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    Getting to Know You ----Thursday, Feb 10

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    Went and had lunch with my sweety today and had delicious chicken and dumplings, might have to revise my fav comfort food.

    Hey Judy, Ann, Heidi, everybody, I got my computer where I have access to it and I'm walking without a cane now so I should be on more. Great to be amongst the living again!! Whoo Hoooo :lol:

    MERRY CHRISTMAS AIR

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    Almost 5 degrees here. I'm back amongst the living once more. Seems that you can't come off Dreadnisone in a week, nearly killed me again. I'm back on it and hopefully going to be able to be weaned over the next few months. This has been a very rough time but prayers and cares have kept me going. Happy Christmas and a better new year to all who may be suffering.

    I had a bad fall.

    in MEMBER UPDATES

    Posted

    Oct. 17th my wife took me to the E.R. My O2 sat was down to 47%, I was on 6 liters oxy., I had a fever of 104. The docs sedated me, I guess I was out of control, they did a bronchoscopy and found pneumonia and blood in my good lung. They tried to identify the reason and treatment of the blood but couldn't locally so they sent it to Mayo. I had some form of infection and they put me on an IV antibiotic for 2 weeks. everytime they tried to bring me out of the sedation I was nuts so they would sedate me again. After a couple weeks the doc took my wife aside and told her there wasn't anything more they could do and they were going to take me off the ventilator.Mary called a friend of ours who is a doctor and an addiction specialist and he came and ran some tests and determined I had become addicted to the medications they were using to sedate me and keep me calm he talk to them and they did a trach on me. I stayed alive. then they tried to get me off of the medications and found I had ICU psycosis. So they continued to keep me sedated. Meanwhile they kept trying to get me off the drugs and get me to level off. I guess at some point I pulled out the feeding tube and the trach tube so the nurses came in and called the doc to see if they wanted to retrach me and he said to go ahead but the nurse noticed I was starting to respond nomally so they waited for the doc to get there and they decided to try to unsedate me again. I finally responded more normally and they started getting me back amongst the living. I was in ICU for 31 days of which I remember nothing. I came to the sunday before thanksgiving and was totally clueless. Mary started filling me in on what had been going on. A few days later I was put in a rehab hospital beacuse I couldn't walk, or move my arms and could barely talk. I got out yesterday, my lungs are now both quite damaged and just standing up and sitting back down my O2 sats drop to 75 or 80 % even when I'm on oxygen. I am waliking with a walker I'm learning to write again, I know how it's just that my hands don't work very well so it's barely legible. Other than the lung damage I should make a full recovery. I guess you could say I had a bad fall, Oct. Nov,. Dec. Hopefully I'll spring back soon.

    Tuesday's Air

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    I have to agree about writing things down, when I start speaking about an emotional issue I can get so tongue tied I sound like an idiot. You are an adult Lily and should have the right to be treated as adults. I'm going in for another CT scan and chest exray to day, wish me luck.

    Monday's air

    in JUST FOR FUN

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    I'm jealous of your 50 degree weatgher Heidi, might get to 30 here today. Been record lows for the last 3 or 4 days now. My fever just keeps coming back, been 100 everyday for a over a week. just about to finish another round of antibiotics and just finished with Tamiflu, I think I'm getting better.

    Tuesday's Air

    in JUST FOR FUN

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    Morning, a bit nicer night last night. Sunday we got snow and 90 mph winds. Today is the first day of fall, pretty wild weather this year. I have still been sooooo sick and on a bunch of O2 just to be able to get up the stairs to the kitchen. I'm ready to feel better and I know it can't be that far away. That chemo sure kicked my butt.

    Getting to Know You - Wednesday, September 16

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    My old buddy Don, known him since I was about 12. Haven't seen him in about 12 yrs, went to visit him last year and he was out of town unexpectedly the same weekend. Have another friend that I've known since I was 5 and hadn't talked to him in almost 30 yrs and called and got hold of him last year. Since being ill I really want to keep more in touch with my past, have just reconnected with about ten of my cousins all over the country on facebook, sure is cool.

