Michael is sitting up, walking with assistance around his room and complaining
about the food but is eating a regular diet now so we can take him some decent
food now and then.
He begged for Hershey kisses so I took those last night with the doctor's
approval.

Not much to give you as an update except his blood pressure is still erratic,
yesterday it went to 235 again and today is below 100. They still suspicion
that he may have what is known as Pheochromocytoma, caused from the growth on
the adrenal gland which produces a large amount of adrenaline at times causing
his blood pressure to shoot up so high but they won't know for certain until
the tests from Mayo clinic are back which will be about Dec. 7th or 8th.

He is still in Intensive Care and will be until the tests come back and if he
has the "PHEO"
for short it will require surgery again to remove the growth and that means he
will be in the hospital until sometime January.

No phones in the ICU Rooms allowed. No cell phones because it interferes with
equipment but he is begging me to bring my phone and I may sneak it in for him
for a quick call, to whom I don't know. Cards may be sent, but no flowers or
balloons in ICU.

If anyone wants to send cards and letters, email . She
is familiar with everyone and can filter out the idiots.

Gms





It's snowing in Memphis but Graceland's all alight,
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight.

.....Christmas in Dixie....

Hark! I heard (Sarah Monroe) say:

Michael is sitting up, walking with assistance around his room and complaining
about the food

Hurray, hurray!!

but is eating a regular diet now so we can take him some decent
food now and then.
He begged for Hershey kisses so I took those last night with the doctor's
approval.

Kewl! If he can eat, he's on his way. This is such great news!

snip

If anyone wants to send cards and letters, email . She
is familiar with everyone and can filter out the idiots.

Yup, getting lots of requests. As I've said, I'll give that address out
as soon as it's available to me...


--
j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~
...fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!

"Sarah Monroe" wrote in message
...
Michael is sitting up, walking with assistance around his room and
complaining
about the food but is eating a regular diet now so we can take him some
decent
food now and then.
He begged for Hershey kisses so I took those last night with the doctor's
approval.

Not much to give you as an update except his blood pressure is still
erratic,
yesterday it went to 235 again and today is below 100. They still
suspicion
that he may have what is known as Pheochromocytoma, caused from the growth
on
the adrenal gland which produces a large amount of adrenaline at times
causing
his blood pressure to shoot up so high but they won't know for certain
until
the tests from Mayo clinic are back which will be about Dec. 7th or 8th.

He is still in Intensive Care and will be until the tests come back and if
he
has the "PHEO"
for short it will require surgery again to remove the growth and that
means he
will be in the hospital until sometime January.

No phones in the ICU Rooms allowed. No cell phones because it interferes
with
equipment but he is begging me to bring my phone and I may sneak it in for
him
for a quick call, to whom I don't know. Cards may be sent, but no
flowers or
balloons in ICU.

If anyone wants to send cards and letters, email .
She
is familiar with everyone and can filter out the idiots.

Gms



Thanks for the update Sarah. I appreciate the e-mail address. I already
e-mailed and am looking forward to sending a card. It will be good for
Michael to hear from all of his friends here. As always , He is in my
prayers.

Barbara



It's snowing in Memphis but Graceland's all alight,
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight.

....Christmas in Dixie....

(j.j.) writes:

Michael is complaining about the food

Hurray, hurray!!

Let us know when he's fondling the nurses.


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Yup, getting lots of requests. As I've said, I'll give that address out
as soon as it's available to m

Thought I sent it, sending this very minute. Swamped with email, if I ignore
anybody it's because I am buried under it. I pity the poor mailroom clerk at
the hospital


Gms AKA Sarah



It's snowing in Memphis but Graceland's all alight,
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight.

.....Christmas in Dixie....

(j.j.) wrote in
:

Hark! I heard (Sarah Monroe) say:

Michael is sitting up, walking with assistance around his room and
complaining about the food

Hurray, hurray!!

but is eating a regular diet now so we can take him some decent
food now and then.
He begged for Hershey kisses so I took those last night with the
doctor's approval.

Kewl! If he can eat, he's on his way. This is such great news!


It is wonderful news! Bet he enjoyed those choccies.


--
Rhonda Anderson
Penrith, NSW, Australia

Hark! I heard (Sarah Monroe) say:

Yup, getting lots of requests. As I've said, I'll give that address out
as soon as it's available to me

Thought I sent it, sending this very minute. Swamped with email, if I ignore
anybody it's because I am buried under it.

I haven't seen it yet, but we *are* talking about Hotmail. ;-)

I pity the poor mailroom clerk at the hospital

Heh!


--
j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~
...fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!

