What's THIS: "Keeping Up With 'The Chordies' " Or What? LOL (Page 1 of 2)

Our thoughts are with your beloved wife, Bill. It does seem that a lot of Chordians are getting hit with health issues lately, but keeping up  in this manner isn't a good thing. Get well quick, Mrs. Strummerboy!

hope  she  is  ok  bill

Bill - you take good care of her! 

Dondra, get better quickly!  Take care of yourself for a change, and take advantage of the time away from chores.  With a few sticky notes on Bill's forehead, I'm sure he can get a few of your jobs around the house done (well, in typical man fashion though, you may have to remind him there are sticky notes ON his forehead).

  Bill - those are not shots at you because of your medical history either - those are purely gender digs.   

Seriously though, I call an official stop to all this hospital bologna right now.  Chordians belong hugging guitars, not getting stabbed with IV's.  Get better ya'll!

Thinking of both of you and wishing you all the best.

Criminy.

Good juju y'all's way, Bill.

Quick Update: The meds never did get her back into a normal sinus rhythm (regular heart-beat), so this morning she was "cardioverted", which is a fancy term for shocking the heart back into normal rythm.

It worked, but i was plenty worried. Another name for cardioversion is "defibrillation" which is what you do if someone has a true heart attack. You hear the docs yell "clear" and then you see those paddles.

Now however, this procedure has been "refined" and it isn't so dramatic as what you see on tv. She's anesthetized, and a cardiologist administers the procedure and he does this pretty much on a regular basis all day for a lot of folks.

To explain further, I have been out of the medical field since early 2009 and what I described above (the dramatic - "CLEAR!" part) is the way it was done then. As a respiratory therapist, I was often asked to attend in order to manage the airway.

So, Dondra is fine, some new meds were ordered, others were stopped, and still some others had their dosages changed.

What is worrisome is that this time the cardiac IV didn't bounce her back into a normal rhythm and I am hoping that if she goes into A-Fib again, that the IV meds will work and that her heart muscle won't need shocking every time.

She thanks  all our friends for your thoughts, that "cute" hug above and prayers and wants Amy to know she has me on a pretty short leash as far as the chores are concerned.

Hopefully, she'l get to come home tomorrow, but when a new cardiac drug is ordered, it usually takes about three days to monitor the patient for adverse effects.

As for me, I need to catch up on some sleep, so our son Jason will be "standing watch" tonight.

Again, thanks and we love our Chordie friends very much!

Bill

Bill ... thanks so much for taking the time to give us all a detailed report. There are a lot of concerned souls amongst us, and we're glad some progress is being made. May you and Dondra be granted strength to heal & to endure.

I like the line about being able to hide your own Easter eggs, I do it with the car keys. Be sure to let us know the moment Dondra's out of hospital. Wishing both of you the best of luck.

you'd think as the wife of a drummer she'd have a sense of rhythm?   sorry bad joke, wishing your fine lady all the very best and yes we all seem to be coming down with something or other. be well my friend

phill and misses phill (ann)

I don't know much about much, but are they considering a pace maker at all?  That's the same thing they do, kinda, isn't it?  Hopefully the shock was enough to keep her ticker ticking right for a while anyhow.

Thanks for keeping us updated. Ya'll are in our thoughts.

Bill you are going too have too clean up all your candy and fast food wrappers before Dondra gets home.

And here is an example of a  wonderful guy caught in the act of thinking of others' welfare before his own. NELA my friend, how are you doing????

You know, every time I read and/or respond to one of your posts here, I think to myself, "Why haven't you met this guy face to face???"

So if it's okay with you and if I am not overstepping the bounds of going from internet friendship to the "real-life" kind, would this be okay?

Once you recover and feel much, much better perhaps we can have a 4-person mini-Chordfest of our own one weekend? SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) and I have not had a vacation since we remarried in May of 2009, and I mentioned to her nurses and docs, that it seems like we have to use our hospital time as our vacation!

Please continue to recover, improve and most of all, if there's anything we can do, let D and  I know, and it shall be done.

Your friend

Bill