Good thots & prayers for my Dad? (Callie)

Thanks everyone!!

Kate thank you for that -- I'm glad to hear there are better options!!

Just reading this Callie, kind of getting a kick out of the way you describe your parents.... my DHs mom is a lot like what you are saying.... but CELL PHONE??? Not on your life.

Sending good thoughts and best wishes to your Dad in the hospitial and your mom who also needs care....and to you who wishes you could be there to help.

Callie I am just seeing this.   So sorry to hear your Dad is not up to parr.  You have talked before about your parents and how you have your special relationship but that doesnt keep a daughter from worry.   Gather strength from all our vibes, there is a still a pink sticky with your name on it at my computer it has just been joined by a green one with the word...PA....

Candle lit, hope today went well.

The colonoscopy is Tuesday just after noon apparently --

The nurses on this ICU wing have been superb, I have to say that.

Mom called me a 2d time tonite (WOW - the erth stopped!!) -- *smile* because she wanted to ask me "When the phone rings do I press "send" or "end call"???

 (I've never seen her phone)

I said "Well mine makes it easy -- a red button to stop anytyhing you're doing, and a green button to make anything 'go' OR to turn the phone on/off."  But I told her I'd assume "send" means sending to get the signal? 

That's one of those "It doesn't make sense but that's the way it is" like having to press the "Start" button to turn Windows OFF. 

Apparently you can't feel the buttons -- it's a flat face on the phone (which was a DUMB choice when they bought the phone 2 years ago -- um this lady is blind ... we need a phone she can do by TOUCH!!!)

My mother used to say "Why do they call it 'common sense' when it's SO uncommon??"

LOL, it is soooo difficult with all the new technology and terminolgy, hard enough for us "youngin's" to keep up with let alone our parents

Hope your Dad's test goes well this afternoon. 

don't have the whole story yet but b/c I hadn't heard from Mom I called ICU and nurse volunteered that Dad had just come back up but was asleep but that she knew they had "found a small bleeder and had fixed it" (she may have said "capped it";). 

 Mom actually didn't know that herself -- I called her cell and she actually picked it up and I was 'there' (smile). 

She'll call me tonight -- hopefully she'll see a doctor in the meantime. 

I posted ^^ in mindless chatter --

Mom told me more than she intended last night -- she's not ASKING how he is.  I think she's so scared she really doesn't want to know.  She snuck in today so the nurses didn't see her -- I think she was afraid to admit to herself how scared she was so she just didn't "bother" them.

This isn't like my mother -- she's the most in-your-face, can be REALLY abrasive person -- but she's not trying to find anything out and she almost said last night something like "I probably don't want to know anyway".

But a "bleeder" has to be the best news we could get -- I'll know later, but my guess is, if they'd found cancer the nurse would not have said a word to me.  She'd have wanted the doctor to break that news, and she wouldn't have "omitted" it giving me a false impression.

phew -- I feel like I've been beat up this week but I'm in pretty good shape for all that LOL

Dad's still got this persistant low-grade fever (99 or 98.9 -- and his "normal" is about 97 apparently) -- which they still don't have an answer for. 

I suspect it's just his body trying to defend itself against some antibodies in the transfused blood but I could be wrong.

Whew...I hope it is only that and your Mom and Dad can soon get back the "their" normal, :)

Dad was pretty loopey tonight and was saying some really dumb stuff -- definitely think it was still the sedative talking -- he was CONVINCED at 4:30 that because the Dr. repaired the "bleeder" that they were sending him home!!

Not with a blood pressure of 90 over 40 they aren't. 

I think he heard the dr. talking while he was still "Under" and it had a rather large impact on him

To be honest everyone was worrying about cancer and if that was a "no" then he was ready to go home! 

They're working on it -- but this IS a big huge relief if that's all they found.

Don't you love those loopy conversations with people on heavy painkillers?!    When my Mom had emergency surgery, the first couple times I talked to her after she was out of the recovery room, she was definitely in La-La Land.  It was funny when I talked to her later in that week, and she was much more coherent -- she had no recollection of what we'd talked about earlier!

I'm glad they didn't find anything more serious like cancer.  I'm sure he's eager to get home soon so he can recover in familiar surroundings.  Sending good vibes to him and to your Mom, and some relief vibes to you!

 Just catching up on this thread - God Bless You, Callie, isn't the turned relationship with our parents . . . interesting???  LOL

 Keeping you, your Dad and Mom in my prayers.

I'm glad that's all it was. Hopefully he can just work on healing up now!

When I was 19 or so I had surgery. I remember being in the recovery room and the patient next to me was going on and on and ON about how he was going to take all the nurses fishing with him once he was better. lol!

AT this point the challenge is getting his blood pressure regulated with the meds.  It was down to 65 over 26 this afternoon which is SCAREY low.  They've still got him on some sort of BP regulating med somehow -- I can't get a straight answer.  They're trying to prevent stroke but sheesh -- with bp like that he's going to fade away!

But Mom did get the news **FROM THE DOCTOR** that he saw **no** cancer -- just that one bleeder.  He's also got some diverticulosis which likely is linked to the irritable bowel.

NOW this is starting to sound like a dog enthusiast discussion (it doesn't bother me to discuss my dog's poop but I don't want to discuss Pa's!)

   Yeah that is very troubling.  I hope they can it back up; ((( hugs )))