[tmtranscripts] I'm back

[Thea Hardy]

Dear all - thanks for  your posts, private and public - can't answer  
them all now but appreciate the love and support and warm fuzzies very  
much.

Exhausted but holding on,

Love,

Thea

PS Rose, dear, of course I remember you - didn't we have a great time  
singing Christmas carols that one year?! :-)


On Jun 19, 2004, at 6:22 PM, ROSE HYATT wrote:

> DEAR THEA,  THANK GOD YOU HAVE COME THRU THIS ORDEAL. I'M SURE YOU  
> HAVE A NEW OUTLOOK ON HOW PRECIOUS LIFE IS. FATHER AND MOTHER WERE  
> LOOKING AFTER YOU AND YOU HAVE MUCH YOU WILL ACCOMPLISH WITH ALL YOUR  
> GOD-GIVEN TALENTS. BLESS YOU AND I WISH YOU A SPEEDY RECOVERY.      
> LOVE, ROSE HYATT(formerly from the Salem, OR. group)
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thea Hardy
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 1:45 PM
> To: tmtranscripts at circuit1.teamcircuits.com
> Subject: [tmtranscripts] I'm back
>  
> I think this time it will stick.
>
> Was released yesterday from my third hospitalization in a month.
>
> Sequence:
>
> May 20 - initial surgery - 4.5 hours - much more extensive than
> anticipated
> May 26 home from hospital
> June 1 - visit to surgeon, okay but too weak. Several hours later,
> stomach flu ensued - violent vomiting. Mile's had had this three days
> earlier and Mark got it the same day I did.
> June 2 - still violent vomiting. Could not keep down anti-vomiting
>  medicine. Dr.s office said if it was still a problem in a week (!!)
> call back.
> June 8 - vomitting, going downhill, unable to move, care for self.
> Readmitted to hospital. Cat scans showed abdominal abscess (common but
> undesirable complication of abdominal surgery, especially major ones),
> Cat scan guided abscess drainage system installed.
> June 11 - released from hospital with drainage system. Still too weak,
> nausea intractible. No appetite.
> June 12-14 - over weekend, obvious deterioration.
> June 15 - readmission to hospital - serious nausea, weakness, drainage
>  system failure. Treatment for above.
> June 18 - released from hospital - still some possible drainage system
> problems - had to have suturing and repair same day, then hope.
> Appetite finally established. Bowel system finally working fully and
> correctly for first time post-op, energy much better, though walked
> like old lady without a walker - every which way stagger
>
> Today - have gone overnight, increased in strength and ability to move,
> drain wound clean and uninfected after repair (for the moment), food
> intake good. Able to sit here and type this much (tho not much more).
>
> From the end of May to now - spiritual experience? Survival mode.
> Contact primitive but there. Just hanging on. No earth-shattering
>  insights except to say, it looks like I have survived and can  
> gradually
>  move forward. This has been an incredible ordeal with extreme pain,
> misery, exhaustion, beyond anything I would want anyone to ever have to
> go through.
>
> But hopefully, I am now on the other side to the recovery phase at last
> - weeks late, but here. They have said this will not be a quick fix.
>
> Am still willing to ascend.
>
> There is a way that such an ordeal affects priorities and viewpoints on
> a lot of things. No time for frills. I doubt not that I will emerge
> altered from all of this. Just too soon to say how. I do see that a lot
> of things we spend efforts on appears to be sheer waste. Maybe I will
> change my mind.
>
> Thanks for the love and support.
>
> Love,
>
> Thea
>
>
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