May 10, 2008 Ship of Thieves...May 2008 Repo Thread...Part 12

[figment52]

The colors on that ones are very pretty.

 

[fourmcds]

My brother pulled through the surgery. We just got home.

It was a long surgery, but where there is life, there is hope. What the doctor found was that a large section of his small intestine was not getting blood flow, and had died. It has been destroyed by infection and loss of blood flow, and had become gangrenous. It was a good thing that they operated when they did.

They cleaned him up inside, and had to bring a portion of the bowel out for a colostomy.

He is by no means out of the woods, is still in ICU, and has many hurdles ahead of him. Both Amy and I believe he looks better now than before he went in.

Thank you to everyone for your kind thoughts, and especially for your prayers. It has been a long and stressful day, and I told Sophia tonight how lucky I am to have her, her brother, and Amy. Her uncle only has us as family. I will say this though, the outpouring of help and concern from his students and colleagues has been nothing short of overwhelming, and a pair of his students came up with us tonight. I told them how much I appreciated them, and that he would need them when he is awake as he has not only a huge physical hurdle, but also an enormous mental hurdle to get over.

He will need all their love and support to know how much he is cared about.

John...that all sounds like very good news! Your explanation of what they found explains so much of what he was going through. I hope you will be pleasantly surprised with how much quicker he responds at this point!

I am sure you have mentioned before, but what grade and what does he teach?

 

[disneylover5]

My brother pulled through the surgery. We just got home.

It was a long surgery, but where there is life, there is hope. What the doctor found was that a large section of his small intestine was not getting blood flow, and had died. It has been destroyed by infection and loss of blood flow, and had become gangrenous. It was a good thing that they operated when they did.

They cleaned him up inside, and had to bring a portion of the bowel out for a colostomy.

He is by no means out of the woods, is still in ICU, and has many hurdles ahead of him. Both Amy and I believe he looks better now than before he went in.

Thank you to everyone for your kind thoughts, and especially for your prayers. It has been a long and stressful day, and I told Sophia tonight how lucky I am to have her, her brother, and Amy. Her uncle only has us as family. I will say this though, the outpouring of help and concern from his students and colleagues has been nothing short of overwhelming, and a pair of his students came up with us tonight. I told them how much I appreciated them, and that he would need them when he is awake as he has not only a huge physical hurdle, but also an enormous mental hurdle to get over.

He will need all their love and support to know how much he is cared about.

Well, John, keep your chin up....I always hated leaving the hospital for fear of the phone ringing. I will continue to pray.

 

[figment52]

John, Manuel and your family is in my thoughts and hopes, .

most definately from here too John

 

[TammyAlphabet]

My brother pulled through the surgery. We just got home.

It was a long surgery, but where there is life, there is hope. What the doctor found was that a large section of his small intestine was not getting blood flow, and had died. It has been destroyed by infection and loss of blood flow, and had become gangrenous. It was a good thing that they operated when they did.

They cleaned him up inside, and had to bring a portion of the bowel out for a colostomy.

He is by no means out of the woods, is still in ICU, and has many hurdles ahead of him. Both Amy and I believe he looks better now than before he went in.

Thank you to everyone for your kind thoughts, and especially for your prayers. It has been a long and stressful day, and I told Sophia tonight how lucky I am to have her, her brother, and Amy. Her uncle only has us as family. I will say this though, the outpouring of help and concern from his students and colleagues has been nothing short of overwhelming, and a pair of his students came up with us tonight. I told them how much I appreciated them, and that he would need them when he is awake as he has not only a huge physical hurdle, but also an enormous mental hurdle to get over.

He will need all their love and support to know how much he is cared about.

We will continue to keep you and yours in our thoughts and prayers.

Tammy

 

[disneylover5]

Has there been a final tally on the brunches?

 

[disneylover5]

yup I agree. Sometimes I feel sad about posting our nonsense stuff when others are in grief or worry. I know no one takes it as an attack, but the older I become the more I feel for those around me that have hard stuff going on.

I'm back from dinner delivery (obviously) and Mary Kate(his wife) and Molly and I had a nice walk around their back yard enjoying the Iris garden Browning cared for. I cried all the way home. I was finding it hard to express to Molly what this man meant to me and why I was upset. I can't place him to her with someone in her life. Different tahn family, but oh so close.

Off soon to scouts, should be interesting there were emails illuding to great changes coming our way....

When I saw this just posted, I was like " WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THEY DOING STARTING A GIRL SCOUT MEETING AT 9:30 AT NIGHT" What are they crazy???????