    Yes & No

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    Been arrested? --- yes

    Kissed someone you didn't like? --- yes

    Slept in until Noon? --- yes

    Fallen asleep at work/school? --- yes

    Held a snake? --- yes

    Ran a red light? --- yes

    Been suspended from school? -- yes

    Experienced love at first sight? --- yes

    Totaled your car in an accident? -- no

    Been in a vehicle at more than 100 mph? --yes

    Driven a vehicle at more than 100 mph? --- yes

    Been fired from a job? --yes

    Fired somebody? --- yes

    Sang karaoke? --- yes

    Pointed a gun at someone? --- no

    Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? --- yes

    Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? --- yes

    Caught a snowflake on your tongue? ---yes

    Kissed in the rain? -- yes

    Had a close brush with death (your own)? --- yes

    Ever feared for your life? --- yes

    Seen someone die? --- no

    Played spin-the-bottle? --- no

    Sang in the shower? ---yes

    Smoked a cigar? --- yes

    Sat on a rooftop? ---yes

    Smuggled something into another country? ---no

    Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? -- yes

    Broken a bone? ---yes

    Skipped school? --- yes

    Eaten a bug? ---no

    Sleepwalked? --- no

    Walked a moonlit beach? --- yes

    Ridden a motorcycle? --- yes

    Dumped someone? --- yes

    Forgotten your anniversary? --- no

    Lied to avoid a ticket? --- yes

    Ridden in a helicopter? --yes

    Shaved your head? --- yes

    Played a prank on someone? --- yes

    Hit a home run? --- no

    Felt like killing someone? --- yes

    Cross-dressed? --- yes

    Been falling-down drunk? --- yes

    Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? --- yes

    Eaten snake? ---NO!

    Marched/Protested? --- no

    Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? --- no

    Puked on amusement ride? --- yes

    Seriously & intentionally boycotted something? --- yes

    Been in a band? --- yes

    Knitted? ---no

    Been on TV? --- yes

    Fired a gun? --- yes

    Skinny-dipped? --- yes

    Given someone stitches? --- no

    Eaten a whole habenero pepper (or other hot peppers)? -- yes

    Ridden a surfboard? --- no

    Drank straight from a liquor bottle? ---yes

    Had surgery? --- yes

    Streaked? --- no

    Taken by ambulance to hospital? --- yes

    Passed out when not drinking? --- no

    Peed on a bush? ---yes

    Donated Blood? --- no

    Grabbed electric fence? --- yes

    Eaten alligator meat? --- no

    Eaten cheesecake? --- yes

    Eaten your kids' Halloween candy? --- no

    Killed an animal when not hunting? --- yes

    Peed your pants in public? --- yes

    Snuck into a movie without paying? --- yes

    Written graffiti? ---yes

    Love someone you shouldn't? --- yes

    Think about the future? --- yes

    Been in handcuffs? -- yes

    Believe in love? --- yes

    Sleep on a certain side of the bed? ---yes

    Have a tattoo? -- yes

    Card Trick

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    Saturday morning at 2 am I was awake, as usual, so I woke up Mary and held up a deck of cards and said, "here take a card", she took a card and I told her to look at it. After she looked at it I asked okay do you know what card it is? She said yes so I had her put it back in the deck and said, "thank you" and put the cards away and went to bed. She laughed, whew thank God.

    H1N1 vaccine

    in GENERAL

    Posted

    I guess I'm just like everyone else, just wondering. I normally get the flu and pneumonia shots because I have such a tendency towards that sort of illness. Dunno what I'll do this year yet but I see my ONC this week so gotta remember to ask.

    Final chemo

    in GENERAL

    Posted

    Today I had my final carbo / alimta cocktail. Pneumonia is finally about gone and no fever. Thought I was having final chemo 2 weeks ago but it was postponed and I thought maybe they were going to cancel it altogether. CT from 2 weeks ago showed the pneumonia in my lower lobe of right lung, but, NO CANCER. I am just truly blessed. Also have gotten through my ins. carrier change so far with only one notice of "pre-existing condition", DUH, that's why we've been treating my cancer. But I think out secretary has them straightened out and I'd hate to cross her myself. Now that I feel a little better I realize how sick I've been for the last month, no wonder I been sleeping 15 to 20 hrs a day about half the time.

    Sunday's Air

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    Howdy all, gotta tell you about my crazy new puppy. I watched him stalk his prey this morning for a few minutes. He stood on top of the stairs and hunkered down and was staring at the lawn, I kept trying to see what he was after. He went down the stairs about halfway and stopped and stared again and I still couldn't see what he was going to attack. Finally he went to the bottom of the stairs and crouched down in the grass ready to pounce and then he struck, an empty water bottle. I was cracking up. He actually stalked an empty bottle and it didn't get away. Hell he could be a senator with that kind of instinct and intelligence. LOL

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