Guest guest Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Dearest Lottie, Happy Birthday! May you be blessed with many more birthdays to share with your husband and your lovely family. Thank you for your love and support throughout the year. Love, > > > Birthday wishes to you Lottie > > What number are you today - is it ? > > Have a great time with your family and hope you catch up with > all your friends for birthday cheer (a red or four too!!) > > Sounds like you have been in the wars with your last visit to > hospital - both you and Jimmy have had a torrid couple of months. > > Thinking of you today enjoying your day. > > Best wishes and more to come > > Sue (Australia) xxx > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Dearest Lottie, I hope your birthday was it was the best ever, and that you have many many more wonderful years and lovely parties with your family. Wishing you lots of love and laughter and of course health, Rhonda [ ] Re: Out of touch Bless your heart Lottie! Happy 80th! I know how it feels. I was feeling a little sick a couple of weeks ago, then woke up feeling REALLY sick--went to the hospital thinking I might have an infection from a blister on my foot (I am also diabetic), but it turned out to be a urinary tract infection, when led to pneumonia of all things, and I was in the hospital the first week of June, a total of 6 days! It was unbelievable. I think we have to remember that we must guard our health! Being in remission doesn't mean we are home free. We still must be very careful to watch infections, watch it being in crowds of people--I think Gleevec suppresses our immune function somehow and we are not as immunologically strong as we were previously. We are not invincible, unfortunately. I wish you the best of all birthdays, and I wish I could be there too! I love spicy food, and the descriptions of Cajun foods I've read have made my mouth water. =2 0It is Sunday and I have to work, but I am eating a can of s " grilled sausage and chicken gumbo " in your honor today! Lots of love and a big hug, VIcki & gt; & gt; Hi everyone, I've been out of touch for a few days, just wanted you to know why I haven't been responding to your calls and emails. I am back and will hopefully stay out of the hospital for the near and distant future. I went to my ENT for bronchitis, sore throat, infected sinuses and a cough. He ordered me to use a nebulizer, which caused some severe side effects. I began to tremble ( understand this is normal to have some), but the longer I waited for it to go away, the longer it lasted and then my heart started to race and beat irregularly. The ENT also said he heard a crackling in my lung, which could mean pneumonia. The pains in my chest and arms caused me to call the doctor after I had left his office, and after phone calls back and forth was told to go to the hospital. I was in the emergency room for hours and it was decided to keep me there because of overcrowding in the hospital. About 3:00 a.m., they took me and my bed and brought me to the heart ward because ER was overrun with patients. I thought I would be going home, but20it wasn't to be. I actually spent my birthday in the hospital. They wanted to rule out my having another heart attack, so I was held over for pictures of my heart before and after the perfusion test. I told them I almost gave up my cookies on that one. & gt; Everything was negative for a heart attack, but I will have to follow up with the heart clinic next week. I don't know if anyone of you ever had an experience like that from a nebulizer. Jimmy uses one 3 times a day, but there is no way I could even consider doing that again. My pulse jumped up 20 points and I was so shaky I could barely hold a pen in my hand to sign myself in. Everywhere I went, they could see the date and realized it was my birthday, so I was deluged with greetings. Even one of the doctors upon entering the door flashed a big smile and wished me a happy birthday. I wasn't exactly smiling, but was relived that they could find no evidence of a heart attack. The only thing left to do is an angiogram and the cardiologist will decide if evidence warrants it next week. All of the doctors advised me to continue digging and doing research on CML, because as they said, " You know more than we do and we rely on you, the patient, to educate us. " & gt; I didn't even tell my children I was in the hospital. They were frantic looking for me, but I didn't think I would be in for 3 days, I thought I would be released after a few hours. You don't want to spend a lot of time in ER. You don't know when and what you will get to eat. They don't keep food there and the cafeteria had long closed. It had been 11 hours since I had eaten when I began to complain about being hungry. I had a choice of a pizza or a sandwich. One of our sons is throwing an " 80 " party for me Sunday. Wish you could all come and enjoy a real Cajun party. & gt; Blessings, & gt; Lottie & gt; & gt; & gt; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Happy birthday dear Lottie! I hope you had a fantastic day!!!!!! Here's to many more! Love and hugs, Genie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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