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OT: Deb's Grand Day Out!
- Thread starter OBIO
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Bill Kestell
Charter Member
Yea ... same here .. but now you REALLY gotta' behave!
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hewman100
Guest
Fantastic news there Tim! Hope things continue to improve and you have a memorable festive season
kelticheart
Charter Member
Tim,
these two and a half pages are the best love story I ever read, saw or heard of. Including the first ones, when you started telling us what was going on with Debbie back in August.
May the Lord bless your and Debbie's love for each other, I think that was the cornerstone spiritual energy with which the successful outcome of this whole ordeal was built.
Although I am not very present in this forum these days - I do hope this busy-bee period of mine will slow down sometime soon -, I followed anxiously all developments of Debbie's illness, always hoping for positive news and a speedy recovery.
I can safely state SOH's community prayers were heard in the upper floors.
Let me wish you both one blast of
a Christmas time 
, hoping Debbie's steps towards a 100% normal life will go faster and faster.
Here's my toast to this beautiful happy ending! :ernae:
Cheers!
KH :friday:
these two and a half pages are the best love story I ever read, saw or heard of. Including the first ones, when you started telling us what was going on with Debbie back in August.
May the Lord bless your and Debbie's love for each other, I think that was the cornerstone spiritual energy with which the successful outcome of this whole ordeal was built.
Although I am not very present in this forum these days - I do hope this busy-bee period of mine will slow down sometime soon -, I followed anxiously all developments of Debbie's illness, always hoping for positive news and a speedy recovery.
I can safely state SOH's community prayers were heard in the upper floors.
Let me wish you both one blast of
a Christmas time , hoping Debbie's steps towards a 100% normal life will go faster and faster.Here's my toast to this beautiful happy ending! :ernae:
Cheers!
KH :friday:
Keltic
Thanks! Your post brought tears to my eyes and to the eyes of my darling Debra.
Deb has been home for a week now...and doing very well....and she has quickly resumed the art of bossing me around. Definitely my wife! She is so glad to be home, to be sleeping in our bed with me beside her, to be holding the doggies, to be watching the fish, to be playing with the ferrets. Christmas decorations are up...but on a more subdued level. No tree...just a few nicely decorated wreaths, some lights. Too much going on to worry about finding a place to set up the 6 foot tree.
Deb did give me quite a fright this evening...she fell. She did not get hurt, did not hit her head or anything. She was trying to get up out of the chair, on her own, and simply slid off the edge of the chair, landed on her right knee (which does have a bit of rug burn on it), then kind of rolled onto her back side a bit hard. I heard the THUD and ran to her...she looks up from the floor at me and says "I fell". I looked at her and said "Yeah, I see that." I took a good ten minutes checking her over and asking her if she was hurt, if she hit her head, and she assured me she was fine.
Did get a bright bit of news today...the insurance company finally got around to paying the 127 thousand dollar bill for her brain surgery! There was simply a mix up in the paper work that a nice lady named Dawn was able to see through and made one phone call and the company issued the check! Bless you Dawn.
Deb is loving the fact that I am doing all the cooking, all the cleaning, all the laundry....but I am sure to tell her that that situation is not a permanent thing. She will have to get herself in gear at some point and make me some of her earth-shatteringly good spaghetti. Deb's spaghetti sauce takes 6, maybe 8 hours to make....it is SO GOOD! My sister-in-law, who hates spaghetti, loves Deb's spaghetti....it's that good.
Sunday afternoon we went to the other sister-in-law's house for a nice Sunday lunch....peppered pork loin, home made mac and cheese (the BOMB!), fresh baked rolls and home made Christmas cookies (the ancient family secret recipe Rum Balls....Oh My GAWD...were they incredible). Deb got into the car and out of the car like it was NOTHING. She even did it like a "normal" person...put her left leg in, swing into the back seat, pull the right leg in. No help from me at all. After lunch, the Wii was fired up and Deb made the statement that playing Wii bowling and tennis would be good therapy for her right hand and arm...which is still a bit on the weak side. She has been trying to get me to buy a Wii for a while now...and with the statement that it would be good therapy she sealed the deal. How can I say no to something that is good therapy? I just hope she doesn't say that getting a third dog or a third ferret or a 4th fish tank will be good therapy...I shudder the thought. So, after the Christmas shopping is done and it is safe to return to the stores...I will go out and buy a Wii for Deb...and to help her therapy along...I will subject myself to playing Wii bowling and Wii tennis...while I am an avid video gamer...I rank the Wii just a bit higher than PONG.
OBIO
Thanks! Your post brought tears to my eyes and to the eyes of my darling Debra.
