Author: Bill
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Home Sweet Home
There was a steady stream of doctors and nurses overnight last night, all checking on Annie to help ensure she’d be physically ready to go home today. Yesterday, it seemed, was all about guessing…er, experimenting with various drug combinations to get that right mix of pain meds accompanying a Minimum Level of Vomitus (apparently the…
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Alarming beds and other adventures
The alarms they put on hospital beds when a falling-risk patient gets up to go to the bathroom “unsupervised” are amazingly loud and annoying. We quickly discovered how to silence said alarm though, so score one for Team Holland! Beyond the traitorous bed, things are going reasonably well for Annie. She’s being an absolute trooper.…
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The surgeons have done their part
The waiting is the hardest part. It was hard for Annie to wait for today to arrive, yet the hardest for me was simply waiting for surgery to finally be over once it began. One can assume Annie had it worse. She prepared well for it however, with a couple of select treatments yesterday at…
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Hello? Is this thing on?
Hey friends, thank you for being along with us for this part of our journey. While Annie may post once in a while, most of the time I (Bill) will be writing the updates and hitting the Post button. If you don’t feel like you get enough email already and would like notification of new…