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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@keno.org
Subject: I'm back from a visit to the valley of death......
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Time: 3:06:38 PM
Remote Address: 66.243.196.99
Message ID: 210212
Parent ID: 0
Thread ID: 210212
....and I didn't dig the place at all, glad to be back and happy I didn’t enter that valley!
I now know for sure of one way I don’t ever what to die; to think we loose so many of our elderly to pneumonia each year, that is not the way anybody should have to leave this Earth after so many years.
I had pneumonia once before, back in 1980, and from what I recall it was nothing like what I have now. Back then I only had it in one lung, and I don’t recall any such pain, just coughing a lot. This time both of my lungs were infected, plus the blood clot, had I not gotten to the hospital when I did, I might not have made it.
I was told by several doctors that you can’t get pneumonia any worst than what I had. I believe it!
My story is way too long to tell here, but Saturday the 17th was the day when I entered the hospital and the most painful day of my entire life. Little did I know that when they would release me, days too early, that I would suffer two more such days that week at home again (other than I did have some powerful pain pills to help me deal with it on those two days).
I ended up in the hospital that Saturday afternoon, in part thanks to my 6 year old grandson Cooper who was alone at home with me and help save me. He doesn’t want to hear any of that now, as he tells friends, “my granddad would have been just fine anyway, I just got Sherry to help him”
In a nutshell, I was found by Coop on the floor (don’t know how I got there), I was in great pain and could not breath and he ran for help. Jackie was out of town still and I was supposed to be taking care of Cooper and his brother, not the other way around.
At the hospital ER my heart rate was around 220 beats per minute! They started sticking IVs into me and kept saying over and over “we got to get his heart rate down now!”, in about 15 minutes they did and off for X-rays I went. I believe Jackie filled you in enough with the rest of the story.
After I got back from the hospital I could not move at all for the first two days. Jackie really saved me those days; I could not have made it without her. She did everything for me and I mean everything. I only this Saturday was able to talk again without getting sick and didn't even go near my computer till Sunday night - when I was finally feeling well enough to do so; I wanted to post to you Gassers then but didn't have the energy yet to.
I thank all of you for all of the kind words and well wishes in the threads below, you are all so very cool and special. So many of you wrote me emails too, and I will soon get back to all of you on those, but it might take some time. I don't plan on reading anymore posts here today as it is I'm still sick and real weak. In the emails I received, a few former Gassers wrote me, that was so cool to hear from them, and one current Gasser directed me to a thread at Rocks Off of all places, wishing me well. I was very surprised by that, I know you Gassers would show your support and love, but to see it over there was a bit shocking, because of that problem me and VC have had. Yet even he sent me well wishes, so I want to thank all of them over there at RO for that, from the bottom of my heart. All of your kind words helped me, believe me, even if it took several days to read it all.
Okay, I can’t write anymore. I will have a lot of catching up to do in the next few weeks and not sure when I will post again, but my goal for now is to have new polls up this Sunday night, as long as I keep improving.
Again, thanks to all of you for sending your love my way, believe me; I’m happy to have such wonderful friends and family – both on and off line.
Love
Keno
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