And now what did you do TODAY?

[skullguise]

Best wishes to you both, hope your mom improves quickly and fully!

[jpelg]

^This!

[Voltron]

More of that^. Best of luck Knucks!

[swt61]

Indeed.

[guzziguy]

21 hours ago, skullguise said:

Best wishes to you both, hope your mom improves quickly and fully!

More of this.

[blessingx]

Went to the Battle of the Bulge 60th anniversary exhibit at the [next to NASA Ames] Moffett Field Museum. 

That tree stump doesn’t stand a chance. 

Edited Sunday at 12:44 PM by blessingx

[Knuckledragger]

I swear I don't just log in here to report medical mishaps.  Yesterday was a banner day by anyone's standards.  MV is an expensive place to live.  There's few doctors on the island because full time general practitioners cannot afford to live here.  Mum doesn't have a doctor and neither do I.  She had a followup phone call yesterday from a nurse practitioner.  When mum went to the ER on Christmas day because of covid, they detected what they thought was a heart murmur.  Mum didn't see fit to mention that to me until yesterday, but that's another matter.  The fallout of all of this was that I had to drive her to the hospital yesterday afternoon.  After many hours there, they determined that she has Lyme disease from a tick bite this past summer.  That is a recurring theme here on MV.  I am cursed to spend my whole life in places that are hotbeds for tick borne diseases.  Still, much better news than actual cardio problems.

With that in mind, I've mentioned the Dreyer family here on MV before.  They're a nice couple in their 80s.  Peter is a photographer, who shot 4x5" for decades.  Adele is a piano teacher with a Steinway.  They're both in as good health as any member of the silent generation.  They have a daughter named Gwen.  She's my age and in far better shape than I am.  Yesterday she was giving blood and fainted.  The staff could not revive her and she ended up in the ER.  A blood test revealed high levels of troponin.  TIL (or more to the point, YIL)  troponin is a protein found in heart muscles and a high percentage of it is in the blood stream, that most likely means a heart attack.  I repeat, Gwen is a healthy woman in her early 50s. 

The MV hospital doesn't have the necessary equipment to perform the required heart tests, so they doctors ordered Gwen be sent to MGH in Boston.  There were no beds there, so she had to be sent to Mass General Brigham.  She was to travel there by helicopter, which arrived sometime after 1AM.  At 3AM, the helicopter had to make an emergency landing because of instrument failure(!)  It wasn't until 6AM that there was another one available (as of yet I have no idea where the copter touched down) so Gwen spent a number of hours in the early morning (and COLD) waiting.  I still have not heard what the tests performed at MGB revealed.  I did learn that one of her cats has been keeping vigil on Gwen's bed during her absence.

It's been quite a 24 hours.