Sept 8-Alarm goes off at 3:30 am-We're up and on the road by 4:15 am! It only takes an hour to get to Rochester and we are there by 5:15 am. Park the car and walk over to the hospital and check in. It's 5:30 am and there are 3 gals at the desks and they're not quite ready to go yet. Enter number 4 and she's just gotten engaged over the weekend!! :) Alright, we get registered and are now upstairs and moving thru the pre-op procedures. It's 6:30a and now Gary's walking off to the operating room. His AC joint repair Surgury started at 8:14 am and by 9:20am it was over. By 11:15 am he was upstairs in his room on the 8th floor of Methodist hospital (Rm 8-225B). During surgery, Gary had a couple of heartbeat skips, so they did a EKG on him in his room. I don't know any of the results yet as I'm still waiting to hear from the Doctor. Called Gary's room about 4:30p to see how he was doing....he had just gotten sick and they were getting things back in order. I knew that was going to happen .... one of those things that I can't handle.
I think the lack of sleep, people possibly getting sick and my nerves took a toll on me...I wasn't feeling too great, so I tucked him in and said I'd see him later. At noon I headed home...boy that was a long drive...could hardly stay awake but made it home and took a 3.5 hr nap. Gary sounded much better by 5:30pm. I think he'll be going home tomorrow.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Gary's accident update
Friday, June 19 - @5:30 pm
Gary was unloading bales of hay onto the hay conveyor when the chain broke at the top of the conveyor. He pulled the conveyor out of the barn to lower it and fix/replace the broken links at the top of the conveyor by lowering that end to the ground. In the middle of the process, something broke and the entire conveyor collapsed on top of him. I heard the crash and went outside to see what happened. I found him laying under the conveyor, picked it up a few inches and told him to get out from under it. It had knocked him unconscious, so he doesn't remember some of the events. After calling 9-1-1, the first responders and ambulance crews arrived and they decided to air lift him by Mayo One to Rochester. Being it had knocked him unconscious, I was concerned about head injury, it also lacerated his right ear, seriously bruised his right shoulder and upper arm, collapsed a lung and broke 4 ribs.
Saturday, June 20-Tuesday, June 23
Gary spent Father's Day weekend in ICU at St. Mary's with a chest tube in his right side. He was moved to a general surgery/trauma unit room for Sunday afternoon, Monday and Tuesday. His chest X-ray Tuesday a.m. was satisfactory enough for them to discharge him that evening. He came home with prescription Oxycodone and to pick up some Tylenol and Ibuprophen for pain. He's one lucky man...God wasn't quite ready for this tough German just yet!! Thank goodness, because I wasn't ready for him to be gone yet either,...so God answered my prayer!
Sunday, June 27
Gary takes last dose (not all gone in the prescription) Oxycodone...doesn't like the strange feeling it gives him. He'll see if he can tolerate the pain without it for now. Will just continue the Tylenol and Ibuprophen, some ice packs on his shoulder and back.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Gary's incision site is healing and we return to Rochester on 7/7/09 for a two week checkup X-ray and consult with his Trauma Doctor. We are concerned about his shoulder so we'll be inquiring about that then. He's doing things that I'd prefer he not do, but he's doing them knowing that the more he keeps that up the longer it will take for the ribs to heal properly! He is just not a sit-around and watch TV kind of patient! Although he did mention how nice the chauffering service is that he's getting!
He's received many nice cards, emails, visits, phone calls and much concern about his accident. It's given him an eye-opening experience to remember for a while! He really appreciates everyone's concern about him.
Gary was unloading bales of hay onto the hay conveyor when the chain broke at the top of the conveyor. He pulled the conveyor out of the barn to lower it and fix/replace the broken links at the top of the conveyor by lowering that end to the ground. In the middle of the process, something broke and the entire conveyor collapsed on top of him. I heard the crash and went outside to see what happened. I found him laying under the conveyor, picked it up a few inches and told him to get out from under it. It had knocked him unconscious, so he doesn't remember some of the events. After calling 9-1-1, the first responders and ambulance crews arrived and they decided to air lift him by Mayo One to Rochester. Being it had knocked him unconscious, I was concerned about head injury, it also lacerated his right ear, seriously bruised his right shoulder and upper arm, collapsed a lung and broke 4 ribs.
Saturday, June 20-Tuesday, June 23
Gary spent Father's Day weekend in ICU at St. Mary's with a chest tube in his right side. He was moved to a general surgery/trauma unit room for Sunday afternoon, Monday and Tuesday. His chest X-ray Tuesday a.m. was satisfactory enough for them to discharge him that evening. He came home with prescription Oxycodone and to pick up some Tylenol and Ibuprophen for pain. He's one lucky man...God wasn't quite ready for this tough German just yet!! Thank goodness, because I wasn't ready for him to be gone yet either,...so God answered my prayer!
