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dazzledbylight

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:scratch: on this set of Macs I never get the smilies so I couldn't find the "Yeild Sign"' on the Message icon......so tried the vB code......in the thread opening [ i see it didn't work]


My sis had to have emrgency surgery yesterday.
:ohmy: :ohmy: I only found out this mid-morning when a long-time mutual friend called.

It was for a condition - a bio-mechanical situation that can cause [and did] illness and in her case emrgency surgery [or worse] if not dealt with in time.

Our mutual friend after piecing together what she heard from my sis, 2 other friends of my sis [i know] and what I told her today---thinks it's possible that with her high pain tolerance and perhaps in denial did NOT tell her specialist ALL the symptons.... becuase she'd been getting sick on & off for several months.....we had to cancel our 4th of July plans because she'd had THE worse up until yesterday.......OTHRWEWISE he would have hauled her off to the hospital way sooner.

She IS !!! thank the Powers!!! doing quite well under the circumstances - one of her friends {a nurse} was there when i called her cellphone {the friend} to find out when i could speak to her at length , and get her professional take on it.

AND of course there is the Recovery Period which may be not a short one IF the last time [which was NOT an emergency but nearing urgency at the time] is any indicator, and earlier on the risk of infection, accidents possible causing stitches to open etc....
...... and then doing what she has to do - some serious lifestyle adjustemnts- in order for her to really REDUCE the risk of this happening again. :yikes:


Plus we have to tell our mom at some point in a ferw days (?). :uhoh: SHe'll probably handle it ok, but she's not totally in the best of health so.....

I have to keep MY worrying to a minimum, whisch is a genuine problem for me at times so i can be there for her.
But there are maybe 3 things ...one I really can't do...because of how my shoulder accident healed up.....holsding/moving people around in ceirtain postions [them & me}. the 2nd.....I'd have to sleep in her room b/c she doesn't have a/c in the living room and she's on the TOP floor of a 'tarbeach' [blasck tar- not the NEWER white paint w rlecting mica or something that reduces the heat by 10 - 15 degrees F...yeah really! it's an oven in there in the summer above 85 F] .
The other......I hope i don't have to do b/c I really don't feel competent to deal with it. Hopefully as in the past she'll have a Home Health Aide to help her in those 2 areas. :pray: :pray: ( OOooppss:giggle: I forgot I hhave to use the CAP 'P' on the 'pray' smilie!)


ANY way.......phheeewww.........:wipesbrow:

hadn't had time to talk to any of MY here in the city friends yet b/c I had something really important I HAD to get done myself today....which is why I am here where I am anyway.....but it then helped me to get this message out to those concerned faster. SORRY FOR THE LENGTH.

THANKS in Advance! BIG :hug:S

I'll chec k in either later tonight after i see her or [she did NOT sound like she wanted me there :sigh: other friends are visiying - but I'm sure she wantas me to get some stuff from her apt or maybe check some things in her apt~ which I am glad to be able to do for her.
Or I'LL CHECK IN TOMORROW.

TTFN : )
 
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:huh:
plus I have to contact my realtives too.

some whom for some reason I don't have correct e-m addies. the last time i did a multi-EM. :scratch:
Someone else may have to play partial e-m 'telephone' where AT least the message usually DOSEN'T get scrambled like in the teleephone game.
 
unico said:
:hug: oh dazz, i'm hopin everyone gets well.

oh and what's your e-mail?

thank you :hug:

it's~

aquawave@mail2song.com

i think :huh:
i have several. my mind's a bit scrambled right now doing 3 things at once! :ohmy:

I wanted to get in touch with you ANYWAY b/c i want to try for a meet up when ytou & U2D visit .......sings :whistle: "........in my home town....." :wink: NYC! :D
 
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I talked to her.......she'll be in the hospital till, or thru Sunday.
then she's going to stay at her friend's [the nurse] house.
THAT'S good. akes Me feel MORE secure.
I'll pick up stuff for her from her house, and take it to her tomorrow [Sat].

She sounded good.
 
*UPDATE*

i WAS going to do this Sat nite BUT the connectio n here suddenly went blooey....i think on MY end b/c no one said they were having problems when i just looked at late nite Sat posts now....


I saw my sis SAT late nite...she's slowly doing better.
We did one of the 'walks around the floor' that she has to do.
i brought her all the stuff she needed,

Sun I called and she wasn't picking the phone, so i got a little worried but thought she might have been up and about with her other visitrs even as to going down to the nice cafe they have in thatpavillion in the hospital complex.
THEN she CALLED ME.... :lol:

turns out she did so well as far as the things that needed to be in good shape before she'd be let go, that she left a day early---so she called me from her friend's house.
This freind of hers is a NURSE...so she'll have 3 extra days of a proffesional at that level looking over her.

She says she'll probaly be home Weds. And she's got a few weeks home, i guess. SO i hope she's going to get a health aide or something for at least another week. Unless she really doesn't need one [and she tends to think she can do more for herself than she might be ready for] I'd certainly go up to keep her company and go & buy things she needs etc.

SO thanks for all your good thots & prayers.

If you'd keep sending some her way.......till she's at stronger level of recovery WHEN you remeber I'd really appreciate it. :)

{{{BIG HUGS}}} to you all!!! :heart:
 
:hug: So pleased to hear the good news about your sister Dazz. She's lucky to have such caring friends and family. That will surely help in her recovery. :hug:
 
-another update-

she's staying at her nurses friend for an extra day....me :happy:


AND
talking to her last night... #warning#.......
.....the tough stuff..... :eek:


she told me that when she was sick way late into the night/actually early morning of The 4th [USA] ...she was feeling SO bad......but she couldn't face going to the hospital, so she prayed that god would let her live.....[ she didn't tell me this, when she cancled our 4th Fireworks get together - just that she felt realy REALLYl sick]

THEN when it happened again last thurs......and she watched the condition double in it's effect within a hour or less.....she decided she couldn't ask god TWICE in such a short time for a miaicle without her doing something for herself.
It took her 3 hours to get up the strength to move [she called someone that helped her make the decision] to get to the phone to call a Car Service...........

I said......" a CAR Service!??!! ":eyebrow:

she said "... It'd be faster than an ambulance....."
I concided she MIGHT have been right!

She had told me some of what seemed to be wrong..........
I have guessed what could have gone further wrong if she hadn't gone when she did.....
and I hadn't managed to catch her friend the nurse to get the full details.....till yestertday night after i talked to her.

SO i told her friend what I thot...and she said..."you're pretty good at this".

and I was mostly right.......
and yes, tho -- "the final straw' happened quickly last Thurs morn- so it wasn't her fault [said nurse friend].... ..on waiting as she had been trying to till even better conditions physically would have made the surgery she needed at some point even better....
....even tho it wasn't her fault....she could really could have died [genuine worse case scenario], the middle secenario would have been having to have an additional different procedure to have certain things done temporarily for months until certainn things calmed down and then refix thoings things better...or *best case* [under the circumstances].......how it *DID* turn out. :wipesbrow:

so I'M still kinda in a state of physcological semi-shock.....
so is she....even as she gets better physically.

Her nurse friend told our mom Fri night. Then my sis had a good long talk w her Sat or Sun. But right now my sis told me our mom feels better if she {sis} calls her every day. [our mom has had nearer to death than expereinces not a bunch of times during our lrives and NOT all in her later yrs :yikes:]

so ***Thank You*** ALL again for your help! :heart: :hug:S
 
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:hug: Dazz, how scary for your sister (and you and your family) :yikes: At least she got help in time, that's the main thing. I'll keep sending positive thoughts!
 
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