Pray for Mike

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:55 pm

Goodspeed, I wish yur husband well!

DoriC - I'm so glad to read that Mike is none the worse for his "lesson" learned!!! (((hugs))) to you both!

Guest wrote:My husband had an incident and 911 was called. He could not speak and could not stop throwing up, tired as well. He has been trying different mask, its been hard for him. Hospital kept him and ran some test, thought it might be a mini stroke. They decided it was vertigo. However I insisted on an MRI because I read in the new paper that a lady went into see her Doctor for headaches and they did a brain scan found nothing and sent her home. Two weeks later she had a stroke. If they would have performed an MRI they would have saw the blood clot! I read this two days after my husband was out of the hospital. He had his MRI done this past Friday and Sunday his Doctor called and he has two cyst on the right side of his brain. They can cause seizures and many other things.
I hope this helps and I pray to our Dear Lord Jesus that He heal your husband and give the Doctors great wisdom and direction!
God Bless you both.

DoriC · Post by **DoriC** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:01 pm

Godspeed(Guest), thank you for your blessings, I hope all goes well for you and your husband. What is the outcome of the cysts they found? Your post gives important information for everyone. I'm glad our drs were on the ball and immediately did a CT brain scan and a repeat 2 days later as well as other tests to rule out stroke, clots or other unknown causes.

SleepingUgly · Post by **SleepingUgly** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:48 am

I hope everyone is feeling better soon!

HoseCrusher · Post by **HoseCrusher** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:14 am

Don't be too hard on Mike. I think it is just a "male" thing. We all do stuff that we shouldn't do, then are surprised when we suffer consequences.

Here is hoping for a speedy recovery.

OutaSync · Post by **OutaSync** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:46 am

Oh, no! Now you have two wounds to dress? I'm so sorry, but glad he didn't break any bones.

Bev

robysue · Post by **robysue** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:56 pm

Dori,

Just stopping by to check on how things with you and Mike are going. I'm sorry to hear about the setback. But glad to see that overall there's finally been some good positive progress on that shrapnel wound ...

DoriC · Post by **DoriC** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:36 pm

OutaSync wrote:Oh, no! Now you have two wounds to dress? I'm so sorry, but glad he didn't break any bones.

Bev

And don't forget the wet heating pad that I have to put on his ribcage 3-4x/day! And taking care of his cpap stuff:? I really know how lucky we are that this accident wasn't worse than it is, but thanks for letting me "kvetch"(complain) about it here anyway as I try to keep my emotions under control with my family and some of my friends are dealing with their own issues.

jbn3boys · Post by **jbn3boys** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:56 pm

It's beginning to sound like you need a nurse to come in to help you out, so you can "just" be Mike's wife!!!

Maybe you need to "kvetch" a little to your family, so they know you could use some help.

If not, then feel free to "kvetch" here all yiou want! That;s what we are here for!

DoriC · Post by **DoriC** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:19 pm

Thanks jbn, in the interest of full disclosure I do have a visiting nurse coming 2x/wk to do wound care and vitals, she hasn't seen his arm yet but she'll be here tomorrow and I know she'll be upset because she's really attached to Mike.

SleepingUgly · Post by **SleepingUgly** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:20 pm

DoriC wrote:Thanks jbn, in the interest of full disclosure I do have a visiting nurse coming 2x/wk to do wound care and vitals

That's a drop in the bucket! You're still responsible for the lion's share of the work.

I think parents should kvetch to their children, if for no other reason than as payback for all the kvetching the parents had to hear from the kids. When my daugher's all grown up and has a million things to do, I look forward to whining daily to her about at least 4 pains/injuries that I have going simultaneously, for which I will demand 5 different bandaids for no less than 6 days in a row. For good measure, I will also point out every wrinkle, scar, sun-damage spot, broken blood vessel, grey hair, and skin tag on her entire body. I'm getting excited just thinking about it!!

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:33 pm

Dori
You are a real trouper - he is lucky to have you.

Cheers

DSM

DoriC · Post by **DoriC** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:40 am

SleepingUgly wrote:
DoriC wrote:Thanks jbn, in the interest of full disclosure I do have a visiting nurse coming 2x/wk to do wound care and vitals
That's a drop in the bucket! You're still responsible for the lion's share of the work.

I think parents should kvetch to their children, if for no other reason than as payback for all the kvetching the parents had to hear from the kids. When my daugher's all grown up and has a million things to do, I look forward to whining daily to her about at least 4 pains/injuries that I have going simultaneously, for which I will demand 5 different bandaids for no less than 6 days in a row. For good measure, I will also point out every wrinkle, scar, sun-damage spot, broken blood vessel, grey hair, and skin tag on her entire body. I'm getting excited just thinking about it!!

I've read about you somewhere, "MOMMIE DEAREST'!!! I guess I have a higher threshhold than I thought. I've always thought of myself as the nervous, high-anxiety type but apparently when push comes to shove, I'm really stronger than I thought. It's always in the back of my mind though that IF I really need my kids I know I can count on them. It's just something that upsets me to have to disturb their lives in any way if I don't possbibly have to. Believe me, I don't feel like a martyr or anything, it's just this deep love and nurturing I still feel for these two great kids I raised. My mother was the same way with me and my sister until the end. I think she died quietly in her sleep after spending a pleasant summer day with us just so she wouldn't give us any trouble.

SleepingUgly · Post by **SleepingUgly** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:17 pm

DoriC wrote: I guess I have a higher threshhold than I thought. I've always thought of myself as the nervous, high-anxiety type but apparently when push comes to shove, I'm really stronger than I thought. It's always in the back of my mind though that IF I really need my kids I know I can count on them. It's just something that upsets me to have to disturb their lives in any way if I don't possbibly have to.

So maybe your not "disturbing" your kids is good for you because it gives you the opportunity to rise up to the challenge, and realize that you're stronger than you thought and not as highly anxious as you thought. Feelings of self-competence are good. You've certainly demonstrated no lack of tenacity and pluck here on the board.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt

DoriC · Post by **DoriC** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:59 pm

SleepingUgly wrote:
DoriC wrote: ' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt

That seems to be my mantra every morning these days! Eleanor has always been my hero. "Why did you go into the mines"..."Because I am my husband's legs".

tattooyu · Post by **tattooyu** » Wed May 23, 2012 5:49 pm

Glad to hear that things have stabilized a bit with you and Mike! It gives me the shpilkes and I am about to kvell.

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