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Carole: So happy to hear Ted is doing OK. Will still keep you guys in our prayers. Barbara At 03:54 PM 9/10/99 -0700, you wrote: >Hi -- > >I'm saving all your messages so Ted can read them when he comes home. >Neurosurgeon says next Thursday -- maybe and hopefully. He will get the >line under his clavicle Monday and be on antibiotic therapy for three >months. The doctor changed the dressing and removed the drain today and >said everything looks good. Also removed the Foley catheter and told Ted he >could get up and walk to the bathroom, sit in a chair, move around a bit, >etc. His head no longer hurts to touch it. He probably doesn't have >shingles after all. Rather some sort of very nasty infection. They will do >a CT scan this afternoon to look at the brain again and also to look at the >sinuses to see if they can figure out how the organism got there in the >first place. They think maybe from the mastoid sinus on the right side. >Ted is complaining about having more tests done -- so he must be feeling >better. :-) Also an orthopedic surgeon will examine his right arm today. >After the paramedics put him on the gurney he started to complain of pain in >his right arm and can't move it a lot w/o pain -- such as trying to put food >into his mouth. This, of course, is a major problem!!! LOL! However he >managed to scarf down lunch as a lefty. > >Unfortunately they hadn't given him his Sinemet and Mirapex again when I got >there this morning. Supposedly no orders from his neuro?? I guess they >"disappeared" when he moved from intermediate care to ICU in the same >hospital??? Somewhat scary. > >So our saga continues ... thanks for listening. I guess this qualifies Ted >as sort of an "honorary" member of the Hole in the Head Gang??? :-) >Different surgery -- but he definitely got a hole in the head!!! > >Carole and Ted :-o > >