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Thursday, June 30, 2005
She's Home!
Some of you already know the good news.
Now all of you can know it together.
My hospitalized bit o' honey, whose travails showed up so many times in my recent messages, is home! SHE! IS!! HOME!!!
A week ago already, Joanne was discharged from Kaiser Hospital in Oakland -- where she'd been confined for 6 weeks and 2 days with pneumonia, diabetes, anemia, and a hole in her lung where they'd dug out a biopsy sample. Ouch!
It was the latter that kept her under house arrest for so long.
I won't bore you with all the details. But, in short, the steroids that attacked the pneumonia also inhibited the healing of that #*@%! wound. So she lived with a chest tube in place for a month, waiting out the days (and long nights) until her lung could do its thing unaided.
Once the tube was gone, whammo -- she bounced out of there a week ago today!
Every day back on her own turf she gets a little stronger, looks more like her real self. More color, brighter eyes, bigger smile. Yesterday she got her hair done. Last night we went out for dinner. Two good signs we're really on the way to recovery.
She'll continue the steroids and other meds a few more weeks, then consult again with the pulmonary doctor who admitted her in the first place. We're hoping for the best.
I'm drawing a blank on a zippy closing line.
Let's try "Thank you!" To each of you who watched and prayed and encouraged us in a million ways. And to God who does all things well.
Amen and hallelujah.
posted by Jack Buckley at
10:58 AM
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