Posted by: GeekBrat on: 05/24/2008
As I sit here waiting for visiting hours to starft for the day, I can’t but think “She’s going to be mad at me again”… Kim is just a couple hundred deet away, and I think of myself. While she has dialysis tubes sticking out of her chest. 4IV’s, a feeding tube up her nose. [...]
Posted by: GeekBrat on: 05/23/2008
I’m sitting here now… In the MICU waiting room @ Deborah Heart and Lung Center. I showed up early as I promised Kim, but the MICU receptionist said they weren’t ready for me yet. I belive today is a Dialysis day, so I hope they aren’t readying her for dialysis as i’m going to need [...]
Posted by: GeekBrat on: 05/23/2008
Just a small update, as I*s a little afcter midnight and I have to be up and about around 5:30ish am… I managed to get Kim to eat a little today. Very little, but the nurses were happy ans so was I. On the down side, she refused her medicine in the morning (anything in [...]
Posted by: GeekBrat on: 05/20/2008
U know… People keep asking me how I’m doing…. And I always say ‘fine’ or ‘alive’ or something similar… But the truth is, I haven’t been alive since Kim got sick. I exist, but that’s it. I can’t live without Kim. I can’t survive without knowing it’s going to be ok… And I just don’t [...]
Posted by: GeekBrat on: 05/02/2008
Here’s the latest…. Kim will be moved sometime between today and Friday to a Rehab facility somewhere closer to home. She will return to Deborah ‘in a fes weeks’ to have the cardioaversion done, after she’s had min 4 weks of ‘blood thining therapy’. Not sure I said this before but her fluids were so [...]
Posted by: GeekBrat on: 04/29/2008
Well as of this morning the Cardioversion is scheduled for tomorrow. This comes after one of Kim’s cardiologists telling us that it was to son and they would be worried about her throwing a clot if they did it, just last night… That’s a bit scary… Those of you that have Kim’s cellphone # are [...]
Posted by: GeekBrat on: 04/28/2008
Well the Cardioaversion or TEE (heard it caled both but I guess they could be different) will not happen today. They are going to do a chest x-ray to lok at the fluids on the lungs They are tenatively scheduleing for tomorrow but it’s all still up in the air. The are afraid her oxygen [...]
Posted by: GeekBrat on: 04/28/2008
Small update for thosethat ant to know… Kim lost 10lbs of fluid over the weekend thanks to a heavy diet of diuretics and low fluid consumption… As a direct result the ‘Cardioaversion’ procedure has been moved up to today and should happen shortly….. Also, a small sever update. We were DDoS’d we think (no definitive [...]