On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:31:58 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


"JimH" wrote in message
.. .
Hi all.

First for all thanks for all the well wishes.

I had the operation on Tuesday 1-16. It was a 3 1/2 hour surgery. I was
finally released on Thursday 1-18. That night was the first good night of
sleep I had since the operation as there was no hospital staff to wake me
up every hour through the night.

My right leg is somewhat numb and I need a walker to get around as it will
not consistently hold my weight. I had been confined to the 2nd story of
house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the confinement so
I got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my butt and one
step at a time.

With 312 unread messages (after I filtered out the ones from the a-holes,
including the non boating golfers) I have a lot of reading to do


Congratulations.
We had a scare here also. My mother got the flu and we think she inhaled a
bit of her vomit overnight and she quickly developed pneumonia.
It looked tricky...especially when the medical team wanted a meeing with the
family. After four days the meds finally cut in and she improved steadily.
After a 12 day stay she was released back home on the 18th. At this point
she is only able to do three laps of our hall, kitchen, living room & dining
room 'oval track' but we'll work at it.


Don, two houses down from us lived a lady about 90 years old. Her husband
died last summer, and many of us in the neighborhood would help out with
yard work, soup, or whatever, even though she had children living only a
few blocks away.

Yesterday I looked out front to see the street filled with fire trucks. Her
house was burning. She died in the fire. We don't know the whole story yet,
the cause, etc. I thought I'd share the story with you just so you'd keep
things like that in mind with your mom. There are lots of things that can
cause a fire when a person gets old, slower, and forgetful.


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***** Have a super day! *****

John H