks BF. Small spuds in comparison with other's... Not to worry, Diggs,. I'm sure the surgeon will find them.... Coincidently a bloke I know is on the same list... (we may end up holding each other's) ..... Oooh er, missus. Titter ye not!
DiggsUK Posted February 27, 2006 Report Posted February 27, 2006 Thursday is the day, 08.00 the appointed time... It is a teaching hospital so I expect an audience and applause when I pass out....
Kevin Posted February 28, 2006 Report Posted February 28, 2006 Good luck , Diggs ! - and hope your doctor has a gentler bed-side manner than the Blindfitter's ! ( still squirming just thinking about it )
Shawna Posted March 1, 2006 Report Posted March 1, 2006 just a quick update. This has been maybe one of the longest and more excruciating days of my life. Mom's leg was removed today. She's in pain like I've never seen - mental anguish along with the physical. She's at the hospital now, and for the most part she's doing okay. Although she is starving herself to death. She weighs 85 lbs, and they are going to try to get her to agree to a feeding tube so she can get the nutrients she needs to heal. But she's not happy about it. Anyway, I guess maybe the important thing is that she's alive. However, at what quality of life we have yet to discover.
steel magnolia Posted March 1, 2006 Report Posted March 1, 2006 Shawna, you and your mom are in my thoughts and prayers.
Farin Posted March 1, 2006 Report Posted March 1, 2006 Oh Shawna i feel with you. When my grandmother was in hospital a few weeks before she died, she didn't want to eat either. It was a very hard time for all of us (especially my mother)
Jenny Posted March 1, 2006 Report Posted March 1, 2006 I hope your mother starts feeling better, Shawna. It's natural that she'd be depressed after such a surgery, but in time, she will learn that she is still very much alive and a whole person, and will come around. All my best wishes for a speedy recovery go out to her.
Tenacious_Peaches Posted March 1, 2006 Report Posted March 1, 2006 Shawna, I'm so sorry you have to go through this. My thoughts are with you and your family.
daslied Posted March 1, 2006 Report Posted March 1, 2006 My thoughts are with you and your mother as well, Shawna.
Elvish Posted March 1, 2006 Report Posted March 1, 2006 Hope things get better soon, Shawna... Me too - thoughts, hopes and prayers all with you and your family today...
Shawna Posted March 2, 2006 Report Posted March 2, 2006 your thoughts and prayers have been heard, I think. Better day today. Not a whole lot better, but a bit, anyway, and it's baby steps at this point so every little bit helps. thanks everybody. Have I told you lately you're the best?
SoulGirl Posted March 3, 2006 Report Posted March 3, 2006 shawna, i'm sending lots of love to you. i would like to ask for some thoughts, hopes, and prayers for the first time. a dear friend of my mother's passed away last night after a long battle over the course of years with cancer. she was an amazing woman, strong, inspiring, vivacious and full of life. i would like to ask for your thoughts for her friends who supported her over the years, for your hopes for her sons, who will need to rebuild their lives and for your prayers that she will rest in peace. thank you.
Shawna Posted March 3, 2006 Report Posted March 3, 2006 you've got it. My thoughts are with your mother - and her friend's sons... why does the bad stuff always happen to the good people?
SoulGirl Posted March 3, 2006 Report Posted March 3, 2006 i don't know shawna honey but at least good people have other good people to depend on in their times of need ((((((hug)))))
Jenny Posted March 6, 2006 Report Posted March 6, 2006 My mother-in-law is having health problems, and she may be admitted to the hospital this week for evaluation. We think she had a "silent" stroke and is now suffering a bout of depression. If she truly is depressed, she will need round the clock supervision....we both work full time, and my husband's brother will be pretty useless, so it's going to be hard emotionally and financially for us. My husband and I had a talk last night about the course of action he needs to take. We don't want to jump the gun, since she has not been evaluated yet, but we both want to be prepared. No matter what, the next few weeks will be emotionally taxing for us.
Tenacious_Peaches Posted March 6, 2006 Report Posted March 6, 2006 Jenny, I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully the news will be better than what you are preparing for, but you and your husband are wise to talk about the possibilities now.
edna Posted March 6, 2006 Report Posted March 6, 2006 Good luck, Jenny... I know you´ll be strong and positive so the situation will not be overwhelming.
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