valB Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Excellent news and best wishes to you both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vervialle Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I hope Cooperlola progresses well, there really is a lot of love on this forum going by the posts,I am sure Cooperlola will be both astonished and very touched by everyones concern.Best wishes to you both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Driver Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm just looking forward to the party that Coops is going to throw for us all once she's sorted....................especially her new barbecue novelty routine where she makes all her newly acquired treble-jointed bits wiggle.......[:-))][:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Hi I have only just found this thread( I must read all the sections in future) and I am so sorry to hear of her nasty accident but am equally relieved to find that she is making good progress, best wishes to you both.xxxLilly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Now every day everyone is happy to hear about Deb's good news!Courage !!Et bon rétablissement !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 [quote user="Frenchie"]Now every day everyone is happy to hear about Deb's good news!Courage !!Et bon rétablissement !! [/quote]Superbly put, I echo the sentiment. Here's to a newly re-established Coops ...Sue [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 post deleted as somehow I posted twice ...not ever happened to me before ...grumble, grumble, mutter, mutter ...Sue [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola2 Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 My 11th visit, two weeks after she was admitted to hospital, and I’ve at last got a certificate showing the injuries, which are far more numerous than even I had understood. E.g., I thought 3 right ribs broken, whereas this diagnosis says nos 1-9! There are lots of other damaged bits listed, which shows how wonderfully thorough an A&E unit can be. Deb’s breathing has improved in 24 hours, with her oxygen intake now up to 97-98, instead of the 91-92 that kept causing alarms yesterday. This is probably down to clearing more muck off her chest. Not a nice process, but she’s good at it, evidently. Again, I fed her apple compote, but had to wait outside for over an hour, while the doctor and head nurse decided how to overcome some problem. I think one of the feeds or monitors has not been working well, and it has been moved from her right shoulder to her neck, making her marginally less mobile in bed. Her hands, increasingly clear of bandages, are very swollen, as an allergic reaction to something, so she cannot hold a book or turn the pages, sadly. This is frustrating the poor thing, I think.I’m having two days off the road to Rouen, being at CPAM (health services) in Le Mans tomorrow, and having the Skoda serviced Friday. Unless there is dramatic news, my next report will be Saturday, therefore.I would upload a pic of Deb in her cot, taken this afternoon, if anyone can tell me how to. I don't see an instant method onscreen. Ditto, I am prepared to upload a copy of Deb's diagnosis, minus all details of hospital and doctor, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Thank you for all the news once again Ian. It looks as if they have taken really good care of Deb at Rouen. Out of the tunnel and into the sunshine now. [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Send me the pics and text via email Ian and I'll upload the pic etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graye Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 If you go onto whatever you use to play around with your photos on your computer, firstly cut them down to a maximum of 700 pixels wide if landscape and 700 pixels deep if they are portrait. Then go onto something like photobucket (you'll probably need to create an account) and upload the pictures there. Once you have them on photobucket you can look at the various options under the pictures and then click on the one which begins IMG. This will copy the link which you can post into your mailing. I suspect there might be some more concise instructions on how to do this if you search the site but this usually works for me!Glad about the ongoing good news by the way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Great news Ian, definitely a sharp corner turned and the winning line in site. Thinking of you both and sending very best wishes JanPS Talking of photos better not mention the one in the mini dress [6] It is lovely though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Oh yes, I know the one.....great legs!Come on, Coops, we want to see those legs again! You'd be back on them soon, I'm certain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola2 Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 Cooperlola is being moved out of Reanimation Chirurgicale (Intensive Care)today, so I infer they're pleased with progress! More on that later, I hope. A lady at the hospital rang me to tell me - prefacing her identity and remarks with "nothing to worry about". A genuinely social service! The hospital have been truly wonderful to date.For those living in France - I attended CPAM today to get our 2007 earnings etc noted. I played the sympathy card by showing an image of Deb in her cot yesterday. Despite my relatively poor French, we got along