I think next time I just won’t tell anyone until after the surgery is over. It’s been postponed again.
ETA: No new date yet. No explanation for why. Just an ephemeral “sometime next week” for the transfer over to the hospital where the surgery is to take place.
Originally posted at http://wyldraven.dreamwidth.org/549680.html
Assuming we don’t have something else interfere in the next 3 days (crossing everything, knocking on wood, etc.) the surgery will be Monday morning 8-Feb. This is it folks. If there is ever a time to turn it on, it’s now. Thank you in advance!
Originally posted at http://wyldraven.dreamwidth.org/549419.html
The autism-vaccine lie that won’t die – Salon.com – http://bit.ly/atlmR3
This week, Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s now infamous study linking the MMR vaccine to autism was finally retracted by the prestigious Lancet medical journal. The move came days after medical officials in the United Kingdom found the doctor guilty of multiple ethics violations. For doctors, this is a victory — but a bittersweet one. […]
Somewhat unsurprisingly, this unethical man is now in Texas, and still peddling this long discredited nonsense. I wish I could be surprised by that.
Originally posted at http://wyldraven.dreamwidth.org/549336.html
Yes.
No.
Yes.
To avoid unfriending drama, DW went with “reading page” rather than friend’s page. I subscribe to someone’s journal, or they subscribe to mine. If you look at my LJ profile, I even say
I consider the LJ “Friends” tag as a status of reader subscription. If you want to read what I write, friend me. I may return the favor, and I may not. Whether I do or not means nothing in specific to you.
lasarina is returning to the LTAC tomorrow. That means she is stable enough that they can’t keep her in this hospital. The surgeon has agreed to move forward. Her new surgery date is 8-Feb-2010.
Originally posted at http://wyldraven.dreamwidth.org/549062.html
lasarina was diagnosed with strep in her PICC line. So the plan to change the antibiotics changed with the new data. She’s comfortable enough right now. The surgeon has been really put off by this, so energies toward that would be very welcome.
Originally posted at http://wyldraven.dreamwidth.org/548814.html
lasarina is out of the IMU and into a regular room. She has been changed from IV antibiotics to oral ones. Still hoping to get the surgery done during this admission. Don’t know when we will have another date.
ETA: I seem to have misunderstood the part about antibiotics. They just hung more IV ones. (27-Jan 10:15AM CT)
Originally posted at http://wyldraven.dreamwidth.org/548367.html
Today, my first-born child came out as a transgender woman (on Facebook, as Melody Jade) in Houston on the same day as the vigil. (http://bit.ly/5A0fKw) Jade didn’t know about me.
I had told Laura, who I see fairly regularly, and I did not tell Laura she could not tell Jade. When they were growing up, I was presenting male entirely. Their mother knew I sometimes cross-dressed, and had apparently guessed I might be transgender.
Jade was worried that I would freak out. Instead, I provided resource information to get her started on her transition. I know Houston relatively well, and had been doing research for my own benefit.
Wow.
Yes, I know it isn’t technically morning any more. But if you had been up until almost 3 am, you would be running a bit behind too.
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. OK, slight exaggeration. Still… I woke up at about 6:15 am to a commotion here in lasarina‘s room. They were trying to draw arterial blood, I think. I was pretty drowsy. She had spiked a fever of 101.3, and they needed blood for cultures. Can you guess where this is going?
Yep, more sepsis. PICC line will be removed as soon as they can find a surgeon to place a central line to replace it. Surgery tomorrow? Not with sepsis active. Postponed, again. Her attending says that this time, he is not going to let them send her back to Kindred between now and whatever new surgical date we get. He’s going to get this cleared up quickly, and get her back on the surgical schedule. I hope he can do just that.
Damn it, we are getting really tired of this.
Originally posted at http://wyldraven.dreamwidth.org/548163.html
