to Susan:
Many prayers and thoughts to you and your parents. By-passes bi-,
tri,- quad-, when they have to be done do them all. My dad was a
postponer now going strong at 80 (and he is a doctor). May The Lady's
Mantle Cover you all!!
pax,
john mclaughlin
On Jul 4, 12:10 pm, Julianne Toomey-Kautz <Juliann...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> As Susan, says below, it never rains but it pours:
>
> Hi all,
> It never rains but it pours. Things remain pretty
> much the same with my mom except that we got her moved
> to our hospital (Rush North Shore for those who know
> the area) so now she's with our doctors which she had
> indicated with squeezes and raised legs that she
> wanted. We haven't done the trache yet because
> apparently thanks to insurance rules (and we have good
> Blue Cross PPO expensive insurance that permits most
> stuff) once you have a trache you get kicked out of
> hospital and sent to a nursing home/long-term vent
> unit. So we're iffy about that since we don't know
> if that's the best for mom right now when she still
> has infections. And we've been trying to get her to
> our hospital and our doctors for ages but couldn't go
> from one hospital to another after a trache.
> And now we have a new problem. My dad has been
> complaining of shoulder, back, and arm pains for a
> while...worse since mom got sick. He kept saying it
> was arthritis pain and gobbling arthritis meds. He
> had an EKG in April that was okay and an okay stress
> stress test in January, but I did make him take some
> Nitro last week because I was worried that it could be
> heart. Thank God I dragged him to the cardiologist
> today because he has three occluded arterties and
> needs a triple-bypass, possibly a quad. I've always
> suspected he'd have to have this one day because the
> Werner men all seem to have heart trouble but his
> timing is lousy. So at least now they're in the same
> hospital. I know this is a fairly common operation
> (Dr. Meg says it's more common than appendectomies
> today), but I'll be glad when it's safely over and
> he's recovering nicely. He's in good health otherwise
> so there shouldn't be any problems.
> But I need more prayers please!
> Thanks!
> Susan
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