[meteorite-list] Need to sell some meteorites
From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:12:03 -0500 Message-ID: <c5ofh6t4a3gaf7dehg94b90orspbuffgus_at_4ax.com> I want to thank everyone who has had interest in buying the meteorites and has had concern for my grandmother. Since I vented on the list, I thought I'd give a little update. (Stick around for the end.) Friday night, the 24th, when I had to take her to the hospital, she had suddenly had a major change in her mental clarity-- she had been reasonably lucid before (but with short-term memory issues) but over the course of maybe half an hour that night she dropped away to sentence fragments and gibberish. I thought that she was dying at that very moment. By the time I got her to the hospital, she was fully unresponsive-- still ALIVE, but no reactions to anything-- speech, noises, movement, no flinches when being stuck with needles-- nothing. She remained that way all that night (I stayed in the room) and all the next day-- no movements or speech whatsoever in reaction to anything, even loud clapping in front of her face (except of some groans when being lifted and moved around, which might have been reflexive.) The doctors diagnosed problems-- pneumonia, possibly a kidney infection-- but they gave no indication that they thought she would ever regain conciousness, and what they were advising me on was signing a DNR and possible ways to "keep her comfortable" and not treatments (although the were pumping heavy-duty antibiotics into her.) So I go in this morning, ready to sign the DNR the doctor was scheduled to talk to me about again, and as I came near the room I saw a nurse had positioned her workstation in the doorway to my grandmother's room, and I figured that she was soon to be gone. The nurse and I talked for a couple of minutes, she told me that she was watching because she was worried about her breathing (heavy, somewhat phlegmy) said that he hadn't reacted to anything while I was gone other than a groan when moved, and left. Then I saw that my grandmother had her hand against her face insted of lying down-- and I thought I saw it move. I asked her if she was awake, and she was able to answer me. She knew who she was, who I was, she was able to ask questions and answer them (even if you have to repeat the question to her a couple of times, and if she would ask the same question again 5 minutes later.) She is far from clear headed, and not even as lucid as she was before 2 days ago, but she seems to have improved throughout the day, and before this morning I had absolutely no expectation of her ever being concious again. The same doctor I spoke with yesterday didn't mention the DRN again today and instead was asking me to think about future healthcare (while reminding me that she still is a long way from being out of the woods.) So I don't know how much she will recover or IF she'll recover or if this is a short anomaly, but I don't think that anyone at the hospital expected even this degree of recovery. So I'm not jumping to any conclusions yet, but there is at least the possibility of my not losing my current "job" yet with the immediacy that I was thinking of when I vented last night. (Even so, I still want to sell the meteorites I mentioned.) Received on Sun 26 Dec 2010 08:12:03 PM PST |
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