Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jun 19 - 12:23 PM

Severn has had a rough time of it,
this calendar year.
Something about a pacemaker I think.
Thinking of you, Severn.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 19 - 05:40 PM

And LilyFestre reports
that her husband was discharged from hospital,
continues treatment as outpatient.
They hope it won't come back.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 04:44 AM

Dean, I'm delighted to read that it turned out not to be GCA. Your ophthalmologist certainly should be able to give you the extra reassurance you need.
                                                    Good Health,
                                                                         Nigel.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 04:13 PM

Whew: results back, no terrorist cells at all, inflammation went right down with treatment. Just have a seam on my temple to salve for a few days. Have rescheduled a routine appointment with my regular optho that I would have had while entangled in this, so will have that for assurance.
                      Dean

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 03:00 PM

Froggy,
what you and Nigel Paterson describe
would frighten the life out of me.

Have courage.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 03:40 AM

Dean, I'm very pleased to read that you are receiving the appropriate treatment promptly. Early, aggressive intervention with steroids is key to getting control of GCA. Ask about ultrasound, arterial scanning, an approach developed by Prof. Dasgupta.
                Every good wish,
                                           Nigel.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Jun 19 - 04:14 PM

Nigel: Bingo; I just asked for a catch-up on the terminology jumble. I’m actually getting the steroid regimen for giant cell while they wait for biop results to ascertain. Appreciate your input!   Dean

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 11 Jun 19 - 12:52 PM

Dean, you need to get checked for Giant Cell Arteritis, GCA for short. Along with the temporal arterial biopsy, ultrasound arterial scanning is increasingly relied upon. Check out the work of Prof. B. Dasgupta. He is the world authority. If GCA is diagnosed, please do all you can to get the steroid treatment started asap. I've been down this rocky road myself & your post has a familiar ring to it. Time is of the essence.
                                                                  Every good wish,
                                                                                             Nigel.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Jun 19 - 10:54 PM

Just retourned home on thé 8th from a very enjoyable 14 day group tour all over Western Europe. Sat down for a bit to catch up on computer. Suddenly very tender around one eye; looked in the mirror and it looked about like a chicken about to hatch. Local ER sent me a few miles to one with more relevant docs. Multiple consultations. just had a biopsy of the temporal artery. Have had some intervenous steroids which have calmed things down, but they all agree they needed to check for an inflammatory condition which might call for aggressive treatment to keep my vision safe. I’m not panicking, but I’m concerned.
                Dean

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jun 19 - 12:37 PM

LilyFestre's husband
released, went home,
then hospitalized a second time.

Thinking of her and her loved ones.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 May 19 - 03:00 PM

Thinking of LilyFestre
with her husband in hospital.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 May 19 - 06:00 PM

Imperious Rex Rap!
hasn't it been, like
ten days or more since the stress test?
What HAPPENED ??

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 May 19 - 06:46 PM

This is one time when it is happier [Donuel]
to be wrong than to be right.

Rapparee, I hope that the stress
of waiting for the results of your stress tests
will be relieved soon.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 19 - 05:28 PM

Congratulations to Donuel and family.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 19 - 08:13 PM

The mysterious trials and tribultions of Dean have been resolved. The answer was staring us in the face with his face the whole time and lies in the deepest recesses of the endocrine system.

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I was wrong. YAY!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 19 - 02:34 PM

Billybob/Wendy has been absent from the Mudcat for a month or two now.
Last heard from, she was helping her daughter
get through chemo for Crohn's disease …
hope she and her loved ones are holding their own.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 19 - 08:01 PM

Rap I hope that your experience will merely teach you what a heart attack does not feel like. You are already atypical. Being attacked by your heart would be such a betrayal. 127 ain't bad.

Frogprince, some pithy old sayings are none the less true like "it takes a year". In a wierd way I think its good you knew a friend worth suffering for.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Apr 19 - 07:24 PM

& enjoy the thought of travelling, then the trip

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Apr 19 - 05:05 PM

I'm glad to read that you are healing. It takes time as you know. I think having a routine helps. Keep at it!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Apr 19 - 02:08 PM

Good of you to check in, frogprince.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Apr 19 - 10:22 PM

I've been hiding in the shadows on the deck for too long. I've continued to listen in on the rest of the crew, and you are in my thoughts. I think I can say that I'm healing okay, though I'm sure I haven't shed my last tear. I have a regular weekday morning routine of walking and a little workout at the city "community center" (primarily a rec center) followed by coffee with others on the same schedule. Judy initiated that while she still had the capacity, for which I'm thankful now. I put in some desk shifts at the local art gallery, as required if you have work in our local art association's section of the gallery; I usually have at least some photography up.Just now bracing myself to sign up for a 6 or 7 country look around Europe.
                Dean

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 28 Apr 19 - 09:13 PM

I hope so, too, Rapparee, and I hope they are good!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 19 - 09:01 PM

I do hope that the results of the stress test are available soon.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Apr 19 - 06:16 PM

Gnu, Gnu, thinking of you

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Apr 19 - 05:45 PM

Thinking of LilyFestre and her loved ones.

