From: Ginny Favers on
On 6/26/2010 8:53 AM, Sue/WDW1972 wrote:
> Gainesville??? Wow - I'll be there too, but not at the VA Hospital.
> I'm moving to Gainesville full time on Tuesday. Gainesville certainly
> has alot of choices for medical care, and I understand it's a good
> place to receive medical care. Best wishes for a full& the speediest
> possible recovery.
>
> Sometime after you I'll be *enjoying* my own surgical adventure, but
> not at the VA Hospital. I'll be at either N FL Regional Medical Ctr
> or Shands' cancer center. They'll be removing my breast, carving out
> a big chunk of my abdomen, using the ab tissue to form a new breast
> and then attaching it to my chest. After that I think there are 2
> more stages of additional (but less) work that'll need to be done.
> Ah, the price of staying alive....not fun, but necessary.
>
> On a more positive note, I booked Dec 10-12 to see Linda, not
> realizing it was the radp weekend! I'm always at WDW over
> Thanksgiving weekend, so the timing of radp just never works for me.
> But, this year I'll be cruising over Thanksgiving& the following week
> so Dec 10-12 will be my WDW "holiday" trip and I'm looking forward to
> seeing some old (in terms of having met before - not age) and new
> faces from here!
>
> Sue/WDW1972
>

Wow you guys, you are both having some major surgery. It's kind of
incredible that this is all possible, now, though. I'm a bit in awe of
surgeons. I once watched a whole open heart procedure on video -- well,
not the whole thing, only 45 minutes of it, edited down. But wow that
was amazing. It kind of reminded me of watching my highly skilled
seamstress Aunt doing her quilting/sewing projects, but with blood and a
beating heart!

~Amanda
From: Lisa Cubbon on
On 6/26/2010 8:53 AM, Sue/WDW1972 wrote:
> Gainesville??? Wow - I'll be there too, but not at the VA Hospital.
> I'm moving to Gainesville full time on Tuesday. Gainesville certainly
> has alot of choices for medical care, and I understand it's a good
> place to receive medical care. Best wishes for a full& the speediest
> possible recovery.
>
> Sometime after you I'll be *enjoying* my own surgical adventure, but
> not at the VA Hospital. I'll be at either N FL Regional Medical Ctr
> or Shands' cancer center. They'll be removing my breast, carving out
> a big chunk of my abdomen,

Can they guarantee you washboard abs too? Well, it might be a perk.

I know it will all go well for you, Sue.

Lisa
using the ab tissue to form a new breast
> and then attaching it to my chest. After that I think there are 2
> more stages of additional (but less) work that'll need to be done.
> Ah, the price of staying alive....not fun, but necessary.
>
> On a more positive note, I booked Dec 10-12 to see Linda, not
> realizing it was the radp weekend! I'm always at WDW over
> Thanksgiving weekend, so the timing of radp just never works for me.
> But, this year I'll be cruising over Thanksgiving& the following week
> so Dec 10-12 will be my WDW "holiday" trip and I'm looking forward to
> seeing some old (in terms of having met before - not age) and new
> faces from here!
>
> Sue/WDW1972
>

From: Steve Russo on
"Sue/WDW1972" <wdw1972(a)aol.com> wrote in message
news:1c47bfda-df3c-41b5-b3d4-c588c8b94d92(a)e5g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> Gainesville??? Wow - I'll be there too, but not at the VA Hospital.
> I'm moving to Gainesville full time on Tuesday. Gainesville certainly
> has alot of choices for medical care, and I understand it's a good
> place to receive medical care. Best wishes for a full & the speediest
> possible recovery.
>
> Sometime after you I'll be *enjoying* my own surgical adventure, but
> not at the VA Hospital. I'll be at either N FL Regional Medical Ctr
> or Shands' cancer center. They'll be removing my breast, carving out
> a big chunk of my abdomen, using the ab tissue to form a new breast
> and then attaching it to my chest. After that I think there are 2
> more stages of additional (but less) work that'll need to be done.
> Ah, the price of staying alive....not fun, but necessary.
>
> On a more positive note, I booked Dec 10-12 to see Linda, not
> realizing it was the radp weekend! I'm always at WDW over
> Thanksgiving weekend, so the timing of radp just never works for me.
> But, this year I'll be cruising over Thanksgiving & the following week
> so Dec 10-12 will be my WDW "holiday" trip and I'm looking forward to
> seeing some old (in terms of having met before - not age) and new
> faces from here!
>

Good lord! The best to you and Ed... may your recoveries be complete and
speedy.


From: John L on
Sue..... sending powerful, positive energy and prayers. Always keep
your mind's eye and your hearts desires toward your happy place. You
will find peace, contentment and joy when the doctors tell you that all
went perfectly well.

peace. john


Philippians 4:13

From: Keane on
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:32:43 -0400, JackM <notreal(a)earthlink.net>
wrote:

>meshmar wrote:
>> On July 12 I get admitted to the VA Hospital in Gainesville, FL. On the
>> 14th I am due to go in for some rather major surgery. The veins (not
>> arteries) feeding into my heart have decided to clog up (due to scarring
>> from pacemaker leads and the severe infection I had that required their
>> removal). Now the Surgeons are going to take the large veins from my
>> thighs; crack my chest and use the veins to shunt from my jugulars to my
>> right atrium. While they are in there, they are going to place 4
>> epicardial pacemaker leads (the kind that attach directly to the outside
>> of your heart); make a pacemaker pocket; and hopefully put in a new
>> pacemaker. They are also placing 3 additional temporary epicardial
>> pacemaker leads and running them to an external pacemaker. All in all,
>> it's not going to be a lot of fun and I could use some overflights by
>> Tinkerbell to stir up a little Magic ...
>>
>> Needless to say, I will be away from here for a while too.
>
>
>Aw damn, Ed. You just got back to us now this. It must be Keane's fault.
>Everything that goes wrong in RADP is only six degrees of separation
>from him. ;-)

Hey! If I didn't suspect you're right, I'd be offended!

>I don't pretend to understand everything you wrote about it but I can
>tell it isn't day patient kind of thing. PD, prayers and best wishes go
>out to you.
>
>Jack

They're using the spare parts in his leg to bypass clogged arteries
in his chest, and then start to challenge Steve Austin on how fast
he can set off a metal detector at the airport.

Well, that's what I got out of it. ;-)

Keane
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