Deb has been home for a week now...and doing very well....and she has quickly resumed the art of bossing me around. Definitely my wife! She is so glad to be home, to be sleeping in our bed with me beside her, to be holding the doggies, to be watching the fish, to be playing with the ferrets. Christmas decorations are up...but on a more subdued level. No tree...just a few nicely decorated wreaths, some lights. Too much going on to worry about finding a place to set up the 6 foot tree.
Deb did give me quite a fright this evening...she fell. She did not get hurt, did not hit her head or anything. She was trying to get up out of the chair, on her own, and simply slid off the edge of the chair, landed on her right knee (which does have a bit of rug burn on it), then kind of rolled onto her back side a bit hard. I heard the THUD and ran to her...she looks up from the floor at me and says "I fell". I looked at her and said "Yeah, I see that." I took a good ten minutes checking her over and asking her if she was hurt, if she hit her head, and she assured me she was fine.
Did get a bright bit of news today...the insurance company finally got around to paying the 127 thousand dollar bill for her brain surgery! There was simply a mix up in the paper work that a nice lady named Dawn was able to see through and made one phone call and the company issued the check! Bless you Dawn.
Deb is loving the fact that I am doing all the cooking, all the cleaning, all the laundry....but I am sure to tell her that that situation is not a permanent thing. She will have to get herself in gear at some point and make me some of her earth-shatteringly good spaghetti. Deb's spaghetti sauce takes 6, maybe 8 hours to make....it is SO GOOD! My sister-in-law, who hates spaghetti, loves Deb's spaghetti....it's that good.
Sunday afternoon we went to the other sister-in-law's house for a nice Sunday lunch....peppered pork loin, home made mac and cheese (the BOMB!), fresh baked rolls and home made Christmas cookies (the ancient family secret recipe Rum Balls....Oh My GAWD...were they incredible). Deb got into the car and out of the car like it was NOTHING. She even did it like a "normal" person...put her left leg in, swing into the back seat, pull the right leg in. No help from me at all. After lunch, the Wii was fired up and Deb made the statement that playing Wii bowling and tennis would be good therapy for her right hand and arm...which is still a bit on the weak side. She has been trying to get me to buy a Wii for a while now...and with the statement that it would be good therapy she sealed the deal. How can I say no to something that is good therapy? I just hope she doesn't say that getting a third dog or a third ferret or a 4th fish tank will be good therapy...I shudder the thought. So, after the Christmas shopping is done and it is safe to return to the stores...I will go out and buy a Wii for Deb...and to help her therapy along...I will subject myself to playing Wii bowling and Wii tennis...while I am an avid video gamer...I rank the Wii just a bit higher than PONG.
OBIO
Bill Kestell
Charter Member
Gosh ... that's all good news. After all that stuff, getting your lives back to normal is really what it's all about. (been there too often). I'm just so happy and thankful that things are at this point ... and can only get better.
SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT...PRAYER NEEDED
Woke up between 5 and 5:30 this morning to find Deb in a bad way...turns out she was in the end stages of a seizure. Scared the bloody hell out of me it did. She was totally unresponsive, had a build up of fluids in her mouth and upper airway. I got her sat up and cradled in my arms and her breathing improved.....Then I began yelling my nephew's name at the top of my lungs to wake him up to call 911....that boy could sleep through a direct atomic strke...my throat is sore from the yelling. He finally woke up and called 911. When the squad arrived, Deb was still unresponsive, but within 5 minutes she began coming around slowly.....then within just a few mintues she came ouit of the daze...by the time we got her down stairs to the gurney, she was able to stand up and get onto the gurnery by herself.
A CT scan shows no real change in her brain/cranium since the surgeries....well not changes that are out of normal or unexpected. The docs and nurses all said that it is common for people who have undergone such extenive brain surgery or severe head traumas to have seizures....in many cases it is just a single seizure or just a short span with a few seizures...kind of like the brain coughing.
Deb is scheduled for an EEG tomorrow morning at 7:30 and has been given a perscription for an anti-seizure medication.
She is home, eating McDonalds Biscuits and Gravy. At this time she is as good as ever. But at 5:30ish...I was afraid that I was loosing my sweetie, my entire world.
Tim
Woke up between 5 and 5:30 this morning to find Deb in a bad way...turns out she was in the end stages of a seizure. Scared the bloody hell out of me it did. She was totally unresponsive, had a build up of fluids in her mouth and upper airway. I got her sat up and cradled in my arms and her breathing improved.....Then I began yelling my nephew's name at the top of my lungs to wake him up to call 911....that boy could sleep through a direct atomic strke...my throat is sore from the yelling. He finally woke up and called 911. When the squad arrived, Deb was still unresponsive, but within 5 minutes she began coming around slowly.....then within just a few mintues she came ouit of the daze...by the time we got her down stairs to the gurney, she was able to stand up and get onto the gurnery by herself.
