Re: Lola
BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:Lola, your's is one of at least seven instances among my friends where the difference between surviving or dying depended on a loved-one being near who thought rationally and quickly, doing all the right things. It's almost as if your flight home from Texas was a life-saving flight. Congratulations on handling a dangerous situation so well. You most certainly saved Blatham's life. Now he owes you big time!
I hope our post printouts are a comfort to Blatham because the ICU can be a dreadfully cold life-saving mechanical place to be. Extra love and human contact with the patient really helps to keep up their spirits.
Hugs to both of you between tears of joy that he's getting better.
BBB
It's true BBB, I feel blessed by the Universe to have been here when he needed me. I can hardly stand to think about what it would have been like otherwise. Of course, it could be said that my arrival precipitated the attack.......but at least it happened while I was here because it was going to come soon enough anyway. Actually we're lucky to find that he had the other colesterol blockages before they cut off the blood supply.
Bad boy bernie for smoking all these years! Oops, that just slipped out.
As far as the atmosphere in the ICU is concerned. I've been very favorably impressed with the lovely bedside manner and excellent training that has made the staff there so helpful and caring. He's in Cornell University Medical Center and it is apparently a very good hospital. The para-medics made an excellent decision when they took us there. It's only 10 blocks away from my apartment. I still don't believe in God, but lady luck was smiling on us yesterday, that's for sure. When I finally was able to call his brothers and their wives yesterday, I had to ask which hospital it was. Funny........I was focused on only one thing and that was to get him to the ER somewhere as fast as possible.
Again, thanks for your responses. I'm sure Bernie will enjoy them when I get them to him later this morning.
A few broken ribs? 
Damn! That's as serious as a heart attack. Sure glad to hear Bernie's getting on well. And you, Glamor Gams - find a way to take it a little easy and get yourself some rest - you're sure as hell gonna need all your resources and vigor when the hospital tires of his shennanigans and boots him into your care.