14:50 – Barbara had surgery scheduled for 0545 this morning. We left here at 0400, drove down to Winston, and got her checked in about 0530. She was to have gone into surgery at 0700, but didn’t go in until about 0750. The surgery ran 90 minutes or so, as best we could tell, and then they put her in recovery for another 90 minutes. They finally got her to her room about 11:15. Frances and Al sat with me until Frances had to leave about 10:30 to get to work. Al and I sat with her in her room until she shooed me out around noon to get home and take care of Colin, who’d been on his own for eight hours by that point. The surgeon told us that everything had gone extremely well, that she expected a quick full recovery, and that Barbara wouldn’t be limited physically or in diet. The physician said they were keeping her overnight just to make sure she was fine before she left. Al is going to go back to the hospital tomorrow morning, pick Barbara up, and bring her home. I told him that I’d be happy to drive back down to Winston tomorrow morning to pick Barbara up, but he insisted on bringing her home himself. I think he wants to check out the new rototiller. I told him that he was of course welcome to borrow it any time he needs a larger tiller, but he said that it was probably too large for the jobs he needs to do.
As soon as I got home and fed and walked Colin, I got started on processing unfilled orders. There are currently six kits waiting in the shipping queue to go out tomorrow morning.
Glad to hear about the good results for Barbara.
So does this mean that you drive back to Winston for anything serious ? My parents live down the coast from us and drive back to the Houston Medical Center for anything (about a 130 mile drive each way).
Yes, good news on Mrs. RBT. I don’t think med procedures of any kind ever start at the time they say.
For most medical stuff, including the ER and serious issues we have Northwest Medical Center three miles up the road. I was just there this morning to learn new PT exercises for my back/sciatica and have a couple appointments for same every week for a while. (Veterans Choice Program) For really serious stuff, there’s the UVM/Fletcher-Allen Med Center 30 miles down the interstate.
We had steady rain most of the night and up until an hour ago; everything is soaked. Sunlight now and I’ll be off again in a couple of hours to learn new chit about bicycles.
Here’s to a full recovery for Mrs. RBT. I’m glad things went well.
@rbt, that’s good news.
105 F and 38RH for ‘feels like’ 116F here today. I’ve been hiding inside, poking at radios, watching youtube videos (radios) and doing ebay stuff.
I have one item to ship today, so I have to go out and do that. Freaking HOT out there.
nick
105 F and 38RH for ‘feels like’ 116F here today.
@nick, you need to move out here to the sticks. We are 93 F and 50% RH here outside the Land of Sugar. It gets nasty there in the heat island known as Houston.
https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=KSGR
Oh, I’d love to be further out, with some acreage and some outbuildings….
not gonna happen soon though.
n
Barbara doesn’t have a high opinion of the local hospital, although it’s a regional medical center with a good reputation. They do ship patients with serious conditions via ambulance or chopper down to WFU Baptist Medical Center in Winston, which is a world-class hospital. I don’t think they have many surgeons at the local hospital. They do have surgeons in various specialties who come up here once a week or once a month, depending. That’s actually where Barbara met the surgeon who performed the procedure for her today. It was a routine colonoscopy and Barbara reacted very badly to one of the anesthesia drugs. I think after that she won’t trust the local place for much. I have no problem with it, not that I’m likely to ever be admitted to a hospital.
73 here right now and dropping to 61 tonight, lol. Nice breeze, too. The nearest “heat island” would be our so-called Queen City, Burlap, thirty miles south of here. And the nearest “cold island,” literally, is Moh-ree-all, seventy miles north, which is FREEZING in the dead of winter, when a lotta people use the underground part of the city and its tunnels and shops and the women all wear fur coats with fur hoods. May as well be in Moscow.
This burg is at pretty near the same latitude as Bangor, Maine, where the young OFD was stationed for six months of a bitter cold winter, right after USAF security police training and just before multiple deployments to SEA.
