[bookshare-discuss] Re: I Am Scanning A Wish List Book

  • From: "Nicki Keck" <favorite.blend@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:40:48 -0400

Monica, I don't blame you.  Merv got much better once he got home from the
hospital in January and I could take care of him than while he was there.
Especially at the rehab center, his pancreatitis acted up again because the
food they fed him was just horrible, and he got sick on it.  he didn't get
sick so much once we got him home, and they didn't even want to send him
until he stopped getting sick.  He told them he wouldn't stop getting sick
until he got home.  he also got a secondary infection while in the hospital,
and that caused more problems and was why he had to go to the rehab center
in the first place, because Medicare wouldn't pay for inhome nursing to
administer IV antibiotics.
 
Have a blessed day,
 
Nicki
 
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in
despair; 
persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
 

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From: Monica Willyard [mailto:rhyami@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 1:03 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: I Am Scanning A Wish List Book


Hi, Cindy. I've been told that I am sick enough to be hospitalized. However,
my doctor  is supporting me so I can stay at home since I have medical
equipment here. I've been fighting hospitalization for several reasons, and
am not going unless I get to a point where their intervention will actually
help me. A doctor with a different attitude would probably see me as being
stubborn, but I see it as being practical, and my doctor is respecting that.
My pneumonia is viral, and there isn't much they can do about that beyond
decongestants and breathing treatments that I can administer myself. The
antibiotics I'm taking are to prevent a secondary infection from forming.
I'm also dealing with the fact that my mom is out of town, and I'd have to
find somewhere for my daughter to stay if I were admitted to the hospital.
Finally, I don't know if you've ever thought about this, but it isn't very
restful in a hospital. It seems like it's a constant sort of turmoil  with
someone poking your arms for blood samples or blood pressure readings every
couple of hours, the patient next door blaring their TV with a game show,
and a social worker waking you up to give you written information about your
condition. That's how it was when I had pneumonia in April, and I want to
avoid a repeat. I already feel weak and miserable, and I don't want people
waking me up unless it's really important. Staying at home lets me sleep in
my own bed, make cups of hot tea when I want them, and I can still be
actively involved in my daughter's life when she needs me. It does mean that
I have to be consistent with my medication, and I have to keep careful
records of my blood sugar and blood pressure readings. I think it's worth
that to stay at home. Sorry if this got kind of long-winded. :)

Monica Willyard

Grandma Cindy wrote: 

Yes, I will.



Does this mean you don't have to go to the hospital,

or is that still uncertain. Do what you have to do to

get well. 



Cindy

  


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