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Another day down

We had a nice day at the mall and then the farmer's market. Kind of took Claire's mind off things while she and kiddo tortured and harassed me into buying a pair of jeans.$60!!!!! They couldn't even...

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it's here.

I just had the love of my life collapse crying in my arms. This is so incredibly scary even for someone without severe panic attacks, I just can't even imagine how my beloved feels right now.I think...

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The surgery

It didn't happen.Claire has severe anxiety attacks about medical procedures, requiring a xanex and a couple of days of preparing herself mentally to just get blood drawn.The surgeon and...

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Non-Surgery - followup

By request of the surgeon (who is extremely dismayed) I have sent him a 3 page letter detailing what happened, and CC'd the CEO of the hospital and the ethics board of the holding company (Tenet). I'll...

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Happy Birthday

to my best friend, soul mate, pain in the a.... ;)I love youFeed Test

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Dun dun duuun

Looking like try #2 is going to be early November, as soon as we can find which of the 2 remaining hospitals will in fact do as the surgeon recommends.On the plus side this time I have a new family...

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Trans-Blog Day for Obama

From the Stonewall Democrats - help the transgender community step up for Obama!"On Monday, September 29, we’ll be holding a special coordinated blogging day to harness the power of the transgender...

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Go Trans Community - Support Obama!

The Stonewall Democrats have a campaign going in the transgender community to raise money for Obama. We need to really dig deep and pledge at least $5 if only to show how many of us there are out here....

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Asking for community feedback on hospital experiences

If anyone in the TS community has had any experience being a patient at St. Joseph's hospital in Atlanta, would you please contact me?After a really bad experience (extreme disrespect and bad...

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Some things I have to share with you.

Some lighthearted election fun:You have to check out these buttons - I love them!And this:Feed Test

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Elections

Last night we saw Barack Obama elected as President. What an incredible night! There is hope now, with a Democratic majority in house and senate, and with Obama as our leader, that we will finally make...

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Claire is in surgery

For those of you following, Claire started her surgery to remove that damn 8cm tumor in her chest at at 8:05 eastern. I drove home to let dogs out, and cried the entire 25 minute drive here.I know why...

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Update

Surgery went well, but we ran into a snag in recovery. They had trouble getting her to shake off the anesthesia, and after trying Narcan to drop the pain meds off of her and trying everything else...

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Saturday morning

She's awake this morning, although she obviously can't talk with a breathing tube in. So she was finger spelling to me and kiddo, asking questions. Those big beautiful hazel brown eyes were all the way...

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The tube is out.

She's off the respirator. However, she's in a LOT of pain, since they made her cough deeply. Her surgeon was just in there checking on her.More later.AnnieFeed Test

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Scare of a lifetime

On the way home from hospital to take care of dogs. Kiddo was still at the hospital in waiting room. 8 miles out, phone rings, it's kiddo."Mom, you need to get back here.""Is something wrong?""Yes, mum...

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2:15 am sunday, update

Hi all, posting from the ICU. Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts. I'm in a calmer place now.They allowed me to spend the night in the ICU to act as Claire's anti-anxiety med. Kiddo is at home,...

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Coming to you live from the ICU...

Claire is responding well to the neosynephrine to raise her blood pressure and is tolerating the demerol nicely. Although she's not getting the amount of pain relief she would with morphine, she is...

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Monday morning update

So, we're still in the intensive care unit. We were supposed to get the chest tubes out and leave ICU on saturday to go to a regular room. It might happen today, but they aren't really sure...

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Happy New Year everyone

Yeah I know it's late, so sue me. Wait don't, I have no money.So it's been a while but things have been crazy as you can imagine. The ribs are healing and almost no pain at all for a couple of weeks...

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