When you have a large family, the excitement never seems to diminish. Bless our Blackberries and our laptops, etc. for enabling us to keep in close touch with one another. No longer are we deafies second class citizens always depending on others to do our communicating for us during a serious and difficult situation.
As some of you know, my youngest son JJ has Ankylosing Spondylitis. It is a rare form of arthritis where your spine fuses together and any movement is very painful. Many years ago he was bringing his daughter home from the babysitters and a woman slammed into his car broadside, causing JJ's car to roll several times before it became
upright in someone's front yard. His daughter was fine, buckled into her car seat, but JJ found himself on the floorboards with one leg wrapped around his neck!
Well he had a badly crushed pelvis, partially due to the fact that his bones had become brittle over the years from the meds he had been taking for pain. The Medical hospital U of Ca/Davis did a great job of patching him up. That was quite a few years ago, and now he lives in Washington State and the time came to replace his "borrowed" hip. No surgeon in the Northwest would touch his case, -- except one. This doctor practices putting people back together after their bones have been destroyed by cancer. He is a highly skilled and valued surgeon. Everyone assured JJ that this doctor was the right man for the job!
I am very happy to say that JJ came out of his newest surgery a transfigured man; pain, yes, but he felt good and very, very optimistic. This time he had the good sense to warn the staff, "No Morphine". That was the key. Morphine does such strange things to people!
One scare day before yesterday when his leg and foot swelled up like a balloon. JJ's wife and daughter are both nurses and of course their suspicions were "Bloodclot!", but a trip back to OHSU and an ultra sound assured everyone that there was no bloodclot. Whew!
I stayed in a hotel in downtown Portland for several days during the operation and recovery, and the whole family was able to keep in touch via our Blackberries.
The Blackberries did not keep us from getting lost in Portland, but they helped us getting un-lost!
But that is another story.
Until then, hugs from Lantana
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Glad JJ is okay. Bless our Blackberries and our doctors!
ReplyDeleteHugs.
~ LaRonda
WOW.
ReplyDeleteA friend informed me you can add GPS to your Blackberry to prevent getting lost. I'm not sure how, though. Just thought you'd like to know.
I'm glad JJ is okay too.
Shel
For sure I have a minature "GPS" on my dear Blackberry, but they are soooo tiny and when it is night time and you are in unfamiliar territory, with cars zipping by at 60 - 75 miles per hour, the BB is not really much use. I usually plot my trips before I leave home. I finally did it the old fashioned way and stopped at a Minit Mart or somesuch, but the clerk in there spoke very little English, we just stood and looked at one another! Another customer tried to help me with a map, but I could not read the map, the figures were too small! Finally my daughter in law "Blackberried me in" and I arrived at my hotel in once piece and headed straight for the wine cooler!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind wishes. JJ was returned to EMERGENCY the other night due to extensive swelling. His wife and daughter are both nurses and they whispered "blood clot!" so back he went for an ultra sound. No blood clot! Just post-op swelling. Again, bless my Blackberry, whatever did we do without them? Send smoke signals??
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful news! Thanks for the update on your son JJ. I remember that you've mentioned that pain he was in, and I have thought of him from time to time.
ReplyDeleteWow, I glad he's alright!
ReplyDeleteI learn about GPS in blackberry. Chris show me in website about deaf man from Deafvideo.tv. they talked about GPS. it is worth to have GPS to find your son. It is kind of scary about blood cloth.
Off the topic,
About two week ago, I watched Oprah about one father who lost his wife due to blood cloth after she had a newborn daughter and he raise his own daughter after his wife's death was unexpected. That man is very heart-aches. It is really hard on him and raise her by himself. So, he took "Mom'n Kids" to join together as children play in playground. 8 mother taught him. It is really touch my heart. he learn his mistaken Do and Don't and listen mother and children talked together. I think wonderful and Same time I think GPS is save his life,too.
Lantana, Take care!
Both my own daughter and my daughter in law have been the victims of bloodclots. My daughter in law had four clots in her lungs! JanMarie my oldest daughter had them in one leg. Both women blame HRT (Hormone replacement therapy) so the quickly went off of HRT.
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