[msb-alumni] Re: Steve Council
- From: Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:18:51 -0500
That's so unfortunate that you wait so long to see the doc. You can't mess
around with stuff like that.
The rehab facility doesn't necessarily mean hospice or impending death.
Hospitals don't keep people as long anymore, for one thing. For another,
critical bouts with pneumonia and the associated blood infection can really
knock somebody out, for quite awhile.
The son of a friend of mine who worked at the Board had pneumonia a few
years ago. Although he was robust and in his early thirties, he was mostly
off his feet for a couple months afterward.
Steve
Class of '72
----- Original Message -----
From: Vickie
To: MSB Alumni
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:26 PM
Subject: [msb-alumni] Steve Council
OK. I spoke with Frances earlier this evening and she gave me permission to
tell y’all about Steve, finally. Steve had pneumonia. however, since he
hates to go to the doctor, the infection spread to his bloodstream, before
he went to the hospital. He’s been in ICU ever since, and now they’ve
gotten the pneumonia out of his lungs, but they’ve put him on dialysis to
clean the blood. Apparently, it was more times a day than one, because she
said they’ve lowered the dialysis treatments to only one a day. He’s off
the ventilater for a couple of hours a day, but still can’t talk. So she
said it’s really hard for him to communicate. Of course they have him on
drugs, but once he indicated that he thought the hospital was trying to kill
him because of his feeling while on the drugs. They are trying to ween him
off those too. She did say, however, that if he left the hospital, he would
go to a rehabilitation facility, and not home. So we all know what that
means. She asked me some questions about melody. So if any of you
communicate with melody frequently, please write me off list. She said that
melody lives in tennessee. I didn’t know that. The last I heard, she moved
to Jackson, Michigan. So, she actually knew more than I did about melody.
So, that’s the scoop on Steve. So, we’ll continue to pray for him, and hope
that he can return home someday. Frances did say that his heart is holding
up really well so far. So that’s in his favor. Take care all.
Vickie rolison
May God bless you now, and evermore!
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