Re: Re: Bruce/Joyce's surgeries

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Bruce/Joyce.... I have read articles about you and Joyce went through. Scares the hell out me to think of any surgery!

I would think those memories are forever implanted in your mind. How can you possibly forget?

I wish I could hug the boo boos away for you both!

Mama-Sher, age 69.IPF 3/06, NSIP 4/08 OR. Don't fret about tomorrow, God is already there!

Re: Bruce

Peggy re: JoyceNo, you can't imagine the pain and fear. Trust me. I'm guessing hers wasworse than mine but I know mine was beyond anything I'd ever imagined. Ididn't know one could hurt so much, be so scared and be so helpless toget any help. I was wanting them to just let me die right then so Iwouldn't feel it another minute. I actually could see a clock and timehas never passed so slowly. I remember especially from 9 to 9:10 andthen to about 9:20 just I'd look and think it had to have been hours andit seemed like the hands weren't moving. I don't know if my cries forhelp were actually getting out of my mouth or not. I know I felt like Iwas screaming for help and saying things but no one was paying attentionit seemed so I just believed that I thought I was getting it out but Iwas too weak to actually do so. I'll never know. And, thats the thingabout mine and Joyce's that having someone with you doesn't help whenyou're in surgery. By the time you tell them its happened. saidthat even when she was able to see me shortly after 11, it was the firsttime she'd ever seen me in so much pain and so scared and I've had othersurgeries. I had a colon resection and never used pain killers. Ofcourse, she had no idea why.Hearing Joyce's story brought it all back. No one should ever besubjected to such.> > > Hi Group,> > > I'm Home! They didn't kill me in the Big House, although they> > injured me severely.> > > They have starved me, I am black and blue from shoulder to> > fingertips. Yes, they took blood from my fingers. I was in surgeryon> > three different days. So, they would not let me eat or drink after> > midnight, then not do surgery until late in the day. Then bring some> > slimy inedible left over.> > > Good news! My pulmonary pressures dropped from 61 to 40 with the> > Flolan. My Angioplasty and stent placement was successful. I nowhave> > a Hickman Catheter buried in my chest. That surgery was horrific.> > They were trying not to give me much anesthesia and I came fully> > awake while they were jamming that apparatus through my neck. They> > take it up into the jugular vein, then down over the collar bone.> > That is where they were when I came to. That was worse pain than I> > have ever endured and they just kept going in spite of my screaming.> > My hands were secured or I would have been fighting my way out of> > there. I jumped the doc later. He said it was the anesthesiologist's> > fault, but I think they were both at fault. These guys should have> > been auto mechanics. It was awful. I think I will go on Montel and> > tell my story. It is over and I will try to put it behind me, but I> > keep remembering the sounds and smell and I remember the warm blood> > running down the back of my> > > neck. Lordy, how do you forget that. Idiots!> > > They did the stent, etc on Tue, the teeth extraction on Thursday> > and the butchering job on Saturday. On Sunday, Shelby (my 14 yearold> > grandaughter) came and we just snuggled up on the hospital bed and> > rested. We had such a good day. I was so dopey and she giggled all> day.> > > I was ever so ready to come home today. I just discovered that the> > entire time that I was in the hospital, I didn't take my Prednisone> > 20mg. I neglected to put it on my list. I know how dangerous it isto> > just stop. This doc wants me off and I want off, so I will call in> > the a.m. Maybe he will just let me stay off. That was stupid on my> > part. There is just so much to keep up with.> > > Well, I have some reading to do here. I have missed you guys. Be> > back tomorrow.> > >> > > Hugs, Joyce D.> > >> > > Pulmonary Fibrosis 1997 Bronchiectasis 2004 Pulmonary Hypertension> > 2008> > > Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (Lupus, RA, Sjogren's, etc)> > Rejected for Transplant 2006> > > .....I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the> > palm of my hands. Isaiah 49: 15-16> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > ---------------------------------> > > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile.> > Try it now.> > >> >>