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MRI Results Are Not Good
Smitty500mag
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Found out about 2 hours ago that the MRI shows that Miss June has had a massive stroke. She opens her eyes some but she is not talking but she's trying. She is blinking her eyes for me so she recognizes me. The doctor told me earlier that she may not regain consciousness but she already has.
They've ask me if I want her revived if she quits breathing and if I want a feeding tube installed. I told them that June has told me many times she does not want to live like a vegetable but I don't want them to starve her to death and as long as she is responding of course I want her revived. It's just been one full day since the stroke and I not giving up on her this soon.
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I’m so sorry, Smitty. My prayers are with you during this dark time.
Prayers sent
Very sorry to hear that. Stay strong and prayers sent.
...My prayers for both of ya'll..
Prayers continue!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Just a thought.. anything is possible. My Mom had a double stroke three yrs ago. Dr. told me there was no hope. Well two days later on a Saturday I called the hospital with no one answering in the room. Called the nurses station... Mom was getting ready for the Dr. to come in. Seems she got out of bed, walked down to the end of the hall with her IV stand. Nurses freaked out and so did the Dr. She came home later that day. Prayers for her.
My prayers continue. I pray for peace, healing, solace. I am here if you need to speak with someone who has been there. I don't mind sharing my phone number, 573-354-2067 is my landline.
It is here should there be anyone else who needs an ear or a shoulder.
Select-fire, My wife Diane been there done that. Her knees and hip very badly injured from fall. Slurred speech, could not raise hands and dilated pupils. Was all we could do to get her off Loin's claw on antique oak table. EMS, police and me, joint effort. My daughter and I waited all night practically in ER. Her speech returned slowly but stroke did not show up on Cat scan. After many hours MRI report came in confirming our fears. I am doing the best I can for my bride of 57 years.
Smitty, I know that you are doing the best that you can. You and Miss June have come so far. Sending more prayers for you and your bride.---------------------------------Ray
sorry to hear ,
both of you remain in our thoughts and prayers
I don't have words to give you any real comfort Smitty. You and your bride are in the toughest spot imaginable right now, and I have absolutely the deepest admiration for the strength and resolve you folks are showing. I'm in awe of you both. She's already beaten the odds and proven that the drs are only "practicing" medicine. Everything happens on God's timetable, not ours, but this household will be asking Him for blessings on Miss June and her dedicated husband.
As always prayers sent from our neck of the woods
Sorry to hear that Smitty...Stay strong...
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Our thoughts and best wishes to you and family.
Mule
Your one hell of a man Smitty, I couldn't think of anything more that one human being could do for another. Prayers for your strength, and your brides health and comfort.
Wishing her a safe recovery! My dad had a stroke back in 2008 and had to fly down to CA as he wasn’t expected to live another 24 hours. He did pull through but ended up in a rehab facility that was not a good one in my opinion and he ended up having a second stroke a month later that took him. If she does pull through and has to go to a facility vet them if possible. Not all of them are the same when it comes to care.
It’s been a long and difficult ride for you both. Many would have folded by now. Wishing you the strength to get through what is in front of you two now.
I am so sorry.....she is so lucky to have you there and that she has someone that cares so much about her.
Fervent prayers from northeast Arkansas
I pray for your family and the suffering you are going through Smitty, God bless
Prayers for Miss June.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
My heart an prayers goes out to you an yours
Smitty, it's really difficult for most folks without medical experience to understand what the doctors & nurses are telling us when a loved one is having a medical emergency. You need to find an "advocate" to help you; that would be a person with medical experience such as a current/former doctor, nurse, medical technician, paramedic, or EMT, who can visit the hospital with you & act as a translator with the doctors.
You will need to get involved in legal & medical decisions, referring to advance directive, medical power of attorney, & these decisions will be important. You need help, & you need it right away.
Neal
Lord help guide the doctors hands and heal
I want to see this post go and go and go with no bad news.
Same here----------------Ray
Prayers for you and Miss June.
Prayers for her and your family. God is the great Physician.
It's all bad news. She's in hospice at the Sacred Journey hospice care facility in McDonough Georgia. She's in a coma and sometimes I think she hears me other times I don't. We have a private room and I can stay with her 24 hours a day.
Our youngest son and his wife flew in from Seattle.
