Throwback (Dennis & Saya) Thursday: You Sleep, I’ll Take Watch

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Picture taken November 28, 2015

Wordless Wednesday: Now What Do I Do?

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Cross-Post: The Event, Part 5

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Lulu: “Dada has posted another entry in his series about his ruptured cerebral aneurysm in November.”
Chaplin: “This is Part 5, AKA ‘The One Where Dada Gets Discharged From The Hospital’.”
Charlee: “Ooh, that’s my favorite one.”
Lulu: “Mine too!”

Once I was well enough to leave ICU, the hospital transferred me to the “step-down unit”, also called Telemetry. (If you never heard of a unit called “Telemetry”, you’re not the only one.) I was moved by wheelchair on Saturday evening, schlepping most of my stuff—my blanket and pillow from home, the get well cards I had accumulated, the posters made by our friends’ daughter, pictures of the animals, and, of course, Substitute Charlee—on my lap. The rest of the stuff was transported in a bag by a courier, A.K.A. my wife.

via The Event, Part 5

Visiting Hours

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Lulu: “What’s the first thing you’re going to do when we get to Kosmo’s house, Chaplin?”
Chaplin: “I’m going to wash off all this troll ear wax. What about you?”
Producer Smurf: “You smurf the least smurfy airline ever. What kind of airline doesn’t smurf seats for its customers?”
Mouse: “This isn’t an airline and you’re not a customer. You just climbed aboard uninvited.”
Spicoli: “Boy that turtle sure gets around.”

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Caturday Matinee: Higher Ground

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Throwback (Dennis) Thursday: Chin Pillow

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Picture taken September 24, 2018

Wordless Wednesday: The Face of Contentment

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Cross-Post: The Event, Part 4

Posted on February 11, 2020 by

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Lulu: “Dada has posted the next installment of his series from when he was in the hospital.”
Chaplin: “Hey, look, Charlee, Substitute Charlee is back.”
Charlee: “There is no substitute for me!”

I was in the ICU for a total of nine days while they kept my blood pressure very tightly controlled and checked me daily for vasospasms. (They got a concerning doppler reading one time, so off I went with Substitute Charlee for another CT scan; it did show vasospasms were occurring, but I remained asymptomatic, and scanned clean the next day.) My cousins and a few friends continued to drop by to keep me company, which was nice, and I had a series of terrific ICU nurses to take care of me. After a few days in ICU they decided to take out my IV and put in a subclavian PICC line, so they could administer medications and draw blood without having to stick me all the time. That was a relief, although the process of getting it put in was far from fun. Once the PICC line was there I mostly forgot about it; funny what you can get used to when you have to, and when the alternative is multiple jabs with sharp pointy objects.

via The Event, Part 4

All’s Weird That Ends Weird

Posted on February 9, 2020 by

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Producer Smurf: “I can’t believe you were the one smurfing all this mischief, Papa Smurf!”
Papa Smurf: “Well you know, it gets boring in the mushroom village sometimes. And I would have smurfed away with it if not for you meddling cats.”
Producer Smurf: “Why did you smurf most of your pranks on me? Is it because you smurf I have the best sense of humor?”
Papa Smurf: “Well not really, no.”
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Caturday Matinee: Speaking in Tongues

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Throwback (Saya) Thursday: Self-Serve

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Picture taken May 8, 2016

Wordless Wednesday: In The Bag

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Crosspost: The Event, Part 3

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Lulu: “Our Dada has posted Part 3 of his series about his aneurysm over on his blog!”
Charlee: “Is this the post with the HBO words?”
Lulu: “This is the post with the HBO words.”
Chaplin: “I think there were HBO words a lot of the time all this was going on …”

As noted in previous installments, I spent a lot of time on Thursday and Friday being unconscious or semi-conscious, and I wasn’t enjoying it very much. When I had been passed out in the living room on Thursday, and for the next several days after that, every time I fell asleep, I experienced very unusual dreams.

via The Event, Part 3

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