[TheForge] boo whoo? You Whoo!

[Dan Tull]

Jerry,
Private email bounced.
Let me in.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <frosty at customcpu.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] boo whoo? You Whoo!


> 
> From: "John Husvar" <jhusvar at sbcglobal.net>
> 
> 
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>> If anybody on the list has a reason to cry, it's you. 
>> That's whoo! :)
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> 
> 
> I appreciate the licence to whine John but I beg to 
> differ.
> 
>>From the moment I stumbled out around the front of the 
> truck I've been discovering just how much people care. 
> I didn't know how bad I looked, two of the guys who 
> were leaving and coming back were puking. My left 
> humurus was not just broken, hanging at an odd angle, 
> it had a curve in it about the radius of a grapefruit 
> and was bleeding pretty good. They kept coming back, 
> sick to their stomaches or not.
> 
> The EMS guys were very pro, they got me stabalized, 
> loaded and transported quickly and as comfortably as 
> possible in just a few minutes. The EMT who rode in 
> back even had some pretty good jokes to share on the 
> ride, all the time ministering to me non stop. He even 
> stopped in again to say good bye after the paperwork 
> had been signed. He laughed at me when I said something 
> about being out as soon as they set the bone. Like I 
> said, I couldn't see my arm so had no idea. It was a 
> good time for a laugh, morphine doesn't stop pain as 
> much as it makes you not care that you're hurting.
> 
> I wasn't at the hospital more than a few minutes when 
> guys from work started showing up. Okay sure, they were 
> foremen and didn't have anything better to do. <grin> 
> Still, it was good having familiar faces there. When 
> the x-rays were developed the ER doc turned me over to 
> the orthopedic surgeon to tell me how seriously I'd 
> broken my arm and I'd be there for at least two 
> surgeries, one of the foremen took off saying he had to 
> go. He heard the word surgery and immediately left to 
> get Deb and bring her to the hospital, a 100 mile round 
> trip.
> 
> It was good waking up post op with my wife there. She 
> turned into my bulldog advocate once her sense of panic 
> subsided a bit. I was less than impressed with the day 
> to day care at the hospital though most of the nurses 
> were good. It seems communications there are set up so 
> bean counters can track every tissue but simple 
> messages can't pass from shift to shift. Without Deb 
> there it would've been pretty intolerable, she made 
> them move a bed into the room for her. She was with me 
> 24/7 with one lousey 4 hr break for my whole stay. 
> Friends took care of all our critters without complaint 
> though in one gal's case it was a hell of a load in 
> addition to her own.
> 
> 8 days after the fall I underwent the second surgery. 
> An open fracture has a high risk of infection 
> compounded by me being diabetic meant they weren't 
> taking chances on something sneaking in while they 
> pumped me full of IV and oral antibiotics. Then there 
> was the swelling shattering a bone causes. Anyway, the 
> second surgery lasted a good 6 1/2 hrs under a 
> specialist and though I felt like cold moldy crap for 
> almost two days afterwards it was 6 1/2 hrs well done.
> 
> I've been home for a couple weeks now and am healing 
> well. Had my first followup last thursday and am now in 
> an articulated brace instead of a splint and bandages. 
> The nature of the break precluded a cast all together, 
> it would've led to amputation sooner than later.
> 
> So, though I never quite got to the "needing someone to 
> wipe my butt for me" stage It was close, I still need 
> help bathing. Deb's been there when ever I need 
> something though it's running her down bigtime. I'm 
> doing as much as she'll allow to ease the load but she 
> won't allow much. Then there're the guys from work, I 
> got almost daily visits while in the hospital and Deb 
> had them running errands for us. Saturday I found out 
> there was a signup sheet at work for a volunteer work 
> party to come out and get everything squared away for 
> winter. Too many guys have volunteered so they're going 
> to break into more than one crew and come out on 
> different days. The word from the superintendant is to 
> call if we need a ride and they'll send a vehicle, we 
> live 50 miles from work so it's a big bite out of 
> production but we're not to concern ourselves, just 
> call.
> 
> There's a book worth of more kindnesses done for us but 
> I think you get the idea.
> 
> The only tears on my face are those of humble gratitude 
> for the goodness in people's hearts.
> 
> Frosty
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