WOW is back … in the hospital.
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Phil Beckley said:
Thanks, Phil!
I hope to one day get a chance to visit Festool UK and meet you and the rest of the crew over there. It's always nice to be able to put a face with a name...and even better to share some experiences.
I don't think the airfare would be too bad, but the damage to my wallet from all of the NAINA stuff I'd want to bring back would be disastrous!
[scared] [scared] [scared]
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Wayne get well soon. Next time take a deep breath. That is what I tell my wife when she starts getting upset with someone. I use to let let things bother me but I noticed how it was affecting my health. So now I don't give rats a-- about anything. Life is my h better these days.
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Paul G said:
I have to say that the food is actually quite good. I have figured out what is 'best' and tend to enjoy it.
I don't know about their turkey. I was here over Thanksgiving in 2009 and back then Mrs. WOW cooked a meal at home and brought it up to me. It wasn't that unusual for us:
When our daughter was a 911 dispatcher we'd cook up a complete Thanksgiving meal with turkey, wild rice stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, candied yams, and several pies. Then we'd pack it up, take it in, and set it up for the dispatchers since they couldn't leave. The word would 'somehow' [wink] get out to the officers and most would magically show up to do paperwork, or drop something off, or...you get the idea!' Oh, and there were always a few 'accidents' that spilled right in front of the K-9 officers!
[big grin]
We usually fed anywhere from a dozen to two-dozen people. Honestly, it's one of the things we miss most about the holidays since our daughter moved on to other pursuits.
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Wayne, hope they identify the cause and work out a solution for you!
I went into the hospital last Wednesday, knee replacement surgery, and was chomping at the bit to get home late Friday afternoon. Amazing that you can be in and out of a hospital in 48-54 hours with a total knee replacement, and WALK unassisted into your home two days later.
It's true the food, at least where I was, is pretty good. It's all of the interruptions at all hours of the day and night to check this or that, draw blood at 4AM (really???), and being tied to IV's and wires and all just gets a bit much. And all of the other commotions you can't help but hear happening down the hall, to me, made me want to beg for mercy - early release please!!!
At least with your hiatus and my surgery occurring at the same time, I didn't get behind like 400 WOW postings and have to spend more time online catching up.
Get well!!!
I went into the hospital last Wednesday, knee replacement surgery, and was chomping at the bit to get home late Friday afternoon. Amazing that you can be in and out of a hospital in 48-54 hours with a total knee replacement, and WALK unassisted into your home two days later.
It's true the food, at least where I was, is pretty good. It's all of the interruptions at all hours of the day and night to check this or that, draw blood at 4AM (really???), and being tied to IV's and wires and all just gets a bit much. And all of the other commotions you can't help but hear happening down the hall, to me, made me want to beg for mercy - early release please!!!
At least with your hiatus and my surgery occurring at the same time, I didn't get behind like 400 WOW postings and have to spend more time online catching up.
Get well!!!
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Update as of 2pm:
Got back to my room from having a trans-esophageal echocardiogram, followed by cardio-version. Everything went 'swimmingly' as I think the Brits would say? My heart is back to a normal (for me) sinus rhythm. Assuming no further complications I should be able to go home tomorrow.
If true, that means no rubber turkey on Thursday. Instead, I get the REAL stuff, freshly prepared by Mrs WOW like this:
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Are you hungry now? I am!
They still need to adjust my meds before I go home, which can be a significant challenge in it's own right. Sounds like I'll be getting a couple of new ones added to my list. If they get it right the first time, I'll be FREE like a bird at this time tomorrow!
[thumbs up]
tjbnwi - Tom - I think I missed responding to your post. [embarassed] I actually did try to figure out a way to have them use something out of the kit for the procedure, just so I could say that it happened. About the most they'd agree to was using a bandage to cover the spot where they drew blood, so I passed. Maybe if I end up getting a new pacemaker/ICD I can figure something out. The doctor that would do that procedure is way cool and would probably agree to 'play'.
So, thanks SO MUCH to everyone who posted their kind wishes. I have read and re-read everyone's posts, emails, and PM's. If I didn't say a personal 'thank you' before, I'm doing it now. And a special thanks to those who reached out via email and PM.
You guys are the greatest!
Hopefully I can be out in the shop next week doing 'something' and post a project or two instead of all this talk about other stuff...
Got back to my room from having a trans-esophageal echocardiogram, followed by cardio-version. Everything went 'swimmingly' as I think the Brits would say? My heart is back to a normal (for me) sinus rhythm. Assuming no further complications I should be able to go home tomorrow.
If true, that means no rubber turkey on Thursday. Instead, I get the REAL stuff, freshly prepared by Mrs WOW like this:
[attachimg=1]
Are you hungry now? I am!
They still need to adjust my meds before I go home, which can be a significant challenge in it's own right. Sounds like I'll be getting a couple of new ones added to my list. If they get it right the first time, I'll be FREE like a bird at this time tomorrow!
[thumbs up]
tjbnwi - Tom - I think I missed responding to your post. [embarassed] I actually did try to figure out a way to have them use something out of the kit for the procedure, just so I could say that it happened. About the most they'd agree to was using a bandage to cover the spot where they drew blood, so I passed. Maybe if I end up getting a new pacemaker/ICD I can figure something out. The doctor that would do that procedure is way cool and would probably agree to 'play'.
So, thanks SO MUCH to everyone who posted their kind wishes. I have read and re-read everyone's posts, emails, and PM's. If I didn't say a personal 'thank you' before, I'm doing it now. And a special thanks to those who reached out via email and PM.
You guys are the greatest!
Hopefully I can be out in the shop next week doing 'something' and post a project or two instead of all this talk about other stuff...
