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Member Section => Prayer Requests => Topic started by: alfsauve on February 02, 2011, 04:45:35 PM
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My dad (91) had a minor heart attack, then fell in the bathroom and brook his hip. (My wife and I also think he had a minor stroke because he's slurring his speech just a tad)
He's in Dr Hospital in Sarasota and Kitty and I drove down from Marietta last night. He looks weak. The hip isn't a big deal. But being healthy/strong enough for them to operate may be a problem.
We're staying down through Saturday and taking over his finances and cleaning out his house. When he gets out of rehab in ~6weeks we're moving him to be with us in Ga.
Keep us in your thoughts and prayers
Haz and Peg: Sorry I didn't stop on the way by. I did wave.
Also, Dad has no internet access, so I have to go to Starbucks to get connected and may only be on for a limited time.
Alf
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Prayers with ya Alf.
BTW I thought I felt a 'close miss'! ;)
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Prayers to you and your Family alf.
God Bless.
tw
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Will be prayin'
We have a similar thing here, and I hope yours goes as well. It is so much easier when they make the decision on "their own" so you don't have to force it. Hope he is on the same page as you and understands.
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Prayers with your dad and you and the family, Alf.
I thought I heard a round ricochet off the mailbox. ;)
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Sorry to hear this. God Bless on a quick recovery and good luck with the move.
My advice is to get him out of the hospital as soon as reasonably possible. The longer he's there, the more chance for other problems.
T
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Prayers on the way. For you and your father.
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Your Dad counts as one of us also.
God Bless,
Richard
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Good son, Alf.
God bless your old man.
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What they all said.
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Done.
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Me too Alf. My Dad's gone and none of it is easy, but if you have done all you can you can take peace in that.
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Done, Alf.
Take care.
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Sorry to hear that Alf! My prayers are with you and your family!!
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Thanks everyone for thoughts and prayers.
Dad went through surger for hip repair this morning with flying colors. No heart issues. (PTL). He's headed for recovery and then for rehab next week.
Alf
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Great news! Hope the transition goes well as you return home and care from a distance.
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Great News, Afl !!! :D :D :D :D
At 91, your dad is a tough Old Bird.
Still might be tough times ahead, but he's heading the right way.
Take care.
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Glad to hear, Alf! He stays on the list though. ;)
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Great news....glad the surgery went well....continuing prayers for a speedy recovery.
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Thanks for the update.
God Bless,
Richard
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Great news Alf.
From one that's been there and done that with a hip replacement (4 times), he needs to stay with the rehab. The work will pay off.
God Bless and continued prayers.
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Great news Alf, continued good health for your dad.
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Update: My sister who works in the medical field (back office - not nurse) worked with the orthopedic surgeon to get him discharged today. The cardiologist wanted to keep him indefinitely in the hospital, but she was able to get him released. He went by ambulance to the Rehab Center, which is were he has been a volunteer for the last 20 years. The Rehab folks are all anxious to help him and we think he's in good hands. There's nothing they can do about the heart, but at rehab they can work on his hip and his exercise and getting him out of bed and on the road to recovery.
He could still pass away at any moment, but it wont' be from atrophy in a hospital bed. Go Dad.
While never in combat, he served during WWII and was among other things POW commandant over Japanese POWs at Moody AFB, and NCOIC at Hickham Field, HI, at the end of the war. He had orders to be the second wave ashore if we invaded Japan, so I for one am happy that Japan surrenders, else I might have never been conceived. (yeah nukes!) And while he only tells a few stories of his time in the service, I think a lot of it was a MASH like experience. He never actually "went" to boot camp, but graduated by reading "the book". He taught himself to shoot and to fly and had aviator wings as an NCO....Piper Cub, but still. I've cleaned out his house this past week and will post some pictures. Pictures, btw, that I had never ever seen of my dad during WWII.
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Good news again Alf..
The quicker he gets out of there, the less the chance of secondary infections. Hospitals are filthy places...
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Good news again Alf..
The quicker he gets out of there, the less the chance of secondary infections. Hospitals are filthy places...
+1 on getting out....and up. Speaking from experience of being trapped in a hospital bed for months flat of my back, the sooner he can get up (medically ready, of course) the better.
Continued prayers for speedy recovery and rehab.
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Sounds pretty good, Alf.
No matter what comes, he will be doing instead of sitting and will be with friends who care. Can't ask for much more than that....unless they are buying too ;D
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Great news Alf! As tough as it is to go through, enjoy these times when you can care for the one that cared for you all those years and show him the job he did.