Not forgetting Wendy at billybob, and her loved ones.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Apr 19 - 09:40 AM

During the Manhattan Project two scientists were working on a circular radio wave -- a long shot, but nobody knew what would be needed to make an atom bomb.

One day, the younger exclaimed, "I have it! I've diagrammed a circular radio wave!" and thrust his paper at the elder scientist.

The old man said, "You young fool! This is nothing! A naught!" and he rolled the paper into a thin tube and thrust it into a pencil sharpener, the shards falling to the floor.

Immediately they were surrounded by a large group of very angry janitors complaining about the mess.

Then a huge explosion happened and a mushroom cloud rose into the air.

And that's what happens every time you get a critical mass at ground zero.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Apr 19 - 08:53 PM

I'll bet you look forward to the end of those 3 days! When your body will only contain normal stuff again!
127 when the goal is 124 doesn't sound so bad to me, but what do I know?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Apr 19 - 09:57 PM

When do they contact you, Rap, with the test results?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Apr 19 - 09:01 PM

So does being a Type II diabetic and going without food or drink for 10 hours. My heart rate went to 127 on the treadmill, the target was 124. Then they injected me with Technetium and a robot camera peaked into me. A break, then back to the robot camera again. I must say that I'm glad I have Medicare AND insurance.

I was told that the Technetium leaves the body in 3 days so I'm unlikely to achieve critical mass and explode as an atom bomb. Nor will I become a mutant who can tear down a city and shoot laser beams at other, annoying, drivers from my eyes. Both of these are probably good, but I would kinda like the laser beam thing.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Apr 19 - 10:30 PM

Delays add stress!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Apr 19 - 08:59 PM

Now it's put back to 11:30 a.m.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Apr 19 - 08:21 PM

Rap, I'd get stressed if I had to look forward to a stress test. I hope it goes well.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 19 - 02:45 PM

Rap,
I remember your posts about examinations of your heart,
and infarct ... thinking of you.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 19 - 09:24 PM

I was taken by ambulance to the hospital this morning. Chest pains. Nitroglycerin, aspirin, EKGs, etc. Nothing untoward found, but I have another stress test at 8 a.m. Friday. The diagnosis was "Atypical chest pain."

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 19 - 05:51 PM

Hang in there, LilyFestre.
Worrying situation
and at least one of your fellow Mudcatters
is worrying right along with you.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Apr 19 - 01:46 PM

Somebody is going to smack me up
for posting LilyFestre's news here,
since the news appears on a different thread.
Too bad.

It's a big deal for her to have her husband Pete in hospital.
He was there for her throughout her previous illness and recovery.

She is even spending nights at Pete's bedside,
working on charts for her work while he sleeps.
They have a child and a farm,
however she doesn't want to be away from him.

Keep LilyFestre and her family in your thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Apr 19 - 11:55 AM

LilyFestre's husband Pete is in hospital.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Apr 19 - 08:28 PM

best wishes, gnu

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Apr 19 - 11:28 AM

Have a thought for Mudcatter Gnu
during Palm Sunday and Holy Week,
as a family commitment
has him walking
a Via Dolorosa of his own.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Mar 19 - 01:11 PM

Rapparee's post, sharing that
his forehead was opened up
but no brains fell out,
has me thinking, for no obvious reason,
of H. P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu.

Sorry.

Back to your original programming ...

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 27 Mar 19 - 12:29 PM

Kind words from kind people...Thank you. Not always the norm on MC, but always the norm in this small corner of MC. Sail on, dear friends.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 09:21 PM

So, brains and ridge stay in? Sounds good to me!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 08:29 PM

The stitches came out of my forehead this morning and no brains fell out! The doctor says that I had a "calcified hematoma" that had to be pretty old because it had formed a little ridge of bone on one side. The ridge stays, as it would need to be chiseled out and we agreed that it wasn't worth doing.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Mar 19 - 07:17 PM

Wendy, thinking of you and your loved ones.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 11:36 AM

Blessings on Nigel and Ann, and above all-- blessings on Jane.

Love,

~Susan

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 03:55 AM

I'll third that!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 08:38 PM

Yes,this is a special ship. Thank you again for creating it, Nigel, and hugs to you and Ann on this special, but sad, day. Always hang on to the good times you shared with your daughter.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 06:59 PM

Sending love to you Nigel and Ann ,on Jane's anniversary.
Jane's Rainbow has brought so many people together, a special place of peace and calm.
It has joined so many people together who have never met in person but have shared sadness, sometimes joy, a place to share unspoken worries, deep despair,words of wisdom, but most of all friendship.
Bless you Nigel and Ann, we share your sadness today but thank you for sharing Jane with us and creating Jane's Rainbow. A very special ship

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 23 Mar 19 - 03:39 AM

Today, 23rd March is 'Jane's Day'.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Mar 19 - 05:32 PM

Happy birthday, ranger1!