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[cnelsoniii]

Doug and Terry, Good news and congrats to both of you. This is such great news.

[Grymmjakk]

Nice to hear such good news Doug ! both of you keep up the good work

[klcarroll]

Doug;

It's great to hear about Terry's progress!

I salute two very brave people!!

*

[doug.d]

I received a gloating SMS from Terry whilst at work today which said: "Guess where I am?"

When I guessed wrong, this was the answer: "FREEEEEE!!! "

She'd gone on a major shopping trip, including a major shopping centre, solo, in her own car!

I guess that's about the last major milestone obliterated.

[HW3]

Congratulations to both of you, it is truly a miracle how far Terry has come in such a short time.

[Celeon999]

[Messervy]

I only hope that Terry got through this terrible ordeal with one thing on her mind - "It was worthed after all".

I remember you saying how she gave up and at that instance I came to an ethical divergence.
I had experienced similar dilemma not so long ago and I was very much aware I could have made a different decision back then.

A decision which from my current viewpoint seems far more appropriate that the one I took, burdened with inexplicable amount of love and hampered with inability to differentiate between necessity and selfishness.

I'll drink to both of you tonight.

[Ant__.]

I'll second that Messervy. I'll raise a glass or three to you both too!

[doug.d]

Just a short status report for those whom I see by the numbers are still reading this thread.

Alas, the solo shopping trip I posted of above was the 1st and the last to date. I made sure we got the anti-flu injection before winter set in, to keep the biggest, baddest bugs at bay, but a minor one got through. The effect on me was negligable, maybe blew my nose a bit more often and snored a little louder but that was it.

The effect on Terry was alarming thanks to her anti-rejection drugs, and she's been really sick, not eating and throwing up when she does. Most worrying is that it went into her lungs making it very hard to breathe and she's been coughing up gallons of mucous. Just to make her life really ****, the coughing fits broke (or perhaps re-broke), 3 ribs and the pain pretty much stopped her in her tracks.

The doc added more meds to her collection and the nurse, still coming 3 times a week to change her wound dressing (yup, they still haven't healed), brought along an electric nebuliser and a supply of cortizone sachets.

It peaked last week and we were seriously contemplating re-hospitalisation, but thankfully she started to come out of the dive. Today, apart from the rib pain, she's been quite perky and together we watched the Springboks get beaten by the Aussies and Ferrari get bumped off pole position.

She has so many meds that we dispense from the dining room table. I've taken to managing her meds and wrote out a 'what-when-how many' list 'cause it's become impossible to remember them all. Needless to say, we haven't been able to eat at the table, nor have I been able to get the top off and play some pool for ages.

For interest sake, here's a pic of her monthly meds:

[Ant__.]

Hi Doug and Terry.

Thanks for the update, always good to hear from you about Terry - she is as much part of this community as you are.

Damn those little bugs eh? They get everywhere eh?!

That said, being positive, even having contemplating going back to hospital you haven't had to so far, so that's a good thing. Watching sport on TV together must be a good thing too.

Cling onto those positive things Doug, and wish Terry all the best from us for getting over this latest hurdle.

I'm confident you'll have that table top to yourself again and be shooting pool in no time. Hell, we'll all come over and we'll have a knockout match eh? Terry can be the adjudicator!

Salutes to you both.