Casey...

 

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Cartoon Borrowed from here.
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Good Evening.
Top question from my email and my answering machine (besides "send us your money or else"), is "How is Casey?"
She is still hospitalized.
We have not heard back from Froedtert yet either.
Perhaps a call from her doctor here will get that ball rolling. (Even after I had b*tched at him for ignoring her calls, and her pain, the other day).

Her amylase and lipase counts -more than doubled when she was admitted, had begun to come back down yesterday.
Unfortunately those same counts were on the rise again today, securing at least one more day in the hospital for her.

She called a few hours ago, feeling much worse than when I had visited earlier.

• She is in obvious pain.
• She is tired.
• She is stressed.
  
  • And darned hungry

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AND,
she is hanging in there too.
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She has a gentle, very soft spoken, and kind, lady doctor. (Dr. Sinclair).
And I believe these doctors are finally realizing that this girl of mine canNOT be treated as conventional medicine would allow for chronic pancreatitis.
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This, because she is NOT their conventional pancreatitis patient.
She is 21.
By anyone's admission she is approximately 40 years too young to be having this affliction to begin with.
WTH?
Quite obviously she can't be treated the same as a 60 year old man who has drank his way through the last 40 years of his life.
(I do believe she is rewriting the medical books for this disease)...
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...Or perhaps just the coloring books...

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hehehe

(A great diversion if you ask me).

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One nurse had 'secured' her IV (against Casey's protests) a bit too tight.
The "bruising" you see actually bled...
(That nurse has been dealt with
and is not permitted in Casey's room anymore).
This one being the only negative experience this time.
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But then I come home from the hospital,
and am welcomed home by this sight.
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My 2nd driveway
turning to Autumn...

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Miss Punk misses her.
That little toy a sorry replacement for licking Casey's Face.

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• Sputnik misses her too...

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Meow! (Means "Hi Casey")!

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But at least Sputty has been kept a wee bit busy...
It is that time of year again...
...And the "mouses" are so very entertaining to him. He always shows a murderous side, spotting them.
Yes, he had one, quite tortured (and quite dead) by the time I removed it to the dumpster.

Dumpster?!?!?
Oops. (I never rolled it back in from the road today).
No big deal.
I didn't remember to roll it out there in the first place.
*sigh*
Good thing it's not hot and humid because that dumpster can really stink when the weather is warm.

Weather? We have not gone down to freezing again.
It has even been warm~ish (for us, and for now). I think it was about 70 today. That, and finally seeing the sunshine after all the rain was more than welcomed! And I believe this warmer weather may continue through the weekend.

Not too much other news... Actually no other news. hehehe

And time for me to catch up on a few of your own entries.

Have a good one!
Love to all.

XOXO
Anne

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Originally posted to my Y! 360 Wednesday October 8, 2008 - 11:05pm (CDT)