So, I haven't written in this in probably over a year, but I think I'm going to pick it back up for a while. I'm not going to write a huge entry, so here are the basics of whats been going on
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heh.. Actually, I've thought about calling you or em a couple times when I got really scared. Well, its his chrons. Around january we found out he had been sick for like a month because of a blockage a the opening of his kidneys, so they put a stent in. But like four weeks later he had emergency surgery because he had chrons related internal abcesses which were drained and then the incision was left open with a tube in it to drain. But like two days later waste started coming out. Turns out the loop of small intestine that has been a problem for like ten years has a hole in it. But since he's already missing several feet of small intestine the doctors won't cut out the hole. 8 weeks later he was still draining, swollen and running a fever, but the doctors wouldn't re-admit him. He went through emergency, where they gave him morphine. Turns out he's developed an allergy to it over the years. His heart rate dropped to like 30, and he turned the color of death according to ruth. They kept him for two days but then let him go with some new medicine. that was like a month or so ago and hes still draining and running a fever... probably from the bodily toxins left in him... I know he can only survive getting this kind of surgery one or two more times after this but I feel like this is stupid and they should just fix it and dad should get more serious about it all. Instead, I'm pretty sure they're letting him die. He's really fucking thin. (The joke is that he was afraid to get his hair cut too short because he might look like a concentration camp survivor). I think you can agree on this one: Yay Oakwood. Sorry, I know that was probably waaay tmi. But yeah, thats the basics.
"Yay Oakwood" that's for sure. When I had my surgery a couple of months back The doctor wanted to perform it there and I refused to even step foot in that building and made him do it elsewhere. That's unfortunate to hear about that but from what it sounds like it could have been much worse especially with a heart rate dropping to 30. I remember poking around online and seeing your sisters myspace and someone had commented on there "I hope your dad gets better." I had been meaning to ask you but I havn't seen you online in a long long time.
I take it him and Ruth are still together? How's your mom, rod, louis, and isabelle doing? I read your latest entry shortly before reading your response to this one and was dumbfounded when you quoted your talk with isabelle just because she's talking now and the last time I saw her she wasn't even walking. I drove past your mom's house a few weeks ago because I was doing an install not too far away from their house on the island and I saw a tall kid playing out in the yard which i'm assuming it was louis and to be honest it reminded me that i actually miss your family.
Anyways have a good time over in Egypt, I hope your dad's health improves, and keep in touch with me, seriously, keep in touch with me Mal.
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I take it him and Ruth are still together? How's your mom, rod, louis, and isabelle doing? I read your latest entry shortly before reading your response to this one and was dumbfounded when you quoted your talk with isabelle just because she's talking now and the last time I saw her she wasn't even walking. I drove past your mom's house a few weeks ago because I was doing an install not too far away from their house on the island and I saw a tall kid playing out in the yard which i'm assuming it was louis and to be honest it reminded me that i actually miss your family.
Anyways have a good time over in Egypt, I hope your dad's health improves, and keep in touch with me, seriously, keep in touch with me Mal.
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