Just wanted to post an update. The day after Christmas I passed out and broke my hip in three places. I had surgery the day after and they put a plate and 3 pins in. I am now in a s...
Ive been really sick with pnumonia, plurisy, and nodules in my lungs for 4 weeks! At one time my fever was 105 degrees. Im feeling better, but they can still hear the pnumonia and the plu...
I just got out of the hospital...again. They had me in ICU for a while because my heart rate was 219!!! My heart could have died of cardiac arrest. My BP at one time was 79/49. ...
You will have to click on some of the blank pictures to see the photos.Love you all, my friends!
I uploaded more pictures in my gallery. Just go to my profile above, then "scrapbook", then "recently updated." That should work.
Hello all~I just got home from the hospital. I spent a day in the ICU with a pulse rate of 190 (normal is 60-90) and a blood pressure of 70/48. Not good. They say it was because of ...
I have had some trouble with my J-Tube (the feeding tube in my stomach). It got clogged and I wasnt able to do my tube feedings that night. I was dehydrated and terribly weak. Thank...
Actually Im in more pain thats making me feel bummbed. My PEG tube is killing me. I have to walk bent over.I want to thank everyone for your kind, sweet and supportive replies.&...
I know I just updated yesterday, but Im bored and trying to distract myself from the pain. My collapsed lung is quite painful today. I get another xray done on Thursday. Im also try...
Hello all~~Im sorry I have not posted in a while. Things have been a little chaotic. I have had 3 different port-a-caths in my chest (for easy access for an IV since I go into the hospital so o...
Hello my friends,I am so sorry it has taken me so long to update. And a huge thank you to all of my patient loving friends whom have sent me such nice emails.I have to go to the hospital once (...
HELLO ALL~ Heres a little update. Since my last post, I have been in and out of the hospital 6 times! Since September I have spent nearly 80% of the time in the hospital. I would ge...
Ive been lying here in my hospital bed doing a lot of thinking. Thinking about, and realizing, just how very close I had come to dying. My doctor told me I have the worst kind of pneumoni...
hi all~well im back in the hospital. i am quite sick. it started with a staph infection on my cheek. it was about the size of an egg. i started to run a fever that would not go away...
Hello all~I want to thank everyone for the thoughtful replies and prayers! They really do help. I am currently at Mercy Regional Hospital in Manhattan (KS). I got here on ...
I went to Omaha to the Nebraska Medical Center last week to begin their intestinal rehab/transplant program. On Monday I went through test after test from 7 a.m. until almost 4:00 in the aftern...
Well, Im in the hospital with an intestinal blockage. Hopefully it will work itself out before they have to put an NG tube in, or worse--have to do surgey. Im in alot of pain and extremel...
I have to call the Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha) on Monday with my decision to enter their "transplant program." I will be there for about a week doing the "evaluation pha...
I returned home from the hospital on Friday. They did some tests, but mainly gave me meds to control my misery (dehydration, severe pain, nausea, and diarrhea, etc.). They are referr...
Well, once again I was so weak, in terrible pain, dehydrated, nauseated, having terrible diarrea, and even vomiting up blood (plus I got a hole in my PEG, that I had to be admitted me to the hos...
I have deleted many of my user pics, as I have come to realize I do NOT want my journal to resemble a "pro anorexia" site. They were pics of a way-too-thin, e...
Happy Easter to all!! I hope you are all well and good. I wanted to update you on things with me. A month ago today I had emergency life-saving surgery. My intestines were dying (for how long that ha...
Hi all of my cyber friends! I am so sorry I am just getting an update to you all. Seems like evey other week I am in the hospital (even over the holidays!). I just got home last week from a 11 day st...
Hello everyone,Wanted to let everyone know that last week I was found unresponsive by my mom and she and my oldest sister took me to the ER. To make a very long story shorter, they believe I had two ...
I was in the hospital again these last few days (my 3rd or 4th time in about as many weeks). My doctors are very baffled as what to do. He really wants me to go into a nursing home because he is so a...
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