Sunday, June 27
Gary takes last dose (not all gone in the prescription) Oxycodone...doesn't like the strange feeling it gives him. He'll see if he can tolerate the pain without it for now. Will just continue the Tylenol and Ibuprophen, some ice packs on his shoulder and back.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Gary's incision site is healing and we return to Rochester on 7/7/09 for a two week checkup X-ray and consult with his Trauma Doctor. We are concerned about his shoulder so we'll be inquiring about that then. He's doing things that I'd prefer he not do, but he's doing them knowing that the more he keeps that up the longer it will take for the ribs to heal properly! He is just not a sit-around and watch TV kind of patient! Although he did mention how nice the chauffering service is that he's getting!
He's received many nice cards, emails, visits, phone calls and much concern about his accident. It's given him an eye-opening experience to remember for a while! He really appreciates everyone's concern about him.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
New Dogs on the Block
On October 11, we made a trip to a Northfield, MN breeder's kennel. We have been looking to replace Pebbles, Eric's Dalmatian, who died just before Christmas last year. We all like the Dalmatian breed and have for years. Spots on an Appaloosa ranch is just a must! Well we had to take both dogs if we took them, so we now have 4 dogs (3 in the barn & 1 in the house), 6 horses, 5 cats and 4 mini goats....a real "phun"-ny pharm!! They are Prince and Patches. We will probably have a litter of pups as neither dog is fixed (yet)....and Gary thinks it would be nice to have a litter. He has one sold to a neighbor that stopped by tonight if we do have a litter! Good grief Charlie Brown!!
Trip to North Platte, NE
A week ago, sister Jane and I took a quick road trip to North Platte, NE for her uncle Lloyd Johnson's funeral. We left my house at 8 am and following a quick lunch break in Shelby, IA we pulled into North Platte about 5:10 pm. After settling into the Hampton Inn, we met with Bill and Bunny Johnson. This was Bill's brother's funeral. There were family stories shared. Jane was most excited to meet Lloyd's 2 daughters, Peggy and Barbara. Peggy and Jane knew of each other as children but hadn't seen one another since some 55 years ago. Barbara is closer to my age. Lloyd's widow, has an amazing memory. While she was excited that Jane had come for the funeral, she looked over her shoulder at me (sitting in a pew back a ways) and said "Is that Stephanie?" "Stephanie E____ (blanked out for security purposes)?" While picking up my jaw, I walked up by Jane and the widow and I gave her my sympathy and then she asked about my sister Susan E____, brother Steven (she couldn't remember his middle name) and Sindi....I am still just flabergasted by her knowledge of our family. I don't know this woman, she only lived in our hometown for a few years, yet she knew all about us! Just amazing...
We left Wednesday directly after the burial at Fort McPherson Nat'l Cemetary. This was very stoic...the Air Force Base Honor Guard did an OUTSTANDING job for this veteran. The wind was blowing 40-50 mph, misting or raining and cold! Yet they maintained their composure, folded the flag like you'd see at the Washington DC Tomb of the Unknown soldier.... and I could really feel for the soldier who played Taps...my lips were cold just thinking of it! We left North Platte in rainy conditions and about 20 minutes later we were driving in SNOW! That lasted about 30 minutes and then we drove in rain all the way back to Des Moines. We got back to my place at 12:15 am Thursday morning. Manned with the Garman GPS system we got there and back thru the big towns of Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha and North Platte! Now Jane just needs to name her!! We had a nice trip even though it was a sad situation. Good time bonding with Jane!
We left Wednesday directly after the burial at Fort McPherson Nat'l Cemetary. This was very stoic...the Air Force Base Honor Guard did an OUTSTANDING job for this veteran. The wind was blowing 40-50 mph, misting or raining and cold! Yet they maintained their composure, folded the flag like you'd see at the Washington DC Tomb of the Unknown soldier.... and I could really feel for the soldier who played Taps...my lips were cold just thinking of it! We left North Platte in rainy conditions and about 20 minutes later we were driving in SNOW! That lasted about 30 minutes and then we drove in rain all the way back to Des Moines. We got back to my place at 12:15 am Thursday morning. Manned with the Garman GPS system we got there and back thru the big towns of Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha and North Platte! Now Jane just needs to name her!! We had a nice trip even though it was a sad situation. Good time bonding with Jane!
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