Wren
 

thinking of you today. Are you gonna share that cake? :hug:

Oh, how kind you are. Thank you
I'm making the cake when I get back home. This morning I made myself "fancy" coffee. LOL :p

Cake???? did somebody mention cake????? YUM..............:wink:
{{{HUGS}}}}

:hug: got you in my prayers sweet birdy.

Long, hard day and when we got home at 5:30 I took a nap instead of making a cake :o
Much to my surprise - maybe more than I can manage right now - surgery is Friday - this Friday - Today after meeting with surgeon I went to the lab and all the pre-surgery tests are finished and all systems are Go.

LOL - I expected a long wait. Last time I did this I had a four month wait for surgery.
Now it's four DAYS.
OMG.
Of course I'll manage it. It's just rotten timing. Such lovely weather and husband has to spend it driving me around :(

I woke up thinking about you Wren....thanks for letting us know. I'm a terrible waiter....so I'm happy that you only have a short time until it's behind you.
And hubby will just have to enjoy being your chauffer...you are worth it, good company and the great outdoors will still be there. :hug:

Now, about the cake...................*grin

Still waiting for cake. :D do you have a lot of pretesting today? :hug:

Ahhhhhhhh we talk together :D I did all the pretesting Monday. Someone called yesterday and left a message saying is was all fine except one test they will repeat tomorrow morning while I'm being prepped :eek:
While that horrible stat????? thing is being screwed into my skull. It's a giant open frame thing. It's the thing that holds my head steady so they can move me into the open MRI while doing surgery -- IF I understand things - LOL - Me, understand anything?
Yeah, sure, you betcha.

:D we are here at the same time! You aren't awake for all this...right? Any idea how long it will take? How long you'll be in the hospital?

Sending you lots of positive thoughts and of course you are in my prayers. :hug:

Last time they did surgery on Tuesday morning and sent me home on Thursday morning. This for brain surgery going in all the way to the center and right to the brain stem.

Of course they worry very much about infection and want people OUT.

The nurse that talked to me about "stuff" said her surgeon has that frame installed while people were still awake. Last time mine was installed while I was asleep. Who knows?

Thank you for prayers.

(((Wren))) I'll be thinking of you as well. Doesn't sound like very much fun. Especially for an elderly lady like you. :D :winky: :hug:

I think I'd ask for the "thing" to be installed while I was asleep thank you very much.

You are a brave courageous fighter.
I wish you a painfree recovery :hug:

Wren, all the best to your for this proceedure. You're braver than I am. Just reading about it puts me on edge. I think if I was having this done tomorrow I'd be feeling attempting to run away right about now.

Will be thinking of you. All the very best!

Sending extra hugs and prayers today wren. :grouphug:

Woke up with you on my mind dear friend. I hope that each day of your recovery gets a little easier and your strength will return. Warm hugs...we all love you around here. :grouphug:

Thanks again, Alffe. Physically I'm doing quite well, so much better than last time. The surgery was so much more difficult and the outcome so much easier ???
Here at home things are already 85% the same. I just get tired too quickly.

Husband is still furious that he had to use all that gorgeous weather and spend so much time driving to and from the city. The surgery was supposed to be fairly fast (for brain surgery) and simple but mine ended up complicated and scary so at 6 PM he was still sitting in the hospital, furious, waiting to be allowed to go home. My fault..... bad brain, huh?

As soon as they got this chest attached to that nasty machine and my head wired to an EEG he could head for home. But he had to return - why, he said, when he couldn't do anything, every day. He had to drive that far, say hello and drive back home.

Then I come home and I'm to tired to even cut a watermelon for him.

Oh my heart just bleeds for him...having to wait all that time, drive that far, go without watermelon.....is his arm broken? :mad:

Well the important thing in this equation is you! And how well you are doing inspite of how long it took. Please do not have expectations of feeling full of energy this soon....I had to nap for hrs. every afternoon and all I got was a new nose...it took months before I felt like my old self.

Brain surgery is VERY serious stuff (like I need to tell you that...:rolleyes: ) so please ignore your old fool and be kind to yourself. :hug:

I'm already ready to kick your husband to the curve. :mad:

I had a d*ckhead like that once. Was in the hospital when my baby was only 1, for a month and wasn't expected to live. Got down to 86 lbs. I finally asked that they bar him from my room because he would come and ***** at me about things like....oh, a $9.67 long distance phone bill, or...the babysitter my daughter was staying with wasn't good enough, or... well he!!, he even asked why I was in the hospital, I should go home. Hello? See the tubes in my nose and throat and iv's everywhere you ****?

Okay, I'm getting all revved up so let's forget about the **** in your home.

Like Alffe said, it's about you and recovering the best you can. Seems to me someone should be taking care of YOU! :hug:

i don't think it is allowed for me to post what I would have done with that watermelon. :D

here is some fun reading for you wren..or everyone. the thread is called Empathy Man. it's on the MS forum. oh...go potty before you start to read it. :p

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ewpost&t=20623

LOL! Curious you are soooooooo bad! *whisper....I like that in a person.

Wren

I keep reading your post and shaking my head. He's your husband, and I know you love him and all that stuff - but dayummm! Has he ever heard the phrase "Step up and be a man?"

Sorry to hear your husband isn't more supportive. If you want, I'll send my husband over to teach your husband how to cut up his own darned watermelon. :mad: While he's there, he can give him a few tips on how to be a real husband.

Thank you, kind people. I'm trying

I don't want you to miss this wren....:hug:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

That is beautiful!
did you notice the similarity in all of their eyes???

Thank you Alffe .... thank you again.

There is a similarity in their eyes Abbie..I hadn't noticed it before.

Wren I'm sorry I haven't been very active around here...have some kind of sinus thing and am coughing my head off. I've also started journeling...something I've heard others recommend when you're trying to make sense of your life.

I may have to burn the dang thing cause my thots skeer me! :o

Hi Wren,
Yes, I too come here looking at least 10-15 times a day. I don't know why.... I guess I find it comforting to see what others are talking about even if it has absolutely nothing to do with me.

HUGS:hug: I hope you are feeling better.


abbie