You can keep your socks on

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Yeah! Right!

not to hijack the thread, but he ended up in the hospital a couple days ago because his hemoglobin was 6....it's supposed to be at least 11. Blood was 7 times as weak as it should have been. Very disoriented and weak. 3 units of blood and a couple units of plasma later he finally came home today.

and now....back to the dyster......

yeah, lovenox, that's what I'm getting until tomorrow then something different. I be hanging in, hanging on, going home tomorrow starting home therapy on monday.

did ask, answer, (yes probably)

Of course I have thought of it: like, doh and duh in combo.

Plan on catching you tomorrow. Will you still be as crabby? If so, I'll have to start making up names, like Crab Prince, probably a purveyor of anchovies to the world.

All right, all right. Get a good nights sleep. We love you.

waddya mean "crabby". For Dys that was positively cordial and sweet !

change in plans, to go home on monday because have infection in incision drainage.

If I liked you, that would be mixed news. Bad re infection, good re caught and being managed.

If I liked you that is.

g'day bloke, Owerya goin"

Heh, Dys is extremely articulate re gripes, over several hours. There are good things about this, even many. I'll leave it at that.

Oy, Bob. But I want them monitoring, so from my point of view this is good, not re infection, but that they're attuned.

better safe than sorry, you'll be home on the range soon enough

As Dys said, he will be coming home on Monday. What he failed to mention is that the doctor said that he would send Dys home on Sunday, escept for the fact that he was going to be away on Sunday, which means that Dys has to stay an extra day. Damn.

The OTand PT have said that they don't expect him to be needing much therapy since he had taught himself how to sit and move during the month he had the shattered hip. He is very weak, but he is doing very well and they thought that he was ready to come home on Thursay. Then the pheunomonia. Come home on Saturday. Now this. Bloody hell, I can't believe the doctor can't give another doctor the authority to allow Dys to come home on Sunday. So goes the medical universe.

Sally is sleeping as close to me as she can get. She is the only one of the animals who is really suffering. Dys is her dog spelled backwards. Those sad doggy eyes are almost impossible to look at.

Another couple of days is, afterall, easy to live with as long as he has had such good reports from the therapists and is doing better than expected, infections notwithstanding. I know for sure that there is a lot of his extraordinary grandpa in him. Like his grandpa, his toughness is as much mental as physical. It amazes me.

So good to read your posts. All of you have made it easier to cope with all this. Dys, (and I), have a wonderful family here.

Another update tomorrow.

Love to all.

Ok, Diane, we got the update on Dys' improvement but I want to know how you are coping cause I love ya.

BBB

Well, you know I'll be the bitch.

The guy has, I gather, a urinary tract infection (uti), an infection re an insertion tube, pneumonia, old and new blood clots, extremely recent hip replacement, a history of walking or even hopping around with a broken hip re whatever that means re stuff to brain, emphysema, smoking up the wazoo, is at an extreme end of low weight, and fuckall, while being put on coumadin again, if I read right.

So, I won't gripe about him being watched for one more day or two.
I would, though, wish he is actually watched. I am not a fan of hospitals coning down for a sunday.

I worry about this bit. mrs hamburger recently had hip replacement surgery. She's a bit of a pusher in terms of trying to recover sooner rather than later, not quite listening to some of the medical cautions. It turns out being a tough girl/guy is not necessarily a good thing re physical recovery.

She lost quite a bit of weight post-surgery, which is not at all unusual - but something the cowboy can't afford.

Sit on him. Feed him steak. Take care of yourself - pamper yourself - but watch the ice cream - we don't want to hear about you getting into trouble.

After operations like this, just to give you another perspective, you stay between 10 and 14 days in the hospital ... and then go for three weeks in a rehabilitation clinic (which is sometimes alternatively done ambulant, sort of say-in patient).

(((((((((Dys)))))))))

I think the appropriate response sounds something like "Fair to cactus, mate!"

Your post about being too stoic or having a high pain threshhold is on my mind a lot. A high pain threshhold is terribly dangerous. By hopping around, one of the shattered bones could have floated off to sever a nerve or to cut open an artery. He is a very lucky man to be alive.

I hate the fact that he won't be coming home, knowing he is getting stir crazy and I am so lonely in this house that is filled with animals. The animals and I comfort each other. At home, most of the time, Sally or Dante are covering Dys, vying for his lap, I feel like crawling over to him, knocking Sally and Dante off to have Dys scratch me behind the ears.

The fact that his infections are still around, is the only thing about this that is reassuring. Even though they are small, if they flared up at home, he would be in real trouble. I'm hoping that by monday, those infections will be completely irradicated and he is ready to be smothered with love from the animals and me, that is, if the animals give me a little room.

That animal magnetism is strong stuff.