Back to the hospital

[Recluse]

The post-op infection and complications have reached the point to where the doc is checking me in the emergency room after lunch. More CT scans, labs and probably another surgery.

Will keep you posted.

:coffee:

[theperfessor]

Hang in there buddy.

[Swamp Man]

Hang in there man.

[popper]

Too much BBQ too early? Just kidding. Make sure they get all the infection gone - you don't want to be septic. Best wishes.

[Bo1]

Will be in my prayers...

[Trey45]

Best wishes.

[TheCelt]

Prayin for quick healing and recovery!

[square butte]

Hang in there - Prayers sent for a super speedy recovery.

[472x1B/A]

My get well quickly wishes and prayers are sent to the Ill-Tempered Texan.

[Blacksmith]

That Texas hot sauce probably burned through the stitches. This time tell them to use stainless and you'll be able to confound the TSA "inspectors" every time you fly. Praying this time is quick and easy.

[pthunder1971]

Get well soon.

[P.K.]

C'mon man! Prayers sent.

[**oneshot**]

Quick and speedy recovery

[jmort]

Praying for you brother and your family. May the doctors/nurses/medicine fight the good fight with the ultimate physician Jesus on your side.

[Charlie Two Tracks]

Praying for your complete recovery Recluse. The twists and turns of life are quite amazing. Please keep us posted if you can.

[ultramag]

Hang in there Recluse.....praying for a quick recovery!

[Olevern]

Renewed prayers going up.

[blackthorn]

Prayers, thoughts and best wishes to you from our house!

[runfiverun]

hospitals are the best place to get a staph infection..
it ain't nothin to mess with.
take care.

[Wayne Smith]

Praying to our good God for quick recovery and clear of infection.

[DLCTEX]

Back on my prayer list. Don't make me come over there and straighten you out!

[Freightman]

Prayers sent! hope you find it soon and stomp it down.

[gray wolf]

JD !! You cut this out, we want you to get better very soon.
More Prayers for you my friend.

[Circuit Rider]

Prayers sent for you and your family. CR

[ga41]

Prayers for a brother I've never meet.

[Bill*]

Hope you get well soon!!!

[eljefeoz]

Good wishes and fast recovery.
Best

[smoked turkey]

Also prayers for a complete recovery from what ever this is that has come up again. You are one tough hombre and I know you'll make it, but this is no fun and makes life down right uncomfortable.

[DoubleAdobe]

Nothing but good wishes and a prayer for you, hombre.

[Wal']

Damn Recluse....you cant get a break can you, get well soon.

[TXGunNut]

Hang in there, my friend. Guess I'll make other plans for lunch tomorrow. Will pray for you and the good woman that takes care of you, and your doc's too. Nurses have been thru worse, so don't aggravate them. They can be meaner than a PT with a hangover, suspect you know what I mean.
You can reach me here or on my cell if I can help.

[Goatwhiskers]

Praying for you, man. GW

[dudits]

prayers going out from me and my woman.
is it perotinitus "infection from leaked fluid from appendix, not sure how it is spelled and didnt google"

[TCLouis]

Put a Boolit in there, it will kill the infection.

Ain't that what they say

[MtGun44]

Darn it. Sorry to hear that this is flaring up again.

Best wishes and a prayer to help you beat it.

Get well.

Bill

[Bad Water Bill]

And more sent from A DIRTY OLD MAN.

And one for the poor nurses that have to handle that Ill-Tempered Texan.

Get well as I want to read books 11 and 12.[smilie=1:

[Superfly]

Well Mr Recluse you fooled everybody here but me.



You just want to see the hot Nurses again dontcha ????


Can,t say i blame ya. Hope all goes well and that the stay is not to long.

[sthwestvictoria]

Best wishes Recluse. Here's to hoping you can retreat to your redoubt soon and resume your reclusive activities.

[Goatwhiskers]

Darn, Bill, I didn't even think about the nurses having to put up with him, and for the second time at that! GW

[Recluse]

Thanks for the prayers and well-wishes. Got a crack staff of nurses here, who as y'all know, are like the NCOs of hospitals--they do the heavy lifting and real running of things.

Rough day in the ER yesterday. Spent almost eight hours trying to get stabilized and get the fever down the pain tolerable. I do not like morphine--scares me--but had no choice, or say, in the matter.

Finally got moved to a room and the doc came in around 9:00 and informed me that one part of the "cure" was to starve me, beginning at midnight. That news did not make me happy. Said he'd see me early in the morning and then put me on a regular diet.

By late this morning, I still hadn't seen or heard from the doc and was feeling like absolute obama and called up the charge nurse and informed her that I would, by God, have some pudding or a few small pieces of fruit or whatever because they starved me the last time and I would be damned/pelosi'd if they did it again.

So now I've got a whole tray full of food and puddings and fruit bowls (no chili or bbq, damn it) to snack on.

The doc just came by and said the white blood cell counts were looking favorable and encouraged me to continue getting up and taking my pole and monitor and IV contraptions for walks around the post-op floor.

So that's about the size of things now.

Again, thanks for the well-wishes and prayers. They do work, you know.

:coffee;

[DoubleAdobe]

If determination and sheer hard-headedness has anything to do with these things, (and it does), I'm betting on you Recluse.

[TXGunNut]

Thanks for the update, hope you continue to improve.

[wch]

Prayers sent; good luck!

[P.K.]

Good to hear! See there is an upside to being ill-tempered, even infections shy away after a bit. ;-)

Need another mystery?

[waksupi]

JD is back in the hospital.

[MtGun44]

HA! Taking the pole for a walk. Been there, done that.
Sounds like you are on the rebound, keep fighting.

