Created on Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:42 pm with 11 blog posts
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Less than a week ago, I nearly died from pneumonia.
Whether I was clinically near death or not is unimportant: what counts is that within a time span of 48 hours, my lungs almost completely filled with fluid & I became unable to breathe, at all and had to be rushed to the ER, put on constant oxygen and pumped full of hardcore antibiotics for 3 days.
That's close enough to dying for me, thank you.
I'm still on that antibiotic, a couple of inhaler-type meds and I'm also taking Zoloft now, in an attempt to control the overwhelming depression & panic attacks that I've been experiencing during the past few months.
Too early to tell if it'll help.
We shall see...
I'm feeling much better, but am still weak and susceptible to a relapse.
According to the docs & nurses at the hospital, I'll be weak for a good while.
Damn... I wanted a vacation, but not this way. He got home 2 days ago and although he looks & feels pretty rough, he's healing up amazingly well. Neelix has always been a fast healer, anyway.
The docs had to break one of his ribs in order to implant one of the devices near his heart. (He wound up having 6 heart-related devices implanted into him.) At one point, he had several tubes coming out of him, including a drainage tube in his left side, a catheter and an epidural. He's got staples holding the incision under his left breast together and stitches over his heart.
All things considered, he's handling recovery really well, and I'm so proud of him.
He's using a walker right now, but getting stronger everyday. There are home health care nurses coming by twice a week right now (their job, thus far, has only been to take vitals & instruct), and I'm helping to clean his incisions, bathe him, fetch & carry things for him and so forth.
He was only in the hospital for a little more than 4 days and was up & walking around less than 2 days after his surgery.
As of right now, the rib is what hurts the most, and he's practically living off of narcotics, so he's not-all-there, mentally.
His breathing is easing up more everyday, and his range of motion in his left arm has improved quite a bit. He can't drive for at least 3 weeks, though, and that bothers the hell out of him.
We're having to ask anybody we can to get a ride to the store, run errands, pay bills, etc.
And with an extremely fixed & limited income, we're truly depending on the generosity of others.
But Neelix is OK... 
And to me, that's all that matters. ... if we could actually delete a post in these "blog" deals.
Blog... sounds like something located near a swamp. 
There's an absolutely brilliant little freeware program out there called Cathy that I simply cannot live without.
Description of Cathy:
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An extremly small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool. You can use it to index files stored on removable media (CD's, DVD's or even diskettes), hard disks or net drives, and create searchable catalogs that can be used without having access to original media.
Searching capabilities are based on file name, date and size.
Additional features include: filtering options, search duplicates or singles, customizable date format, etc.
Found files can be opened (executed) or deleted directly, if they are present.
Drag & drop support.
Directory trees, MP3 album/song lists can be printed, disk space usage can be investigated.
Single file executable, no install needed. |
Trust me - if you give Cathy a chance, you'll find it indispensable!
(It makes the task of finding files stored on burned CD's or DVD's much less time-consuming.)
http://www.mtg.sk/rva/
Mr. Vašíček also has several other freeware programs he's written available for download.
Give 'em a try! ... of maids, butlers, service personnel, carpenters, electricians, and other assorted handy-type people to do all the crap that needs doing in/for/with this house.
It would actually be a helluva lot cheaper to just tear it down & build another one, as opposed to bringing it up to code & modern safety standards.
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