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Bad news....for me, anyway...
Guys...VIR is looking like it won't be happenin' for me. My Dad had to go to the ER last Tuesday afternoon. He was loosing a lot of blood from his rectum...he's on blood thinners, so this wasn't entirely unexpected. Still, this was totally out of the blue so to speak.
I got a call Wednesday AM around 0215, and they said they had give him 12 units of whole blood, about 8 plasmas, and some platlettes, and they were no longer able to keep up with the flow. They wanted permission to operate. I gave the OK - what was my choice?
Anyway, he came through the surgery okay, but he lost about 2-3 feet of his bowel in the process. He's still in Critical Care, and it's pretty much touch and go just now. He's doing better, but he's so wacked out on demerol and adavan that he barely knows I'm there.
When he comes out of ICU, he's probably looking at a 3-4 week hospital stay, and after that we don't know what might happen. So, it looks like I won't be at VIR when Club Cranky fires it up this month. I plan on sending Mike Stenhouse a note this evening and bringing him up-to-date. I had to cancel last May's event as well, as my Mom had just been diagnosed with lung cancer. We lost her in July, so I've been trying to look out for my Dad since then. We moved him to a retirement home in January of this year, and he had been doing alright - weellll, OK, anyway - since then. He was diagnosed with bone cancer (Multiple Myeloma) in August of 2000. We still haven't heard from the pathologist on the section of bowel that was removed.
Anyway, long story short, anyone need a VIR slot...? Looks like I'm going to be racing to the hospital....
At least I hope that's the only place I need to be racing to this month.
Getting old sucks...! If you're a smoker...please, quit now! I've seen first hand what it does to a body and it ain't pretty.
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Flyin_Freddie
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