Bill

[Recluse]

Had a bad night and morning, but around 1:00, the majority of the fever broke. It's still trying to rebound but so far we're fighting it back. I'm able to double the amount of time between the dilaudid doses and for the first time in almost 24 hours, was able to get up, take a shower, then go take my tube-pole for a long walk all over the first floor of the hospital.

The vampire came in just after 1:00 and sucked some blood. What she didn't swallow, she sent to the lab for a white blood cell analysis.

Tipping point will be Monday sometime in the a.m. when I have another CT scan done. If the antibiotics and other chemicals they are bombarding this abscess with are beating it back and reducing it in size, then the treatment will continue. If not, then the radiologists goes in with his big needles and camera and starts literally draining and sucking the abscess out.

:coffee:

[TXGunNut]

Hoping for an IV cure, going in after the bad guys can get messy. Glad you're getting around again, hope tonight goes smoother for you.

[jmort]

More prayers -

[dudits]

more prayers from the midwest. will send a few out tommorow when sending some lead downrange at high speed :)

[Clinebo]

Sending prayers your way.

[patsher]

Prayers for you from Wyoming, too!

[freebullet]

I'm new here and don't know you, but never the less I wish you a complete and speedy recovery.

[scottiemom]

prayers going up!

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Hang in there!

[jcwit]

Keep the Faith in the One Above & the Best of Wishes for your Fast Recovery from Northern Indiana.

[Tazman1602]

Prayer comin' at you ya' grouchy old bugger! Get well soon!

Art

[Superfly]

Hey Are you getting pics of the nurses YOU Know you want to.


You should get one with you chasing the nurses around, It will help i tell you.

Also If you catch a nurse worst thing that can happen is you all laugh and smile and before you know it the whole hospital deal will be over and you will be back in the pilot seat again.

I hope it all goes well for you. Go ahead make the nurses laugh it will be worth it.

Take care and dont slip.

[Bad Water Bill]

Isn't that an expensive way to learn POLE DANCING?:kidding:

[Beau Cassidy]

I hope you get better. It isn't unusual to get an abscess like that after a ruptured appendix.

[Recluse]

Had another tough night and was scheduled for another CT scan in the early a.m. Ended up not happening until 2:15 p.m.

Hospitals are already so messed up now thanks to endless government regulations and requirement, I don't want to even imagine how bad they will be when Obamacare gets locked in 100%.

My abscess did not shrink. It enlarged. I go NPO (nothing by mouth) again after midnight so that the radiologists can go in and physically attack it, spear it, drain what they can and put a tube in my side. Looking at several more days here at minimum. They've upped the pain management program schedule and I'm living on IVs and antibiotics.

:coffee:

[firefly1957]

Renewed prayers for your recovery.

[TheCelt]

Thinkin of ya and praying for ya, hope ya heal up quick.

[BruceB]

Amigo, you have my greatest sympathy.

I spent several months in hospital last year, and several surgeries gave me a close acquaintance with pain, bureaucracy, and the medical establishment.

It's almost as if they plan all the routine BS just to aggravate the patient and distract him from the REAL issues at hand.

I sleep poorly, and much of my ceiling-watching time finds me thinking of you in that hospital, and hoping for the best-possible outcome. Your updates are much-appreciated, and you must know that there are THOUSANDS of us here at CB who are pulling for you.

Bruce

[Goatwhiskers]

Mucho more prayers for ya good buddy. One good thing about all the drugs, it enables you to give less of a damn than you did already. When I was in SWMBO told me to lay off the friendly button, that I was rambling like a drunk. Never touched it again. Hang tough. GW

[OeldeWolf]

I agree, there are undoubtedly thousands of us praying for you or wishing you well.

[Wayne Smith]

And thousands who are either faithful enough or stubborn enough to not quit until you tell us you are fully healed and back in the air.

[TXGunNut]

I was hoping they'd kick you out today. Hang tough, hospitals are places where you go in with one issue and get treated for a couple more before you can escape. Make sure everyone coming in that door washes or sanitizes their hands, amazing how often that doesn't happen. MD's can be the worst, trust me.
Hopefully the road to recovery starts tomorrow. Won't be fun but you'll get thru it.

[45nut]

More prayers........

[Superfly]

Damn It Mr Get well soon we need the Pics of the nurses.

Hope tonight goes better for ya.

[Bad Water Bill]

Get well soon we need the Pics of the nurses

Recluse may be a lot of ----------- but STUPID is not one he has ever answered to.

Coming home from the hospital with a camera full of Candy Stripers and just above would definitely not be a story I would like to read about.

Right now the best picture he can post is of him in the pilots seat at 10K with his blushing bride in the seat along side of him heading down to his favorite BBQ shack.[smilie=w:[smilie=w:

[missionary5155]

Good morning
My prayers also. Mike in Peru

[P.K.]

More prayers........

Ditto.

[popper]

BWB - the candy stripers aren't what we got when we were young. Been replaced with full grown hippos.

[Love Life]

I'm praying for you, but I did tell you that chasing the nurses has been unscientifically proven to shorten recovery times by no less than 64%, enable hair growth, and is good for the skin. You should have chased the nurses...

Get well.

[Bullet Caster]

JD, my prayers go out to the Father to intercede on your behalf. I believe that there's power in prayer and I'll be praying for you every night. Hang in there and I hope to see a good report coming soon. BC

[km101]

Sorry to hear that things are not going well. Prayers and good thoughts coming your way. Hope your recovery is soon and swift!

We need all of us hard shell conservatives in good shape and watching the Libs! Get well and get 'outta there!