Posted on 07/27/2013 6:04:05 PM PDT by Mary Litwin
Swampsniper is in the hospital. We called 911 this morning at 1AM. He is OK for the most part. Just really scared us. He is in room 4023 in Flagler here locally. He asked me to let you know what was going on. He should be coming home soon, and I may have over-reacted but I'd rather err on that side of caution in this case.
Not a problem. If it’s serious enough for him to be in the hospital, that they decided to keep him, then it’s plenty serious enough to post a prayer thread for.
They don’t keep people who they don’t think need it.
Prayers up.
Prayers up that you’ll be home soon, Swampsniper! Prayers for your family as well - obviously, they are a blessing to you.
Prayers up.
Prayers up! Hope he’s ok.
Any news?
Prayers for him.
Prayers going up for your dad. Please keep us updated when you can.
Welcome to FR, thanks for the head’s up.
Minor question: Who broke SWAMPSNIPER?
It was the pets, wasn’t it?
They broke their hyooman...
/ bad joke
Prayers from the swamp of Ct.
Saying prayers for our Swamp-master. May this setback be just a blip in the road for a good man. Tell him that I will not accept a day without his beautiful pictures to pick me up.
How’s he doing?
I have tried to check the thread for an update on my Florida FRiend Swampsniper,maybe I missed it.
I hope that there is good news about his recovery. I will keep checking...
Please tell him I am wishing him well. 3D-Joy
On the instruction sheet I got checking out some of my old prescriptions are listed as do not continue use of this, discard remaining supply.
What ever it was I couldn't walk and ended up getting 2 units of blood thru my carotid early on Saturday.
Damn computer broke 2, SIL is out looking for parts or cheap temp unit,so I won't take his computer over by force.
Please keep us all posted...you will be able to go back and see how many FReeper friends you have. Many will have been away or busy and just got the news today!
Good luck with the computer.
5.56mm
Take care. You are missed.
Friday AM I woke up with my feet hurting really bad. Leg pains are a known side effect of the drugs I take for my lungs so I figured I would just pee in my emergency jug and sleep until the pain moved somewhere else. It never did, just got a lot worse and I started running a fever. Tried to get up and fell back on the bed. I got SIL Steve to pick up all 225 pounds of me and get me on the john before I did an Al Roker. I wasn't able to stand up and get back to bed. Daughter Mary figured I was about to leave this world on a porcelain throne and she called 911. The EMT crew had to haul me off the pot and out the front door cross country to the damned ambulance, in the damned dark. She rode in the ambulance with me.
Got to the hospital I think about midnite and they started sticking needles and wires all over the place. Then I heard them order 3 units of blood, I was all dried up.
I've been taking stuff for fluid retention, I think they gave me too much, way too much, I showed 15% kidney function at the hospital. Since I got hydrated they seem to be coming back on line, X rays and tests didn't show any serious obvious things, just well used 71 year old parts.
A new doctor came in and told me I couldn't walk because I had the wildest case of Gout he had ever seen, my feet were packed with Uric acid crystals. It hurts so bad you don't want the air to touch your feet, you just simply can't walk.
No more pee pills for me, I'll just go ahead and swell up until I bust.
I'm weak as a kitten didn't really get any sleep or food in the hospital. They torment you awake and the food is inedible and your talking to someone who can live in the woods on what I can catch with my hands. I can open a tray of hospital food and the scent just turns my stomach, I don't know how they manage to ruin it like that.
Missy has been raising Hell because Mary moved the kitty treats I keep by the computer and I couldn't find them. She got in my lap, stuck her head in my armpit and started moaning at me. I told her to go find Mary and she went marching out with her tail twitching, back in five minutes, grandson said Mary was taking a nap. She just got up and found the kitty snacks so it's a little bit calmer in here.
I'm gonna sleep some, then I've got to figure out how to make windows 8 work or replace it with win 7. In it's present oem form it's a sick joke.
I imagine my sense of humor will come back someday but I'm not betting on it.
Welcome back S, glad you’re feeling “better, I hope”.
Sometimes side effects of meds are most of people’s problems, IMHO.
Sometimes finding the right specialist doctor can work wonders. With my father, I find it’s hit or miss with docs. Some fantastic, others, gotta know when to replace them.
It never ceases to amaze me how they don’t seem very precise in their analysis, don’t seem to think about what patients eat, etc. Seems important to health to me, but I’m not a doc.
I can’t help you with Windoze.
Any of your kids or locals down there know about Linux ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_%28operating_system%29
It’s great to have you back, Swampsniper.
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