Right now she's in terrible shape her lungs are filling up with fluid and I've been standing over her with a vacuum pump all last night and today and tonight. I was able to vacuum out two fairly large containers of body fluid from her throat that sounds like she's drowning in it. The nurses here said that was normal for lung cancer patients and they thought that I should not do that and just let nature take its course but I can't let her lay there sounding like she's drowning and wondering if she's panicking inside and not able to tell me about it. The chemo really really did a trick on her mouth. Her teeth just are crumbling and her tongue is one scab and her neck is swollen up really huge.
They put one of those automatic pumps on her that pumps in the pain medicine plus they give her a squirt of morphine under her tongue every couple of hours. Every 15 minutes I can push the button on that pump and give her another charge of pain medicine. I don't know how long she can keep up this heaving and gurgling. Her heart rate is at 151 beats per minute at the last time they checked it.
Thought our youngest son was going to have some kind of seizures after seeing his mom getting worse and worse today. He's never been one to show emotion but this is a whole different matter. Our oldest son can't make it down here because he's taking care of his wife who has stage 4 brain and lymph node cancer. June's brother can't make it down here either because he has prostate cancer that they're back giving treatments to him since the cancer returned.
This is a nice facility with very friendly people. They bring around breakfast, lunch and dinner for me here in the room so I don't have to go out which I thought was pretty nice.
When June opens her eyes I put my arms around her and start talking to her and tell her if there's any way to just turn loose and go home and that I'll be along shortly. I told her to save me a seat and I hope it's not a hot one.
I leaned over yesterday afternoon and gave her a kiss and was surprised that she kissed me back. I don't know if it was a reflex or not but I think it was real.
Well I sat down to rest just now and I hear her really gurgling again loudly so I'm going to crank up the vacuum machine and go back to work. I'll talk to you all later.
Smitty you and June are strong people. Prayers for all your family.
Praying for an end to your suffering.
God's will be done. Praying for you, Ms. June and your extended family.
Mom survived colon cancer 17 years with the bag and then ovarian cancer took her. I sat by her side 10 days at Henrico Doctors Hospital. The doctors told me their was no hope. She begged me to return to NY from Virginia and I did. Got home and had to turn around and come back.
Dad had lung cancer and they cut him low in the right back. Made two trips to Virginia to change his dressing and help him back on his feet. He refused to go for rehab. He survived.
And now my sweetheart Diane with the cancer and other problems.
Smitty, I hate this damn Cancer. My heart aches for you and Miss June. May God bless you both.------------------------------------------Ray
Prayers for a peaceful passage for your love. Hospice is a wonderful invention and the folks that work there are angels
If insurance companies would allow for all their members to have a full body MRI every 5 years a lot of this could be prevented. It would definitely be cheaper because we're already over the two and a half million dollar mark for June's hospital and doctor bills since August before last.
I guess that would be a problem for the hospitals and the doctors not to mention the drug companies because they wouldn't get their cut of the money so it ain't gonna happen.
Words fail me.
I've had to make the hardest decision of my life. No feeding tubes no IVs.
During this past year and a half June made me promise that I wouldn't let her lay as a vegetable and slowly die.
As I type this I'm sitting by her side and she started gurgling up blood instead of body fluid now. She's not awake but shes still moaning in pain even though she's loaded down with morphine and other drugs including Fentanyl and Dilaudid and some that I've never heard of.
Matt, our youngest son, can't take it any longer. I told his wife, Mie, to get him out of here because nobody should see their mother suffer like this.
This is a god-awful disease and I just about can't take it any longer either. I'm sitting here alone with her now. It's just me and her as I pray for a merciful God to take her and get her out of her misery.
Evidently God is making June suffer in order to torment me for all the bad things that I've done in life. Nothing in this world could make me suffer more than what I'm suffering now. Maybe I'm dead and in hell and don't know it and I'm destined to watch this for the rest of eternity.
I know it's hard to do at this moment, but trust in God and know that not every trial that we go through is a punishment. Your faith which allowed Ms. June to be with you much longer than the doctors predicted and testimony to that faith may have inspired or brought others closer to Him.
Hold close to the memories of the good times and rejoice knowing she will soon be free of pain.
It’s natural to feel that way but I don’t believe it’s true. I believe in time you will come to terms with it. No one knows God’s plan for us.