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2010-06-05, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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A serious request for my wife, please.
Hey gang,
I'm not the newest person to the threads, but I was hoping to ask for kind thoughts and prayers this coming week. My wife has to have major hip surgery -- a resection arthroplasty -- which means that the surgeon will be taking out the artificial hip joint she has had for about 10 years and putting nothing back in. Susan's pelvis is too fragile for another rebuild, so they have no choice but to leave her with half a right femur. She will have nothing in her pelvis on the right side after this, and MAY be confined to a wheelchair for a long time. We're going for a walker after long hours of therapy. That is for the future though. Susan has had four hip replacements, and the last one included a substantial amount of cadaver bone installed in the pelvis. Well, the pelvis has just deteriorated, and here we are.
Before anyone talks about second opinions and such, please understand that the surgeon we're seeing is the chief of orthopedic surgery at Stanford University, pretty much the go-to guy for any sort of specialized surgery in the west half of the USA, and one of the leading experts on hip recovery surgeries in the world (his name is Dr. Stuart Goodman if you're curious).
Anyhow, pray for us if that's your thing, think kind thoughts, sacrifice a goat, whatever you're willing to do to make our karma more positive in this. We leave our town for Stanford on Tuesday, June 8, and Susan checks in on Wednesday June 9.
Thank you.Saknussem DeLaCroix
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2010-06-05, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2006
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Good luck to you both!
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2010-06-05, 03:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the both of you.
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2010-06-05, 03:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Better of luck and well-wishing and a rapid recovery your way.
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2010-06-05, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
It's great that she'll be able to get the best medical attention available. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
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2010-06-05, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2007
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
If it wasn't such a bad form, I would wish you luck the same way actors do to each other when they're about to hit the stage.
But since it's such a serious matter, I'll just have to be content with wishing you the best of luck!
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2010-06-05, 03:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-06-05, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
I offer my hopes and prayers for a best chance for you and your wife.
Peace and long life.
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2010-06-05, 04:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Good luck!
I hope all goes well.
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2010-06-05, 04:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
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2010-06-05, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2008
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Luck to both of you.
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2010-06-05, 05:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Good luck! I'm sure the surgery will go well! I'll be praying for ya'll.
So if they're taking out half her femur, how will she be able to walk with a walker, if you don't mind my asking?Anemoia: Nostalgia for a time you've never known.
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2010-06-05, 06:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
The surgeon seems pretty sure that scar tissue will fill in the space in the pelvis and Susan already has strong legs, so she'll have seriously tight muscles there. The doc seems pretty sure about it. We're being more conservative and hoping, but being more realistic and thinking wheelchair (at least for a LONG time).
Thank you all, the kind words and thoughts mean more than you know. :) Keep 'em coming.Saknussem DeLaCroix
Dwarf Cleric
"All cruelty springs from weakness"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents
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2010-06-05, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
I wish both of you the best of luck. Hope it all goes well.
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2010-06-05, 07:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-06-05, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Stanford is the best. It's a discerning school and carefully picks its applicants, giving it one of the lowest acceptance rates for undergraduate studies in thew world. The only thing they're more picky about is their faculty. Most likely, they require a 2340/2400 on an SAT, a phD, and 5 major research papers published, minimum, from their janitors. Okay, not really, but you get the point. They only take the best, the brightest, the most innovative, the most passionate. I hope your wife is in able hands.
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2010-06-05, 08:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Good luck, and I hope everything works out for the best.
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2010-06-05, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2006
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Best wishes for you both and may her recovery be speedy and fortuitous.
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2010-06-06, 01:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
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2010-06-06, 02:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
My thoughts are with you, but I recently exhausted my supply of sacrificial chickens so my thoughts are the best I can do. The farm supply store is starting to get suspicious.
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2010-06-06, 05:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
My prayers are always with those facing medical adversity. Though difficult times may be ahead, there is always the hope that there will be a far better outcome than that which is in the past. Thus, from some guy named Bor (Rob), a hearty "BE WELL!"
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2010-06-06, 02:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Thanks everyone; we're both laughing at some of the responses, and feeling better because of all of them.
And no, it isn't Lockhart (heaven forbid!) -- Poppy Pomfrey if ANYONE! One does of Skele-grow and that would be that.Last edited by Saknussem; 2010-06-06 at 02:15 PM.
Saknussem DeLaCroix
Dwarf Cleric
"All cruelty springs from weakness"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents
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2010-06-06, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Stanford is exceptional; if there's any place that could take care of your wife, that would be it. Good luck.
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2010-06-07, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Praying as requested.
Respectfully,
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2010-06-07, 09:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-06-07, 09:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Well wishes and good luck - if you are able, please let us know how it goes. Echoing Pocketa and the Moff, Stanford really is the best at this, especially on the West Coast. Your wife's in good hands.
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2010-06-07, 10:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Sending prayers! May the surgery go well and she heal steadily.
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2010-06-07, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
May she have a safe surgery, a speedy recovery, and a better outcome then both of you could imagine.
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2010-06-09, 01:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A serious request for my wife, please.
Many positive thoughts and well wishes. Here's to an uneventful surgery and a rapid recovery.
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2010-06-09, 01:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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