Sounds like a lot of hard work ahead.
God bless you all.....
May God heal him.
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Prayer to the God Who heals us.
It’s good to see the positive tone in your post. Stay positive! I just said a prayer for you and Jeff.
Prayers of Comfort, Strength and Healing for Jeff and the family.
It’s nice to get such encouraging news! Tell Jeff he is still at the top of our prayer list, and we are looking forward to more good news!
I am glad to hear he is doing well apart from the usual postop ups and downs. He has hard work ahead of him to be sure, but he has the spirit and the stamina and the prayers of thousands of freepers. :-)
Take care of yourself as well.
Prayers to your family.
Thanks for the update. I’m remembering Jeff in my prayers every day.
For Jeff, it has been very humbling and he struggles sometimes with the TOTAL lack of privacy in ALL things
Um, maybe a little less detail on his bowel activities posted on FR would help in that department. Those of us who aren't close personal friends of his really don't need to know *everything* :-)
renting a van and putting him on an air mattress might be an option
Air mattresses don't provide nearly as much cushioning against shock/bumps as a regular innerspring mattress. You could pick up a used twin mattress on Craiglist for very little.
Continued prayers.
Prayers up! And a Jeff Head BTT.
Prayers for you!!!
Gail,
We just had a friend get the insurance company to provide an RV to get her home from Colorado to Oklahoma for hospice. It is certainly worth a look.
Thank you so much for the update, Gail. I’m constantly amazed at Jeff’s courage. I think of you and Jeff every day, and remember you both in my prayers. God bless you both!
Thank you for the update. Know that many of us are praying earnestly for Jeff and you. - OB1
Prayers up!
We are still Praying here.
Prayers continue....
Consideration/experience: After 2 months in a Seattle hospital due to significant heart surgery (3 entries into my chest), suffering a stroke during the first surgery and contracting MRSA that almost took me out, I set out to go home.
I rode passenger, on the very comfortable leather seat, in our new Tundra.... it doesn’t ride like a truck. My bride drove and did her absolute best to help with my comfort. I was on O2, morphine, oxys, was plumbed for tube feeding at my abdomen, a PIC for antibiotics. and a wound vac tube in the open wound of my chest... that’s the short list of my issues at that point.
The drive took about 4 hours. Every mile was very painful. Every bump, every change in the road surface, every lane change, every stop and start, every acceleration and deceleration was extremely painful and miserable. We had to stop no less than 10 times as I was on diuretics and needed to use a urinal. I’m thankful that I never had to have a bowel movement... I couldn’t walk more that 10’ and it two people to help me get in and out of the truck... very slowly.
If I had to do it all over again, I think I might have preferred a van, but while prone, I wouldn’t have been able to see the road conditions and traffic, that allowed me to anticipate some of the changes which allowed me ‘some’ occasional relief. I can’t help but think that I would have weathered the trip much better had I been in a cushy motor-home.
It doesn’t take long for the morphine to wear off and the oxy’s were never enough..... sleeping through it was impossible.
Good luck...
Dan