A CT scan shows no real change in her brain/cranium since the surgeries....well not changes that are out of normal or unexpected. The docs and nurses all said that it is common for people who have undergone such extenive brain surgery or severe head traumas to have seizures....in many cases it is just a single seizure or just a short span with a few seizures...kind of like the brain coughing.
Deb is scheduled for an EEG tomorrow morning at 7:30 and has been given a perscription for an anti-seizure medication.
She is home, eating McDonalds Biscuits and Gravy. At this time she is as good as ever. But at 5:30ish...I was afraid that I was loosing my sweetie, my entire world.
Tim
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hewman100
Guest
Still thinking of you both here on this side of the water Tim.
Jagdflieger
Jr. Admin
Obio,
How is Deb today? Hope last night was better than the night before.
How is Deb today? Hope last night was better than the night before.
Deb is doing well today...tired, which is expected after a seizure...they take the fire out of a person for a few days. And she was up early to make it to the hospital for two tests....EEG and a Modified Barium Swallow. The EEG took about an hour and a half and the results will not be known until the test is read and deciphered by Deb's neurologist. The Modified Barium Swallow was to see how well Deb's swallowing is progressing.....a bit better than the last one...but still not quite strong enough to get off the slightly thickened liquids. Another 4 to 6 weeks may see her drinking normal liquids.
She is taking a little nap right now, waiting for me to make her soup (simmering on the stove as I type this). She wants to go shopping at the local Salvation Army Thrift Store this afternoon...but since we had to surrender both cars due to financial scale backs...we are without wheels and have to rely on family for rides....and everyone is busy this afternoon. I was going to go to a neighboring town today to check out a very clean Monte Carlo (1995, no dents, no rust, spotless interior, needs a tune up.....$900) but with the medical tests and the freezing rain, the car shopping has been put on hold until next week.
Deb is doing great all in all...and each day she gets a little stronger, gains more feeling in the right side of her face as the nerve regenerates, her right eye lids are almost fully functional and she can just about, but not quite, close her right eye all the way now. She climbed into and out of our brother-in-law's 4 wheel drive Suburban this morning and into and out of her dad's full size Chevy truck like it was nothing at all to do.
It's great having her home again...all is right in my universe again...or at least 90% so.
OBIO
She is taking a little nap right now, waiting for me to make her soup (simmering on the stove as I type this). She wants to go shopping at the local Salvation Army Thrift Store this afternoon...but since we had to surrender both cars due to financial scale backs...we are without wheels and have to rely on family for rides....and everyone is busy this afternoon. I was going to go to a neighboring town today to check out a very clean Monte Carlo (1995, no dents, no rust, spotless interior, needs a tune up.....$900) but with the medical tests and the freezing rain, the car shopping has been put on hold until next week.
Deb is doing great all in all...and each day she gets a little stronger, gains more feeling in the right side of her face as the nerve regenerates, her right eye lids are almost fully functional and she can just about, but not quite, close her right eye all the way now. She climbed into and out of our brother-in-law's 4 wheel drive Suburban this morning and into and out of her dad's full size Chevy truck like it was nothing at all to do.
It's great having her home again...all is right in my universe again...or at least 90% so.
OBIO
Bill Kestell
Charter Member
Thanks for the better news, and God bless you both. (and have fun shopping)
What a day Deb had. Spent the afternoon and early evening at her mom's house for Christmas. Not only did she climb the 3 steps from the garage into the house like a trooper, but she also went down the full flight of stairs to the family/rec room in the basement, played Wii, then played Wii Fit (did the hoola hoop bit), then she climbed the 13 steps back up to the main level. I was there giving her a safety net, but the climbing power was all hers...and I had to tell her to SLOW DOWN!
Have noticed the last couple of days that Deb can almost close her right eye...just a sliver away from full closure. And she is regaining her saliva...which is driving her nuts as she is used to her mouth being dry...with the saliva being produced in normal amounts she thinks she is drooling.
Gets better and better every day....and she said that today was her best Christmas ever.
OBIO
Have noticed the last couple of days that Deb can almost close her right eye...just a sliver away from full closure. And she is regaining her saliva...which is driving her nuts as she is used to her mouth being dry...with the saliva being produced in normal amounts she thinks she is drooling.
Gets better and better every day....and she said that today was her best Christmas ever.
OBIO
miamieagle
Charter Member
Thats just is great news my friend. This is the greatest gift God could have given you both. Merry Christmas.
I will continues to pray for you both!
I will continues to pray for you both!
Jagdflieger
Jr. Admin
Sounds like great Christmas cheer!