Thanks for the continued updates, Bill. Continued good wishes to both of you. Hope Dondra gets sprung soon!
Sending happy thoughts and healing wishes to y’all. I wish I were closer, I’d come see ya. Hubby also sends his regards. 
- Vodka / gin / rum have antibacterial properties so you and Dondra should both partake
- You need to really PISS HER OFF. This way she will get mad and yell at you, which is good for the breathing.
From home washing clothes and cleaning house and getting myself cleaned up! I took showers at the hospital, but didn’t really feel clean. Got some bills to pay and then back.
Mama Z and Typo Knig, thanks. We’ll muddle through somehow.
Don’t know if you noticed it upthread, but it’s okay with me if you post that pic.
Thanks
Q
As permitted, here it is 
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What a lovely couple!
Hoping Dondra gets everything in sync soon. Hugs to you both.
Yeah, good people. You can tell.
Back in the hospital with D. Brought clean clothes in hopes we might be able to go home tomorrow. Our kitty, Bert, didn’t stop meowing for the longest time after I got there. I think he may be missing someone.
Low grade temp today (99 degrees) and her surgeon is coming by to check her site later on today.
Mama Z and Typo Knig: I agree. That is one of the better pictures of me - I don’t usually make a good picture at all, but you chose a good one, thanks.
No news yet about a discharge.
Thanks guys, for hanging in there with the German Boy and his Southern Belle! 
Bill
pS: Mama Z , Dondra loves that picture too!
… thinking of you both. Hospitals aren’t fun places.
A dirty Alliance shirt! En garde, human scum!
But really, I love that you own your geekiness, even if you aren’t cool enough to be an orc like me. Best wishes
Sending well wishes and sunshine from FL. As promised, I waved and blew two kisses (one for each of you) out the window of the plane. Hang in there! I will be requesting prayer for her tomorrow.
I don’t have any sunshine to send (Hey, I live in Rainland now), but I’m sending good thoughts every day.
More good thoughts from California!
Also, a laugh…or a wince: My sweetie’s ex-wife once confused the Bengay in the bedside drawer with…you guessed it…the KY. Sounds like a tall tale, but he told me that once, long ago, and made me promise not to tell his ex <we all get along great> ; a few weeks ago she told me about it herself, lol!
Hope Dondra and you get home with much less pain than that
Fingers crossed and happy thoughts for continued improvement!
Also want to pass along advice about borrowing body wash from other folks. Check to see if it contains menthol. I found out most unexpectedly that menthol is not welcome in female areas.
… now get a plastic bottle which contains 2 fluid ounces. That little bottle represents a normal gallbladder. The Snapple bottle is the gallbladder which was taken out of Dondra.
We are still here in the hospital. Her cardiologist stopped by earlier and told her that her increased pulmonary pressure is due to a leaking heart valve. That’s all he said, except “it is what it is”, which, to me, is a phrase which cancels itself out and isn’t really saying anything at all.
D’s room air oxygen saturation is 88% without 2 liters of O2. Her normal room air sat is 99 to 100%, so this is of some concern to me. When I was an RT, we’d send people home with a room air sat of only 88, and she has never smoked or inhaled dangerous fumes in her life.
For that reason, I’m not letting Georgia Lung sign off on her yet. Something still needs fixing that isn’t being fixed yet.
The good news is that her temps have settled down. Her latest was 99.2.
Her surgeon came by the morning and told us the site was fine, and that she’d have pain for at least two more weeks.
That’s all we know for now.
Thanks
Bill
Bill, you’re fortunate that you have each other. You’re taking great care of Dondra, and making sure the doctors are taking great care of her as well. You both are still in our thoughts and prayers: keep up the fight!
An error above: I meant to say "we send people home with OXYGEN with a room air sat of only 88%!
Sorry!
Bill
I was a bit confused at first..but this makes sense.
Hope the sat % gets resolved, and things get back to normal!
-D/a
She’s getting a 6 minute walk w/o O2 in just a few minutes and it looks like we’ll be going home with oxygen and a walker.
I have spoken with the doctors from GA LUNG who reminded me the Pulmonary Hypertension isn’t curable and they plan to send us home today.
She’s wondering if her Social Security disbursement might be increase because of this new development. Anybody know?
Thanks
Q
Hang in there, both of you!
Speaking as someone who spent many summers in Hessen (my mom’s home), boy, do you look German!