Back yet again

Yes, it's really true.  It's really me.  Arnold Loveridge, writing from the pages of Too Old to Know Better.  This entry and the next couple are likely to be really short as I try to figure out and report on what I've been doing the past three weeks.

First, current conditions and restrictions:

     Weight  195 pounds

      Blood Pressure:  136/76

      Pulse:  88

      Temp:  98.4

      No food, medicine, or water by mouth.  All by tube directly into stomach.

Major events:

Jan 4 caught serious chest cold

Jan 5 - 10 ups and downs with cold

Jan 11 - appointment with doctor, immediate admission to hospital

Jan 12 - Tracheotomy

Jan 18 - removal of Trache

Jan 19 - discharge from hospital (8 days stay)

Feb  4 - appointment with doctor, immediate admission to hospital
             intubated almost immediately, and re-trached by noon that same day. The PEG was surgically                                  implanted Fe 7 or 8.
Feb 7 -  Tracheotomy

Feb 13 - discharge from hospital (9 days stay)

Support by kids

Jan 22-26     Lee

Jan 27 – Feb 2  Natalie

Feb 3 – Feb 8   Jessica

Many, many      Ed & Tiffany

Feb 8 – 10    Steven & Lisa

Many, many, many    Carolyn