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I have related here on The FOG about an accident I had in a 9th grade wood shop where I tried to stop a section of a wooden bowl with my face as it was trying to get to the far side of the room. I ended up in the hospital getting somewhere between 200 and 250 stitches inside and outside on my nose, lips and inside of my mouth. They gave me sodium pentethal (commonly name is "truth serum") When i was coming out from under in the evening, i was hearing things going on around me and knew i was being attended to. Sometime, during my recovery, I was taken to the ward and put to bed. A little later, as I was becoming more awake, I was approached by the cutest nurse whose job it was to jab me in the butt with penicillin, or whatever. I took one look at her and was not thinking of getting the needle. All i thought of was to get that girl into bed with me.
The next morning, i dimly remembered my wrestle with the nurse and thought it had been only a dream. The vision remained with me dimly thru out the entire day into evening. I guess I slept some now and then. There were three guys in there a little older than me and they were real cutups. I could not help laughing, but even smiling put a serious strain on the stitches around my lips. I bled a few times and needed attention. So I know i did not sleep all the time. Eventually, as the nurses changed shift for the "grave yard" shift (I have a cuz who is a nurse and that's what she always called the 11 to seven shift thru the wee morning hours), the girl from my dreams of the last 24 hours came to give me another needle in the same lacal as the nit before. I took one look at her and was somewhat horrified beyond embarrassment. I wanted to hide, but too late, she was there with the dreaded needle. I finally worked up my nerve and asked her if I had been fresh to her the nite before. She just laughed and told me I had been VERY fresh. I was in the hospital for maybe three nites and days so I saw her at least one more time. I was always embarrassed when I saw her, but she was just naturally a jolly person and made nothing of my foolishness.
With those three guys who kept me suffering thru so much laughter and that fun nurse, my stay was rely not so uncomfortable. I have ben in hospital a few more times in my life and, knowing how hard those nurses and doctors work, I always try to inject a little humor into the situation. A few years ago, I had to have some scrap iron and cadaver bone put into my neck. It had been maybe 60 plus years since I had been overbite in the hospital and, i found out later, that my cousin was concerned that i would be very impatient and/or nervous with my stay. Not so. Even tho I can get a little hard to get along with at times, I recognize the never ending problems the nurses and doctors are subject to. While awaiting my op, I was being checked on nearly constantly by several of the personel. They asked me a lot of questions and i was having a lot of un just joking around with most of the nurses. There was one especially who had my type of humor and we had a lot of trading of stories and just plain New England type humor in giving each other hard times. I really enjoyed the banter.
The nurses on that floor changed shifts around 3:00 pm and sometime after, that nurse who i had been joking with came into my room. She told me she just had to stop by before going home to tell me that I had really made her day. Somehow, that gesture just made my day as well. Like I say, i try to joke around under such circumstances. It makes it so much easier all around and it can make the stay a little more fun >>> until the bills start showing up [unsure]
Tinker
The next morning, i dimly remembered my wrestle with the nurse and thought it had been only a dream. The vision remained with me dimly thru out the entire day into evening. I guess I slept some now and then. There were three guys in there a little older than me and they were real cutups. I could not help laughing, but even smiling put a serious strain on the stitches around my lips. I bled a few times and needed attention. So I know i did not sleep all the time. Eventually, as the nurses changed shift for the "grave yard" shift (I have a cuz who is a nurse and that's what she always called the 11 to seven shift thru the wee morning hours), the girl from my dreams of the last 24 hours came to give me another needle in the same lacal as the nit before. I took one look at her and was somewhat horrified beyond embarrassment. I wanted to hide, but too late, she was there with the dreaded needle. I finally worked up my nerve and asked her if I had been fresh to her the nite before. She just laughed and told me I had been VERY fresh. I was in the hospital for maybe three nites and days so I saw her at least one more time. I was always embarrassed when I saw her, but she was just naturally a jolly person and made nothing of my foolishness.
With those three guys who kept me suffering thru so much laughter and that fun nurse, my stay was rely not so uncomfortable. I have ben in hospital a few more times in my life and, knowing how hard those nurses and doctors work, I always try to inject a little humor into the situation. A few years ago, I had to have some scrap iron and cadaver bone put into my neck. It had been maybe 60 plus years since I had been overbite in the hospital and, i found out later, that my cousin was concerned that i would be very impatient and/or nervous with my stay. Not so. Even tho I can get a little hard to get along with at times, I recognize the never ending problems the nurses and doctors are subject to. While awaiting my op, I was being checked on nearly constantly by several of the personel. They asked me a lot of questions and i was having a lot of un just joking around with most of the nurses. There was one especially who had my type of humor and we had a lot of trading of stories and just plain New England type humor in giving each other hard times. I really enjoyed the banter.
The nurses on that floor changed shifts around 3:00 pm and sometime after, that nurse who i had been joking with came into my room. She told me she just had to stop by before going home to tell me that I had really made her day. Somehow, that gesture just made my day as well. Like I say, i try to joke around under such circumstances. It makes it so much easier all around and it can make the stay a little more fun >>> until the bills start showing up [unsure]
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Baremeg55 said:
Boy does your story about a hospital stay sound familiar. You are correct that they do AMAZING things these days.
And you're also right about the pet peeves:
I especially wondered why they have to come in a midnight and wake me up so I can take a sleeping pill?
[scratch chin]
As far as all the tubes and wires - next time I think I'll bring my own boom arm!
[thumbs up]
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Untidy Shop said:
Reading AND comprehending - which wasn't so true a couple of days ago. They've stopped all of the IV pain drugs since I don't need them any more. And they're weaning me off some other so they can send me home. Not yet positive that it will happen today, but I'm hoping...
