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Post by anni on Jan 6, 2010 17:31:40 GMT -8
You might be wondering, "Where's Brian?" and right you'd be. He drove to Palm Desert yesterday afternoon, his mom, Gladys, has been hospitalized with several severe complications, starting with her heart. As of last report, she's still in the ICU, and shows signs of getting better with the help of the good doctors and care of her family and the staff...we'll have to hear from her later, when she's doing a bit better! Brian should be starting home, soon. We'll both return to Palm Desert on Saturday...just because.
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Post by martine on Jan 6, 2010 19:27:56 GMT -8
Uh oh...so sorry to hear this...sending (((((((hugs)))))))) to you guys and to brian's mum and dad and family.
I hope Brian has some encouraging news when he gets back.
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Post by Brian on Jan 7, 2010 0:42:30 GMT -8
Uh oh...so sorry to hear this...sending (((((((hugs)))))))) to you guys and to brian's mum and dad and family.
I hope Brian has some encouraging news when he gets back. Thank you, Martine -- I do! My sister called from the emergency room on Tuesday at lunchtime. I left work, packed and drove down there with a head full of reasons to dread the worst. During my last visit on Wednesday, she had her eyes wide open and seemed responsive to questions and information from my sister, Dad and me -- despite being sedated for her breathing tube by the same stuff Michael Jackson used. Also worth the trip: I got to talk at length with her cardiologist and pulmonologist, who have kept her alive for ten years and really understand her, and I got to know her wonderful nursing staff in the ICU. Hopefully, when I go back with Anni on Saturday the breathing tube will be out and my Mom will be able to talk!
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Post by Brian on Jan 9, 2010 0:00:18 GMT -8
My mother speaks! After 72 hours semi-sedated but suffering from the tube down her throat, she breathed well enough on her own for the nurse to confidently remove it. And my Mom's first words were "Thank you."
The antibiotics and diuretics are working. And she seems to be fighting for life like her old self, not the one who stubbornly neglected her health the past few years. Now she's getting all the heart meds she's supposed to take. Anni and I are driving down there for the day, eager to hear everything she has to say.
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Post by Sharon W on Jan 9, 2010 0:09:41 GMT -8
My mother speaks! After 72 hours semi-sedated but suffering from the tube down her throat, she breathed well enough on her own for the nurse to confidently remove it. And my Mom's first words were "Thank you." The antibiotics and diuretics are working. And she seems to be fighting for life like her old self, not the one who stubbornly neglected her health the past few years. Now she's getting all the heart meds she's supposed to take. Anni and I are driving down there for the day, eager to hear everything she has to say. Glad to hear your Mom is doing better. Safe trip tomorrow.
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Post by anni on Jan 10, 2010 22:05:00 GMT -8
When we were getting close to Palm Desert, Brian put the call in from the cell phone. Linda answered, telling us Mom was back on the breathing tube, and she's heavily sedated AND her vitals are very good, with all the help.
For whatever reason, Gladys wasn't as strong as we had hoped. The doctors put her back on the breathing tube to let her get stronger, more slowly...But by Sunday, she's in and out of consciousness, perking up when Linda mentioned the Beef Tartar waiting at home for dinner this evening. Gladys' eyes got wide and bright, before she realized it would be some time 'til she'd enjoy her fair share of the prized treat.
I have to admit I was a bit disappointed on Saturday not to be able to cheer her on (because of the sedatives), tell her how much we love her and that she can have my share of the Tartar when we bust her outta the hospital...soon!
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Post by Brian on Mar 14, 2010 1:34:48 GMT -8
Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last!" (1923), shot at the Brockman Building in downtown Los Angeles.I've always loved Lloyd and that picture, but it also expresses how I feel every March (previously in April). No point in having a message board if you can't rant against the imposition of Daylight Saving Time. Being a natural night person makes things worse. I like to stay up until 1 a.m. Now I have to try to go to bed at midnight. The sun burns a hole in my brain as I climb up the driveway for the newspaper the first week. Traffic sucks with drivers squinting in both directions after a lack of sleep. The time of day seems to be the only shared agreement we all keep, certainly the only one that we change twice a year. I'm well aware that most people embrace Daylight Saving Time, especially my mother. She has a reams of folders I'm supposed to inherit documenting her role in our nation's first experiment with a ten-month DST in 1974, after she called a key chairman of a House committee with the idea. Reagan added three weeks in April permanently, then Bush and his Republican Congress gave us the current regimen starting in 2007. That might be the only thing Bush did that my Mom endorsed. She and I will have our annual conversation about it today, speaking on the phone from different time zones.
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Post by Jeanne on Mar 14, 2010 16:18:41 GMT -8
I'm with you, Brian. Time change is annoying twice a year. Let's just pick one and stay with it.No disrespect intended towards your mother.
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Post by anni on Mar 14, 2010 16:26:23 GMT -8
I'm with you, Brian. Time change is annoying twice a year. Let's just pick one and stay with it.No disrespect intended towards your mother. Me too, Jeanne! And it's especially wrong to happen on someone's birthday.
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Post by Bill on Mar 20, 2010 23:08:13 GMT -8
Brian & Anni,
Do you know anything about the area south of SuperCharBurger, we looked a house there today? I think we may have made an offer, but the wife and realator were yacking in Korean.
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