Actually, I would like to move further out to Wharton or El Campo. Tough to find a nice place already built out there though. Here is a nice 32 acre place south of El Campo for $236K (gotta build your own buildings):
http://www.har.com/00-hwy-71/sale_19590331
“…not that I’m likely to ever be admitted to a hospital.”
Knock on wood. My late grandpa Eric hated hospitals and said to avoid them if at all possible.
Where I go for PT is an annex, and the whole plantation there is all futzed up with new construction, parking lots, unpaved roads and driveways, and construction vehicles and personnel all over the place. And the main drag into downtown is also futzed, thanks to new sidewalks being installed, widening of the road there, and a new hotel being built next to the new state gummint building parking garage.
Hmmmm….maybe they’re getting ready to take in a few thousand musloid refugees…
A lot more people have died from going to hospitals than have died from not going.
@nick, if you still want to live somewhat close in, here is a five acre complex with a 7,000 ft2 mancave XXXXXX workshop. Only $1,100,000. No step for a stepper!
http://www.har.com/5211-fm-2218/sale_61756849
I like the master shower, looks like you can get a party going on in there.
Wow, that’s got ‘compound’ written all over it. Too bad it will be surrounded by new development like what is just east of it in a few years.
I’m betting the local infrastructure isn’t set up for all those big undeveloped lots to turn into subdivisions….
Still, nice!
nick
Dad wishes Barbara a speedy recovery and hopes that you do not get any surprise third-party bills.
WRT bad reactions to anesthesia: there seems to be a lot of that going around because the anesthesia groups are going cheap and are trying to cut corners for the simple procedures like colonoscopies and endoscopies and any other “day surgeries”. It ends up causing problems during the procedures and people end up spending the night, or more, in the hospital because of surgical complications related to the anesthesia problems. Too bad the public cannot trust the so-called medical professionals anymore.
The public be damned, all hail Obuttwad.
I’m betting the local infrastructure isn’t set up for all those big undeveloped lots to turn into subdivisions….
Sure it is. That is what the MUD (Municipal Utility District) is for. The subdivision developer creates a MUD which proceeds to borrow money, build roads, drill water wells, put in water lines and sewer lines, put in electrical lines and natural gas lines, put in the parks and nature trails, and put in a sewage treatment plant.
And I forgot the most important part, pay back the developer for the use of his land for roads and infrastructure ! And the best part is that the developer controls the MUD until at least half of the lots have been sold.
Wow. I gotta see this by hook or by crook; looks like we used to say…wicked pissah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7e6gLht6OQ&feature=youtu.be
Try and find it here in the Northeast, though.
OK, Microsoft is going downhill. Usually, one could depend on them to be truthful. Well, the latest Visual Studio C++ compiler, 2015, claims to support Windows XP. In my experience, and in our poor users experience, it does not. We finally got a partially working by using a special compilation switch, fixing an include file, and adding 37 Win32 DLLs to the distribution. And now we are having random bugs on our test pc.
I am surprised Microsoft would bother at all having their latest version of Visual Studio support a sunset version of Windows.
Wow. I gotta see this by hook or by crook; looks like we used to say…wicked pissah.
That’s the doc I mentioned was playing at my favorite casino, but I wouldn’t go since Killary agents were probably waiting to snuff me afterwards.
I am surprised Microsoft would bother at all having their latest version of Visual Studio support a sunset version of Windows.
That is ok with me if they decided to sunset Windows XP out of Visual Studio. However, they make a point of saying that they support Windows XP in their Visual Studio 2015 advertising and doco. Very bad juju from a programming viewpoint.
We just dropped support for Windows 2000 Pro. But, we still have several customers on Windows XP. Plus, we are having to tell our users to install a hotfix for the system DLLs in Windows 7 x64. Since many of our customers use corporate PCs, it is difficult for them to install hotfixes since their PCs are so locked down by IT.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226
Yes, we are in DLL hell. It never went away, MS just hid it better.