Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, thank you for keeping LUGgers informed of my wife's accident and thanks to all of you for your good wishes and flower pictures. I must spend the day today seeing to the rental of a medical bed, a wheelchair, a walker, and other such "durable medical goods" that we will need for her convalescence. The layout of this house is such that she will need to sleep in the living room while she requires the motorized bed. I've had family hospitalized before, but this experience was the worst because I was completely cut off from her. The hospital would not let me in the door, and was not able to provide me with any information about her status. No telephone contact, no email, no text messages. Her surgery was re-scheduled 3 times, but I was never notified. Brutal. I eventually found the location inside the hospital's online patient-tracking system in which the doctors filed their notes, and was able to follow what was happening by reading those notes. It takes a certain amount of determination to read the notes of an orthopedic surgeon documenting the use of drills and saws and hammers on your unconscious spouse. My favorite entry from the surgeon's notes was "Instrument, sponge, and needle counts were correct prior to closure and at the conclusion of the case." Nothing accidentally left inside. About 4 hours after the end of the procedure I was able to talk to Victoria on the telephone very briefly, but it was enough to let me sleep.