Back From The Dead!!!!!!

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to thank you all for praying for me,

and thank you Tammy for posting to the board

about me, and for calling to check on me.

Thank you Janet for the beautiful card.

Thank you to Jan and Craig for your phone

calls while I was in the hospital.

I'm sorry Craig for not knowing who you were.

I have really been through the mill and back.

I was given one to many pain medications and coded

while I was in the hospital. They had me on a PCA

morphine pump and also a oral pain pill and then they

gave me another oral pain pill because I apparently

told them I was still having pain. So, figuring I was

dependent upon narcotics because of the long term pain

I had, they thought my system could handle it.

But it put my respirations so low that I stopped breathing

when they got me going again my O2 sats were only like 83

with 4 liters of oxygen on me.

So I spent 2 days in ICU.

Then when I came home I couldn’t walk so I went into

the nursing home where my daughter worked. Because

Dennis’ job is in full swing right now with summer

camp, so they did not want to leave me alone. I couldn’t

even get to the bathroom by my self. So I was in the nursing

home for 2 weeks. I was using a walker up until last week

now I am using a cane. But I am getting along a lot better.

The only pain I have had is at the surgery site. They made 3

vertical incisions, one over the spine and one on either side

of the midline. They are about 3 or 4 inches long. The muscles

that they cut through is where most of the pain is coming from.

And also I am having some major muscle spasms from my neck down

to my butt.

I am glad to be back among the living!!

I am going to try to catch up on reading the posts.

But as a lot of you know with my slow dial up that

might take a while.

One thing I wanted to ask Jan is, How and when and why

did you take over the leadership of the COF support group?

I’m going to go lay down.

Talk to you all later.

Oh P.S.

They drew some blood tests on me while I was in the  nursing home and my iron was 9, my daughter says they usually transfuse at 8! So they started me on some iron and drew my blood again yesterday. But of couse you know what the iron does for your bowels!! So he started me on Senna-S 4 pills a day.

P.S.S. My grand daughter Sydney is going to have

a baby in December, and she has broke up with

her boyfriend!! He wants to get married and she

flat out refuses to get married because she’s

pregnant