Registered Member #1004
Joined: 12:54:02 pm GMT 03/16/07
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Words seem small when situations like this happen, but know that all of us here will be thinking of you both and wishing you and the misses the best, with hopes that recovery goes well.
Registered Member #633
Joined: 3:59:33 pm GMT 10/24/05
Posts: 1173
Thank you all so very much.
Mrs. AA is recovering nicely for a woman who was told ten days ago she might only have 72 hours to live. While the hospitals in Charlotte are very good, they don't have the expertise to deal with the combination of respiratory problems and Muscular Dystrophy (which are quite common in people with her particular form of MD, Myotonic dystrophy).
After hearing that she would not survive the ordeal, I made a few phone calls to some old friends in New York (one of whom is the Chief Neurologist at Hospital for Special Surgery; he runs the MDA clinic there, and is one of the top experts in Muscular Dystrophy in the country), who made a few more phone calls, and got Mrs. AA a bed at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell-Weill Medical Center (where he sends all of his MD patients with respiratory ills), which has a ward that specializes in this very thing.
Ten days later, she's almost her old self (which is to say, complaining, bossy, too talkative, and perhaps a touch crabby), and is expected to be sent home within the next three or four days.
I want to thank everyone for their kind comments and concern for my family. I'm quite touched.
Mrs. AA is appreciative, as well, and wants to know if this means I was playing "that damned game of your's" the entire time she was laying in a medically-induced coma after the intubation. Once the nurses told her I was sleeping on the hospital floor or in chairs next to her bed the entire time, she apologized profusely, and told me she had perhaps finally realized why I spend so much time playing NWN.
Because there's some great people doing the same thing.
Words are insufficient to express the gratitude I feel for everyone who has given us as much as wished us well these past 15 days.
Registered Member #191
Joined: 2:06:27 pm GMT 07/31/04
Posts: 443
This is great news, AA. I teared up (happy tears) just reading it. Fortunately, you had the contacts/network that saved Mrs. AA. Hopefully now your lives can return to some semblance of normalcy.
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