I totally forgot that the entire world is not on my time zone......

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[lillygator]

John, many prayers for your brother, you and Amy and the rest of the family.
We are thinking of you.

nan, I go through that a lot (posting V'isms when everyone else is suffering)....please know that you all are like my family, I didn't come from a large one and I "talk" to you all every day and can share everything with you guys. I never have the right words, so I don't try, I am sorry for that. Please know that I am praying for all and hope all is well with everyone.

 

[lillygator]

on that note...

 

[katypop]

My brother pulled through the surgery. We just got home.

It was a long surgery, but where there is life, there is hope. What the doctor found was that a large section of his small intestine was not getting blood flow, and had died. It has been destroyed by infection and loss of blood flow, and had become gangrenous. It was a good thing that they operated when they did.

They cleaned him up inside, and had to bring a portion of the bowel out for a colostomy.

He is by no means out of the woods, is still in ICU, and has many hurdles ahead of him. Both Amy and I believe he looks better now than before he went in.

Thank you to everyone for your kind thoughts, and especially for your prayers. It has been a long and stressful day, and I told Sophia tonight how lucky I am to have her, her brother, and Amy. Her uncle only has us as family. I will say this though, the outpouring of help and concern from his students and colleagues has been nothing short of overwhelming, and a pair of his students came up with us tonight. I told them how much I appreciated them, and that he would need them when he is awake as he has not only a huge physical hurdle, but also an enormous mental hurdle to get over.

He will need all their love and support to know how much he is cared about.

John, Amy and Sophia Continuing to send prayers
Kathe

 

[lillygator]

 

[Jhalkias]

John...that all sounds like very good news! Your explanation of what they found explains so much of what he was going through. I hope you will be pleasantly surprised with how much quicker he responds at this point!

I am sure you have mentioned before, but what grade and what does he teach?

Manuel is an English teacher, who is also the Speech coach for the High School. He has taught all four grades in High School. When he was on the regular floor in the hospital, I had to tell him to quit using the Queen's English, because he was cracking me up.

A brief diverting story . . .

When he was recovering from the first surgery, he was dying for water, and could not talk very well either. When he was finally allowed to have a drink, it dribbled down his chin. He started saying over and over . . . "The Solution . . . The Solution . . . The Solution . . ." dummy me said "The solution of water?" He finally spits out, "The Solution would be a straw."

Well, John, keep your chin up....I always hated leaving the hospital for fear of the phone ringing. I will continue to pray.

Oh, how I hate having that phone by my bedside.

 

[disneylover5]

I was so glad to have Daniel home today. He said when he was getting ready to leave Blacksburg yesterday afternoon, there were police everywhere...

He got to see Gretchen in Alice in Wonderland. She sang a solo....very very cute. (I did get her costume finished).

There were vigils all around tonight.....but I was at Gretchen's play. She had 4 performances. 2 yesterday and 2 today.

 

[lillygator]

 

[lillygator]

and yes as much as it pains my pocketbook and several cards, we did renew our tickets.

 

[CSNYDER]

anyone have any thoughts on this;
Canon ZR950 1.07MP MiniDV Camcorder with 48x Optical Zoom
Other products by Canon

I have been using ZR70 (an earlier model) for over 5 years now. It's been to Peru, China and a Disney Cruise with us, as well as recording family moments and a lot of recording of martial arts at the dojo where I train. I just pulled 1.5 hours of video off of it from a Brown Belt test. It's worked great over all of that time. It's compact and quite rugged. BTW, the optical zooms are so-so. To see a sample of video from it, go to http://home.earthlink.net/~cpsnyder/peru_photos.htm and click on the Video link. This was filmed without a tripod and includes some zooms all the way in.

 

[disneylover5]

I just love pictures!!! So cute!!!

 

[lillygator]

Go Tribe!

 

[lillygator]

I have been using ZR70 (an earlier model) for over 5 years now. It's been to Peru, China and a Disney Cruise with us, as well as recording family moments and a lot of recording of martial arts at the dojo where I train. I just pulled 1.5 hours of video off of it from a Brown Belt test. It's worked great over all of that time. It's compact and quite rugged. BTW, the optical zooms are so-so. To see a sample of video from it, go to http://home.earthlink.net/~cpsnyder/peru_photos.htm and click on the Video link. This was filmed without a tripod and includes some zooms all the way in.

what I can't figure out - does it come with everything I need? do I need to buy anything else?

 

[disneylover5]

and yes as much as it pains my pocketbook and several cards, we did renew our tickets.

This would be a much cuter picture if that were a VA Tech Hokie in the backround.