# Mr. Shoe is in the hospital **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279 "2012-08-12T16:58:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/542 "2012-10-07T17:00:17Z")
Yaaaaa for TOH ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/543 "2012-10-07T17:12:46Z")
Awww…I’m such a nursey nerd, that (while, admittedly I like the sweetness), my first thought was, “holy crap! He remembered not only your anniversary, but is alert and oriented enough to realize that it’s coming up/plan it/communicate his plans to his folks or a nurse or someone to conspire with/give you the stuff today? That’s some awesome cognitive functioning for what he’s been through and how disorienting ICUs can be!” So yay on multiple fronts! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/544 "2012-10-07T22:28:09Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Today is our wedding anniversary. How did a guy who can’t talk and is bedridden arrange an incredibly thoughtful gift and a card\* to give me this morning when I visited? Resourceful little bastard, is what he is. > > - the contents of which will never be divulged Ok. I guess it’s time to tell you. You aren’t the only Shoe with a thread on a message board. There’s another board where he asked us all to send him cards for various events to give to you. It’s an amazing effort of crowdsourcing. 🙂 Happy Anniversary! I can’t imagine how much that made your day to get the card, and his day to be able to pull it off. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/545 "2012-10-08T00:39:33Z")
Awwww!!! Go TOS!!! He’s a keeper 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/546 "2012-10-08T00:48:45Z")
What a great guy. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/547 "2012-10-08T00:50:40Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Awwww!!! Go TOS!!! He’s a keeper 🙂 Isn’t he, though? When I bent over him to thank him he smacked my ass. 🙂 I brought him a mineral water this morning to pour over his ice chips, and got a hearty if silent “Cheers!” from him to toast our day. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/548 "2012-10-08T09:26:14Z")
Now, that’s romance! Happy Anniversary and so glad things are going well. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/549 "2012-10-08T23:58:01Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Isn’t he, though? When I bent over him to thank him he smacked my ass. 🙂 I brought him a mineral water this morning to pour over his ice chips, and got a hearty if silent “Cheers!” from him to toast our day. 😃 A friend knew her husband was on the mend after a serious surgery / illness, when he asked her to show him her boobs (she happily obliged). ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/550 "2012-10-09T19:48:58Z")
He’s much more stable, overall, so their goal for him for this week is to keep slowly but steadily decreasing his reliance on the oxygen vent. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/551 "2012-10-09T20:19:52Z")
Hurrah! Slow and steady will get you there too…eventually. (just to let you know that yes; still reading, still care, and still sending good thoughts) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/552 "2012-10-09T20:47:37Z")
Good news! Here’s hoping he continues to get better! ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/553 "2012-10-09T23:13:32Z")
That’s great news! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/554 "2012-10-09T23:40:03Z")
Poor guy had his trach pulled out and changed for a fresh one today. Apparently that hurt like all hell. ☹ > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > … Today he was insisting on getting a pen - actually raised his arm high enough to start pulling one out of his dad’s shirt pocket - and wrote out ARNOLD PAL on his dad’s little notebook. “Arnold Palmer?” ask I. _Vigorous nods_. “The drink?” _More vigorous nodding_. . . Man, I posted that on August 27th?!? Seriously?!? :eek: Holy shit. Anyway: guess what his respiratory tech brought him today? 🆒 He didn’t even have to ask: she remembered that he’d been asking for one for what seems like ages. He got his first one today! Plus: we didn’t have to wear our masks, for the first time since he’s gotten ill. Still had the gown + gloves + booties, but no mask! I didn’t get a chance to ask why (resp. tech was on the phone) but, hey! I’m taking that as a good sign! They’re doing more physical therapy with him (range of motion, flexing his hips and helping him stretch a bit) and overall he just looks … stronger. More with it. Perhaps just a touch crankier, too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/555 "2012-10-09T23:43:33Z")
Wow! Doing great! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/556 "2012-10-10T00:21:38Z")
Happy Day! Let’s have more of these, please. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/557 "2012-10-10T00:40:24Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Plus: we didn’t have to wear our masks, for the first time since he’s gotten ill. Still had the gown + gloves + booties, but no mask! I didn’t get a chance to ask why … It is, indeed, a good sign. It means he’s been moved off of “Droplet Precautions” to “Contact Precautions”. His bacterial load must be now low enough that they don’t think he’ll cough contagious stuff on you, and his immune system is strong enough that they don’t think he’ll catch everything you cough on him. They’re still going to go slow and make sure you don’t give him cooties from your skin and clothes, but there are a lot more cooties spread by contact than by droplet/air, so that makes sense. 🙂 [http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/surveillance/hai/StandardPrecautions.htm](http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/surveillance/hai/StandardPrecautions.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/558 "2012-10-10T01:58:37Z")
Yay! That is wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/559 "2012-10-10T02:40:26Z")
Oh, yeah, and he’s been on spontaneous breathing (rather than assisted) for three solid days now. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/560 "2012-10-10T02:47:59Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Oh, yeah, and he’s been on spontaneous breathing (rather than assisted) for three solid days now. WOO-HOOO!!! (NOW she tells us! 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279/561 "2012-10-10T02:49:30Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > (NOW she tells us! 😉 ) I know! Wow, that’s awesome! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-shoe-is-in-the-hospital/631279.md?page=29)