Anne2Snakie

I am writing this from Seattle, in my hubby's hospital room! How about THAT! We are bringing him home again AGAIN on Monday. This time in the hospital was planned- we had his aorta ballooned, he is doing well, and we are bringing him home, to reiterate, on Monday. That is a GOOD thing! He'll still need his valves replaced in 5-10 years, but that's okay. We'll deal with this as things happen.

I am freaking out slightly less as time goes by, slowly, slightly. Which is good. Really good : )

Take Care!!

Anne

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my low self-esteem tells me i have to apologise to everyone for what i am going to tell you, even tho i KNOW i don't have to. anyway.

my major writing projects are on hold, as you may have guessed from my lack of posting anything on my major writing projects. my husband is in the hospital again, planned this time, getting his aorta "ballooned", to keep him going for five or ten years before we have to get his his heart valves replaced. and we are STILL getting used to the idea hat he may be a good canditdate for a heart-lung transplant somretime in the future. so i'm busy FREAKING out about all this and trying to take care of the kids and myself.

and speaking of myself, i'm a mess. i'm having contractions all the time, false labor but hurts like doing curlups ALL THE TIME, 24 hours a day. i'm on a shitload of diuretics becuase the extra fluid in my body is starting to pool in my lungs and THAT'S not good. i had scheduled my baby to be delivered by c-section in the first part of may but THAT may change if things keep going to hell.

so that's my life in a nutshell right now. i may write small stories just to kep myself from going INSANE, but major projects requiring intelltigent planning and foresight are "right out" at the moment.

thanks.

anne


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Today is the morning of the 12th of March, 2004. Had to specify the eyar in case you became confused. Anyway, yesterday we travelled back down to Seattle and PICKED UP RUDY AND BROUGHT HIM HOME. Not only is he past the "critical zone" but he is home where he belongs! He's on a lot of meds and very severe restrictions for a time, and soon he has to go back for a procedure that should sustain him until he needs his heart valves replaced but that is many years from now (Iat least 2 or 3).

I had been spending a lot of the past 3 (approx) weeks absolitely terrified and our entire family has been paralyzed. Now tho we are all a lot better, Rudy especially!! and that's a GREAT thing!!

Hasn't stopped me from using the keyboard tho : ) but I've been sitting next to him as much as I can while he rests.

You cannot KNOW how happy I am right now!! And you cannot KNOW how irritated Rudy is- he's on a TON of Lasix, a diuretic, and he doesn't have a nurse to empty his urinakl any more- he has to get up and WALK to the bathroom : ) But I am ECSTATIC he can getup and walk again!!!

anne

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My husband (code name: Rudy) has had a Cardiac Event, and now I can talk a little about it. We're past the ciritical time, and he's in no immediate danger. Thank the God I don't believe in. It's a long story, his heart, and I knew I married into potential heartbreak of my own when I married him but it was worth it and it's still worth it now.

Rudy is a two time cancer survivor, having had Hodgkins Lynphoma in his mid-teens. They used radiation treatment to "cure" it which is good and bad. \Good, because it saved his life, bad because it gave him thyroid cancer 10 years later and he had to have THAT removed. Also bad, because the radiation damaged his heart and his lungs.

Right now he's in the hospital, non-critical care, and his "event" has "given" him congestive heart failure which sounds scary and it is, but they have treatments for that, medicinal and surgical.

He may be coming home soon, for a while, before having to go back in for a "procedure", and we're looking at a valve replacement in 5 to 10 years, and a POSSIBLE, POSSIBLE need for a heart TRANSPLANT sometime in the future.

Sweet Jesus.

Everytime things have gone good in my life, something has happened to fuck it up, and things were going good and now- well, I may have done it to myself, but this affects HIM worse. It will just make me and the kids SAD if he dies, but it will make him DEAD if he dies so I guess I have it easy.

Anne

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