well, the lady helped me fill in the bits I hadn't grasped, and took the certificate and bulletin d'hopitalisation. We've never found the CPAM people other than helpful, but the orders they get from above sometimes defy logic. Last year, after filling in all the forms and delivering them to CPAM in person, we all seemed to get a letter saying they'd received nothing! I'd like to see someone sacked for that sort of cockup - but no-one gets sacked here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebaynut Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 [quote user="cooperlola2"]Cooperlola is being moved out of Reanimation Chirurgicale (Intensive Care)today, so I infer they're pleased with progress! [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 As Deb knows only too well, and as you yourself have found Ian, the CPAM orders that filter down from above are often less than expertly thought out and woefully late in arriving. I'm glad that you got the CPAM stuff sorted, and ecstatic that Deb is being moved out of intensive care. Perhaps it is now time to start thinking about quizzing Deb on her DVD want list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 This is truly wonderful. So, officially, she is no longer critically ill.I'm so happy for you both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Brilliant news, Ian. [:D] She'll be back before you know it. Though I don't suppose you'll miss your Rouen treks. How's m-i-l doing? [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola2 Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 One step forward, two steps back. Deb is indeed in another ward, where I have just tried to ring her, to check details etc. When I got through, she told me she has started a major panic, because she may have brought an infection with her. I assume there is the hospital equivalent of a coalmine canary spluttering away somewhere. She will let me know.MIL rang Deb while the Doc/Head Nurse debate was under way yesterday, so I was kept waiting outside longer than needed. Deb was fuming about it! When I got home I rang MIL to tell her about the improved oxygen levels etc, but she had other people with her and was too busy to talk to me. I haven't heard from her since. That's what makes her insufferable - she really is only looking for entertainment. In Malta, early-teen Deb was required to be her mother's companion at all times - except when MIL had a boyfriend around, (this was when the Royal Navy still had a major base in Malta, so chaps were not in short supply, one imagines) when Deb could stay out all night. When the elder daughter died, it was all about poor Dorothy having lost her daughter, not about poor Helen who'd lost her life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 Hi Ian... your description of Deb and her injuries sound so dreadful... obviously no lorry is going to get in Debs way though! So glad that things seem to be moving forward and she is making progress... you're both in our thoughts as usual... even my 9 year old is asking after her each day now! [:D]MIL sounds like a right cow! obviously the charm, care, brains, humour etc skipped a generation and went straight to Deb! [:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 So glad to hear Deb is moving out of intensive care - but such a shame MIL is being such an insensitive prat. We're thinking about you and sending our very best to you both.Kathie & family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiley Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 I haven't been on the forum for a while and just picked up on this thread. I'd like to offer my best wishes to you both. I hope that Deb's recovery continues to go well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola2 Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 Spoke to Deb this morning by phone – she is now able to answer her own calls! She apologised for getting in a panic yesterday – the only infection is a minor urinary one. As she’d said she’d come back to me, and I still haven’t understood the extra extension number I’ve been given, I didn’t want to disturb the hospital if she had indeed been at the centre of something nasty. She found she couldn’t dial out, so we were each waiting for the other to ring! Surgeons have chatted to her about getting her going again, and they are proposing a tough regime of physiotherapy, taking 4-6 weeks, at Rouen – but then she’d be able to come home! Realistically – things always take longer than you hope – she might be back in time for my 60th birthday, on November 12th. You can imagine I would view that as a pretty nice present! I hope to visit her tomorrow, and will then have all the info needed for others to visit if they wish. Cards etc that people have kindly sent will be going with me, I hope. Deb is in a private room with tv & cupboard space for clothes etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekJ Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Thinking of you both. You take care of yourself as well, you'll be no use to Deb if you get too exhausted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Great news, Debs is coming on leaps and bounds and by the sound of it will soon be doing leaps. She is strong and determined, I'm sure she will be home for your birthday and what a party that will be [:D]Take care & keep smiling.Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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