Re: Jan -Hi All

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Hi Jan-

Great to have you back and well! Thank you for the update on Jim as well. So

very happy he is feeling better. Now time to send up praises for answered

prayers.

We will trade you some snow for your rain. It just keeps piling up here. I

can't imagine the thought of opening a window here...current temp. on our home

thermometer is 9.

Take care Jam!!

S

Des Moines, IA

dad, Merle, passed from LBD 9-20-02, age 65

mum, (MIL), Jo, passed from LBD 4-29-07, age 78

-- Janet Colello wrote:

Hi,

I am back and well. I know Sharon has been keeping you updated.

It turned out that after I brought Jim to ER on the weekend, Sunday, that he

was home, four days later

on Valentine's Day at the nursing home, he was showing signs of weakness and

spiked a high fever and

wheezing and coughing and not able to keep his head up. They were doing a

Valentine Luncheon for

the residence at the nursing home, so after work I swung by to join Jim, only to

find out that they had called

the paramedics and were preparing him to go to ER. In ER, it was a 15 hour stay,

they were overwhelmed with

people and no rooms, so Jim was on a gurney in a hallway with many other

patients waiting for a room for over

7 hours. They couldn't transfer to other hospitals in the area, because they

were having the same problems. Jim finally got a room, it was another 8 hours of

testing again, since he had been there only 4 days

ago. It turned out he had bronchial pneumonia and from exhaustion, I caught

Acute Bronchitis. I am telling you,

it threw me for a loop and every muscle ached and I spiked a fever and I could

not get comfortable for two nights,

I was so restless tossing and turning trying to find a comfortable position. I

was so weak, when I stood up, I would just

fall back on the bed and sleep. I didn't have the energy to prepare the simplest

meal. For 3 days all I had was cups

of tea and a toasted bagel one day. Finally, on the 4th day I mustered up a

little energy and made it out the

door to go to the grocery store in the pouring down rain to buy some chicken

soup, saltine crackers and some pineapple chunks and I stopped in a drugstore

and asked a pharmacist what I could take for my horrible congestion

and cough and she suggested MucinexDM and today, I am a whole new person. I woke

up with energy and cleaned the house after laying around in it for 4 days and

did some laundry and aired the house of all the yucky germs and wiped everything

down with Lysol and went to visit Jim and he is doing fine, but still has the

nasty congestion, but looking a lot better. He has lost weight in the amount of

time that I have not been with him, I think it is from dehydration, so I have to

work on getting him back to himself. I think we're going to make it!

Bronchial Pneumonia and Bronchitis is going around the nursing home. It is how

Jim and I caught it.

Jim is on breathing treatments, Albuterol with a nebulizer and it is helping to

break up all the congestion in his

chest. He sneezed up a wad today when I put that mask on his nose. Lovely sight

clinging to the mask. LOL I am just

glad to see it is coming loose.

It's great to be back!.................Jan

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