I left the hospital yesterday, which ended up being both bus and stressful. Is started of the day on the wrong foot — literally. My left foot would no longer take any weight for walking, so what would have been a somewhat tough task of packing and getting ready to leave became excruciating. Whatever was …
Category Archives: Health
Help details thus far….
9/09 – 8:00 – 9:00 Location Prep (Rob) 9/10 – ?:?? – ??:?? Transport (Jim) 9/11 – 11:00- 3:00 visit (Jef) 9/12 – 10:00- 4:00 visit (Scott) 9/13 – available visits 9/14 – available visits 9/15 – 11:00-11:30 visit (might have family in town?) 9/15 – 3:00 – 3:30 visit (might have family in town?) …
Plea for help…
Actually one huge request. Send help. In it’s many shapes and sizes. I’m up and moving (barely), but even simple tasks are impossible/off limits (ex. carry a tray of food for 3 feet). If you live in or around the DC metro area and can assist in (big) babysitting, driving service, errands, or anything at …
A quick update.
Sometime around when the powers that be (and the doctors the rock) managed to keep me on this side of the shadowy veil, the server’s Internet connection when belly up. Seems like a more than fair trade. Actually, as karmic tabs go, I’m assuming I still owe on this one, and I can readily accept …
Six, count them, Six bypasses
3:25 PM – Sandro is now out of surgery. The doctors say that it was a very sucessful surgery. There was no damage to his heart and he now has all new plumbing! He is in the ICU unit, where visitors are limited. With any luck he will be off of the ventilator by tomorrow …
Still no word…
12:11 PM – still waiting for him to get out of surgery. I guess no news is good news.
Small Update
10:48 AM – After pestering the staff here for information, we now know that the surgery started at 8 am. Sandro is doing well. The surgeon is taking his time harvesting lots of grafts. Assuming the standard 3-5 hour surgery, we should have more news by 1 pm.
still no news
9:45 AM – For all of you waiting for news, Sandro was brought into the surgery room at 6:15 this morning. He is still in surgery and I am here patiently waiting for news. Once I hear anything I will let you all know. Thanks for your prayers.
Day 9: Last post before surgery
It’s almost midnight on the eve of my surgery. After we pack the computer (in a few minutes) I won’t have access again for an unknown amount of time (probably 3-5 days). Missi is going to post critical updates as often as practical for her. Thanks for all your hopes and prayers. -Sandro
Day 9: 18 hours to surgery
My nerves got the best of me last night and I didn’t sleep well. I got prescribed Lorazepam (Ativan) to settle my nerves. The best advice is to use the meds offered to make things somewhat easier. I go into surgery in about 18 hours. In the mean time I have forms to fill out, …