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AIDAMENSCHEL
GREETINGS: HI! This is a message from Aida's husband of 54 years of married bliss <grin>.
Thanks to all the encouragement that Aida received from so many of you on this Forum, she finally decided to forget her fear of the unknown and "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead", she opted for the operation....and on the 19th of Dec., she actually passed out as we were about to go for an appointment in town.
I rushed her to Kaiser at Zion in San Diego, CA and immediately they had her in the Emergency room.....and better care, you cannot buy, believe me. After a couple of days at the Kaiser Hospital, they transferred Aida to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, CA.
Once they got her bladder infection under control, the operation went as scheduled....and after a double-bypass and an AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT, she was in the ICU room for a day....but her recovery started almost at once...and just one day later she was up in a private room under great care and supervision, around the clock.
Steadily she was on the mend and today, Aida was transferred to Scripps Torrey Pines Convalescent & Therapy Center in La Jolla. CA.
Everything went along much better than we ever expected and in a week, she very likely will be home, and waiting on me, hand and foot....Oh, Yeh? <G>. Very likely we will have an In-Home care person come daily for a while and our daughter will also help out several days per week, until she is back on her feet, completely.
Since I suffer from a greatly deteriorated Hip and Spinal Stenosis, and recently cured (?), from Prostate, via Radiation I now get around on a motorized scooter....The greatest thing since sliced bread, as they say.....Aida has a wheelchair and a walker, but when she comes home, I will give her my scooter to to her shopping, once she is able, and I will use the walker. <grin>...Boy, as I write this, I say to myself, I am not too bad a husband, after all these years....But, don't tell Aida I said it!
Sorry we don't have a Laptop otherwise she would pick up the thread and start banging out her situation in more, 'down to earth words'......but in another week she should be back here at the computer and she loves the friedship she has made here.
So, thanks to you all, for now that it is just about over with, she is almost back to normal....and our entire family, across the country is so thankful that she went ahead on your say-so.
BTW, For Aida's benefit, I printed out ALL the messages on this forum since her last message here.....she will be reading them all in the morning. THANKS, AGAIN!!!
MITCH MENSCHEL/WEBMASTER
Thanks to all the encouragement that Aida received from so many of you on this Forum, she finally decided to forget her fear of the unknown and "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead", she opted for the operation....and on the 19th of Dec., she actually passed out as we were about to go for an appointment in town.
I rushed her to Kaiser at Zion in San Diego, CA and immediately they had her in the Emergency room.....and better care, you cannot buy, believe me. After a couple of days at the Kaiser Hospital, they transferred Aida to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, CA.
Once they got her bladder infection under control, the operation went as scheduled....and after a double-bypass and an AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT, she was in the ICU room for a day....but her recovery started almost at once...and just one day later she was up in a private room under great care and supervision, around the clock.
Steadily she was on the mend and today, Aida was transferred to Scripps Torrey Pines Convalescent & Therapy Center in La Jolla. CA.
Everything went along much better than we ever expected and in a week, she very likely will be home, and waiting on me, hand and foot....Oh, Yeh? <G>. Very likely we will have an In-Home care person come daily for a while and our daughter will also help out several days per week, until she is back on her feet, completely.
Since I suffer from a greatly deteriorated Hip and Spinal Stenosis, and recently cured (?), from Prostate, via Radiation I now get around on a motorized scooter....The greatest thing since sliced bread, as they say.....Aida has a wheelchair and a walker, but when she comes home, I will give her my scooter to to her shopping, once she is able, and I will use the walker. <grin>...Boy, as I write this, I say to myself, I am not too bad a husband, after all these years....But, don't tell Aida I said it!
Sorry we don't have a Laptop otherwise she would pick up the thread and start banging out her situation in more, 'down to earth words'......but in another week she should be back here at the computer and she loves the friedship she has made here.
So, thanks to you all, for now that it is just about over with, she is almost back to normal....and our entire family, across the country is so thankful that she went ahead on your say-so.
BTW, For Aida's benefit, I printed out ALL the messages on this forum since her last message here.....she will be reading them all in the morning. THANKS, AGAIN!!!
MITCH MENSCHEL/WEBMASTER
