Post by Ken_Nye on Jan 14, 2008 14:54:52 GMT -5
Sunday night, Jan. 13,Maine Medical Center
Thanks for your positve thoughts, everyone. Unfortunately, I'm not out of the hospital , yet. I was released to go home last Wednesday but was put back in the next day. I'm going on day # 11t omorrw. The problem has been an obstruction of the bowel. Had emergency surgery Jan.3, and the problem ever since is a failure of the small intestine which was the site of the obstruction to start functioning. To give the intestine a chance to recover, I have been living on intravenous food and water. I''ve got a tube down my nose and throat that keeps my stomach empty. The major assocated problem is that, with the small intestine out of operation, no medicines can be absorbed into the bloodstream. So I have been without Parkinson's medications for going on two weeks now. I hadn't realized how far along I had come in the chronic progression of Parkinson's. I have been almost totally immobile (read (paralyzed) most mornings and nights.Not being able to move in a bed that is not mine, in a hospital that is not home, without my treasured wife keeping my spirits up until sunrise makes for long, dismal nights. I'm going to stop here because I'm obviously feeling sorry for myself and I'm getting into a rut. But now you know where I've been for the last two weeks.
Ken
Monday, January 14, 2008, 9:18am [Edit] [Delete]
EXTA! EXTRA! I'M HOME! We had been told by the surgical team that I would probably be going home Tuesay or Wednesday. Ann and I were playing Scrabble last night, not even considering the possibility that I might be going hiome, when the doctor came in and asked if we would like to go home.
YAYYYYYYYY!
I'll be back on site to a limited degree, but I wlll be back soon.
Thanks for your supppotive messages.
Ken
Thanks for your positve thoughts, everyone. Unfortunately, I'm not out of the hospital , yet. I was released to go home last Wednesday but was put back in the next day. I'm going on day # 11t omorrw. The problem has been an obstruction of the bowel. Had emergency surgery Jan.3, and the problem ever since is a failure of the small intestine which was the site of the obstruction to start functioning. To give the intestine a chance to recover, I have been living on intravenous food and water. I''ve got a tube down my nose and throat that keeps my stomach empty. The major assocated problem is that, with the small intestine out of operation, no medicines can be absorbed into the bloodstream. So I have been without Parkinson's medications for going on two weeks now. I hadn't realized how far along I had come in the chronic progression of Parkinson's. I have been almost totally immobile (read (paralyzed) most mornings and nights.Not being able to move in a bed that is not mine, in a hospital that is not home, without my treasured wife keeping my spirits up until sunrise makes for long, dismal nights. I'm going to stop here because I'm obviously feeling sorry for myself and I'm getting into a rut. But now you know where I've been for the last two weeks.
Ken
Monday, January 14, 2008, 9:18am [Edit] [Delete]
EXTA! EXTRA! I'M HOME! We had been told by the surgical team that I would probably be going home Tuesay or Wednesday. Ann and I were playing Scrabble last night, not even considering the possibility that I might be going hiome, when the doctor came in and asked if we would like to go home.
YAYYYYYYYY!
I'll be back on site to a limited degree, but I wlll be back soon.
Thanks for your supppotive messages.
Ken