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27705. Ms. No - 11/19/2013 7:42:39 PM What're the dates for 2014? 27706. arkymalarky - 11/19/2013 8:25:01 PM Not sure yet. Y'all let me know what days are good. 27707. arkymalarky - 11/19/2013 8:25:02 PM Not sure yet. Y'all let me know what days are good. 27708. judithathome - 11/19/2013 10:40:40 PM Anything is good for us...so long as we're not in the hospital. 27709. arkymalarky - 11/20/2013 12:19:51 AM If you or Keoni are we'll move it there! ;> 27710. judithathome - 11/20/2013 1:21:11 AM Good thing it's not next week, then! 27711. arkymalarky - 11/20/2013 1:38:03 AM Are y'all going to the hospital? What's up? 27712. judithathome - 11/20/2013 5:13:41 AM Keoni has a hernia and I find out this week if I need my gall bladder out.
If there were ANY more "fun" way to get old, I'd choose it in a heartbeat. This way sucks. 27713. arkymalarky - 11/20/2013 2:55:12 PM oh my. I hate to hear that. Let us know what they decide. 27714. Ms. No - 11/21/2013 8:37:07 PM Bleh! Hope they find something other than surgery to help you out. 27715. judithathome - 11/21/2013 10:41:55 PM I get to keep my gall bladder but Keoni has to have surgery...all he is upset about is that he will not be able to play golf for a month.
But his reward is that he's going to Hawaii the end of January. His mom's 93rd birthday...hope he's got her genes! ;-) 27716. arkymalarky - 11/23/2013 8:58:25 PM Oh my. What's the weather doing your way? 27717. judithathome - 11/23/2013 9:00:47 PM We are freezing our asses off! Supposed to get UP to a high of 38° today. 27718. arkymalarky - 11/23/2013 9:17:59 PM Is there freezing rain/sleet? They're predicting it for here tomorrow night. We don't need it. Stan's mother just got home from having open heart surgery and is not doing well. I hate to think roads might become impassable. 27719. arkymalarky - 11/23/2013 9:19:46 PM She got home yesterday. They told her if she doesn't drink water and urinste every two hours she would likely die of sepsis. Assholes. 27720. judithathome - 11/23/2013 9:25:22 PM Wow...well, maybe they wanted to scare her into drinking a lot. But if she gets sepsis, wouldn't that be THEIR fault for infecting her?
No sleety rain here...yet. 27721. arkymalarky - 11/23/2013 9:37:25 PM Well they also had to go back through a vein and retrieve part of a catheter that had been left in during surgery. They dropped her in the bathroom a couple of days ago and she has brain function issues due to too much loss of oxygen to her brain during surgery. She's supposed to go back to an appt with the surgeon Tuesday. A HUGE difficulty for her. But no way would they just keep her from Friday to Tuesday. She had to get out. And now there's this weather. I think the family should go to the appt without her and tell them a thing or two. 27722. judithathome - 11/23/2013 11:47:52 PM Well, the family can do that WITH her going...though it sounds like the patient is that last thing on their minds.
Keoni suggests taking a lawyer with them to the appointment.
Please give her our best regards...and keep us posted on her progress in spite of her medical "help". 27723. arkymalarky - 11/24/2013 12:25:34 AM Thanks! I will! Her SIL is a well known lawyer in AR and he's been there for everything, but he says at age 84 they rarely get anywhere legally with their medical care.
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Medical professionals lure elderly patients into surgery with the idea their quality and length of life will be improved. They make buttloads of money doing that. She would have died without the surgery but now she may have a working heart and no life quality. I read an article about this a while back. I'm not saying she shouldn't have the surgery, but elderly people aren't cash cows to be cut on and tossed aside. 27724. arkymalarky - 11/24/2013 12:26:51 AM The sil is also the state rep for the district the hospital is in.
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