[TheForge] boo whoo? You Whoo!

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

It's a shame that everybody you work with ,plus your wife, hates 
you so Jerry. My condolences for that.....pf

Jerry Frost wrote:
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> 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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