Sarah Monroe wrote:

Yup, getting lots of requests. As I've said, I'll give that address out
as soon as it's available to m


Thought I sent it, sending this very minute. Swamped with email, if I ignore
anybody it's because I am buried under it. I pity the poor mailroom clerk at
the hospital


Gms AKA Sarah



It's snowing in Memphis but Graceland's all alight,
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight.

....Christmas in Dixie....


If he's bitchin', he's getting better. YEAH!!! Go Doggie, go!


--
Steve

Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.

j.j. wrote:

Hark! I heard (Sarah Monroe) say:


Yup, getting lots of requests. As I've said, I'll give that address out
as soon as it's available to me


Thought I sent it, sending this very minute. Swamped with email, if I ignore
anybody it's because I am buried under it.


I haven't seen it yet, but we *are* talking about Hotmail. ;-)


I pity the poor mailroom clerk at the hospital


Heh!


eh... just picture Cliff Clavin. He'd deserve it now wouldn't he? ;-)
'course it may not get there...

--
Steve

Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.

Sarah Monroe saw Sally selling seashells by the seashore and told us
all about it on 04 Dec 2003 21:01:51 GMT:

Michael is sitting up, walking with assistance around his room and complaining
about the food but is eating a regular diet now so we can take him some decent
food now and then.
He begged for Hershey kisses so I took those last night with the doctor's
approval.

No phones in the ICU Rooms allowed. No cell phones because it interferes with
equipment but he is begging me to bring my phone and I may sneak it in for him
for a quick call, to whom I don't know. Cards may be sent, but no flowers or
balloons in ICU.

If anyone wants to send cards and letters, email . She
is familiar with everyone and can filter out the idiots.

Yay Michael! This is great news... I hope the test results are
favourable so he can get out of the hospital sooner. Give him
everyone's love and tell him he'll be drowned in mail soon! lol

(huggles)

~Karen AKA Kajikit

Nobody outstubborns a cat...

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Hark! I heard (j.j.) say:
Hark! I heard (Sarah Monroe) say:

Thought I sent it, sending this very minute. Swamped with email, if
I ignore anybody it's because I am buried under it.

I haven't seen it yet, but we *are* talking about Hotmail. ;-)

Okay, Sarah got the address to me (thanks again!) and I've sent it
to everyone who was on my request list. If you didn't get it and you
know you already asked me, just ask again. I don't think I missed
anyone, but I really don't care for the Hotmail interface that much,
so anything is possible (but hey, it's free).

If you want it and haven't asked yet, remove the "NOTSO" from my
address to write me. Let's keep those cards and letters going, which
reminds me, I need to get to the store and buy cards myself... :-)


--
j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~
...fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!

Sarah Monroe wrote:

Not much to give you as an update except his blood pressure is still erratic,
yesterday it went to 235 again and today is below 100. They still suspicion
that he may have what is known as Pheochromocytoma,

Wow, a Pheo. The fable docs tell about it is that you'll see one in your
career. I saw my one and only over 10 years ago during the first week of
my internship. Usually very curable, that would be a happy answer to his
blood pressure problems. Let's hope the doc hasn't "seen" his or hers
yet.
blacksalt

Sarah Monroe wrote:
It's snowing in Memphis but Graceland's all alight,

Graceland may have been all alight, but it did NOT snow in Memphis.

Jill

Sarah Monroe wrote:

No phones in the ICU Rooms allowed. No cell phones because it interferes with
equipment but he is begging me to bring my phone and I may sneak it in for him
for a quick call, to whom I don't know. Cards may be sent, but no flowers or
balloons in ICU.

Quoting from:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/9.21.html#subj2.1

Medical systems and RF interference...

"Edward A. Ranzenbach"
Tue, 5 Sep 89 12:15 EDT

Last evening I visited a local hospital ICU to check on the status of a
patient
I had treated and transported eariler in the day (I am a certified paramedic,
in my copious spare time). The patient was on a state-of-the-art mechanical
respirator. While discussing the patient's case with the attending physcian
at
the patient's bedside, the respirator failed, accompanied by a visual and
auditory fanfare of alarms. The physcian quickly reset the device and we
continued our discussion. Moments later the device once again failed and had
to be reset (it should be noted that a number of differing events can cause
alarms in these devices and they occasionally need adjusting and service). By

the third occurance of this failure I had noticed a pattern. Each time I
heard
radio traffic on my portable radio (in the 800 MHz band) the respirator
failed.
We were not transmitting mind you, only receiving but this seemed to be enough

to set off the alarms. Just then we received a call and when my partner keyed

his mike to transmit several other respirators in adjoining rooms also becamed

alarmed and prompted a flurry of activity to reset them. Needless to say, our

radios are now banned from the unit. Unfortunately, I had to leave abruptly
and did not have time to research the model or manufactuer but will follow up
when the opportunity presents itself.