I am happy that your sis is going home. :cartwheel::cartwheel::cartwheel:
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Sis has been cracking jokes about terminal cancer, death, and dying since she was diagnosed.
I keep a smile plastered on my face & cry when she isn't there. Humor is helpful release for her & everyone.
Gruesome med jokes/stories have been in the family since bro was in med school like most families with med professionals. They just never say them when patients can possibly hear them, as that is extremely unprofessional. It could also rightly get you canned at most hospitals.
I keep a smile plastered on my face & cry when she isn't there. Humor is helpful release for her & everyone.
Gruesome med jokes/stories have been in the family since bro was in med school like most families with med professionals. They just never say them when patients can possibly hear them, as that is extremely unprofessional. It could also rightly get you canned at most hospitals.
That's a great update, ennui!! Glad to hear your sister is feeling better enough to joke.
I think, after all she's put you guys through with her "independence" throughout this, her being pants-less is pretty funny.
I think, after all she's put you guys through with her "independence" throughout this, her being pants-less is pretty funny.
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They are settled back in at the condo.
Only snag now is she & the surgeon decided this afternoon that she didn't need to drive back to Boston tomorrow, but on Friday. Naturally the weatherfolk are predicting a foot or more on Friday :gah:. She will reschedule but it means being inundated & uncomfortable with fluid for an extra day or two.
The pants story is even funnier compared to the fact that dad went AMA & AWOL, escaping from the same hospital while suffering pump-head [result of being on the heart-lung bypass machine during open heart surgery] delusions 3 days post-op after his 1st bypass years ago. He kept walking out of his room, riding the elevators down and trying to leave through the main lobby. Hospital security would find him & bring him back up. He was wearing a very expensive wireless ekg monitor, slippers & a johnny. He wanted to go home, was afraid of the cardio conversion they planned to stop & restart his heart to shock him back to normal heart rhythm from the afib he was current in.
He even called his lawyer, saying the hospital was going to kill him.
He made several attempted escapes, hospital security found him each time that night. He then spent the night pacing the floor in his pod. The next morning he took the connecting passage from the Brigham through to Boston Children's Hospital. Then walked right out through their lobby, down a block and hailed a cab. He was wearing just slippers, sweatpants, the wireless EKG monitor, and a johnny that was open in the front. The cabbie thought dad had been in a knife fight because of the huge visible scar that ran all down the center of his chest. LOL. He had no money, no wallet. Mom & the cops had scoured the entire hospital looking for him, called me to head to the house in case he showed up. Even the Boston cops were searching the neighborhood around the hospital. I was there to greet him when he showed up at home over an hour later, luckily I had the cash on me to pay the cabbie. $65 plus tip. Dad was exhausted & sweaty, walked right in past me, asked me to pay the cabbie and promptly fell asleep in bed. They said he was their first successful escapee ever. He outsmarted them by using the Children's hosp escape route.
I had to take him back in the next day so they could remove the IV access & the eKg equipment.
When he needed a 2nd bypass 11 yrs later, they kept a PCA/babysitter in his room 24/7 so he couldn't bolt again. LOL.
Because he had spent the night walking circles around the floor planning his escape, he actually got his heart back into a normal rhythm on its own. No cardio vert needed.
Bro was so relieved dad hadn't pulled the stunt at his hospital, it was THE talk of the Brigham for a very long time. A few days later he didn't even remember how nutty he was, no memory at all of the pump-head crazy.
Only snag now is she & the surgeon decided this afternoon that she didn't need to drive back to Boston tomorrow, but on Friday. Naturally the weatherfolk are predicting a foot or more on Friday :gah:. She will reschedule but it means being inundated & uncomfortable with fluid for an extra day or two.
The pants story is even funnier compared to the fact that dad went AMA & AWOL, escaping from the same hospital while suffering pump-head [result of being on the heart-lung bypass machine during open heart surgery] delusions 3 days post-op after his 1st bypass years ago. He kept walking out of his room, riding the elevators down and trying to leave through the main lobby. Hospital security would find him & bring him back up. He was wearing a very expensive wireless ekg monitor, slippers & a johnny. He wanted to go home, was afraid of the cardio conversion they planned to stop & restart his heart to shock him back to normal heart rhythm from the afib he was current in.
He even called his lawyer, saying the hospital was going to kill him.
He made several attempted escapes, hospital security found him each time that night. He then spent the night pacing the floor in his pod. The next morning he took the connecting passage from the Brigham through to Boston Children's Hospital. Then walked right out through their lobby, down a block and hailed a cab. He was wearing just slippers, sweatpants, the wireless EKG monitor, and a johnny that was open in the front. The cabbie thought dad had been in a knife fight because of the huge visible scar that ran all down the center of his chest. LOL. He had no money, no wallet. Mom & the cops had scoured the entire hospital looking for him, called me to head to the house in case he showed up. Even the Boston cops were searching the neighborhood around the hospital. I was there to greet him when he showed up at home over an hour later, luckily I had the cash on me to pay the cabbie. $65 plus tip. Dad was exhausted & sweaty, walked right in past me, asked me to pay the cabbie and promptly fell asleep in bed. They said he was their first successful escapee ever. He outsmarted them by using the Children's hosp escape route.
I had to take him back in the next day so they could remove the IV access & the eKg equipment.
When he needed a 2nd bypass 11 yrs later, they kept a PCA/babysitter in his room 24/7 so he couldn't bolt again. LOL.
Because he had spent the night walking circles around the floor planning his escape, he actually got his heart back into a normal rhythm on its own. No cardio vert needed.
Bro was so relieved dad hadn't pulled the stunt at his hospital, it was THE talk of the Brigham for a very long time. A few days later he didn't even remember how nutty he was, no memory at all of the pump-head crazy.
