[gigi]

🙏

[Ellen]

Thanks for the update. I (& many others) continue to lift you & yours up. Love you.

[Nosce_Te]

Excellent to hear the surgery went well, Trish is an amazing woman her endurance & will are inspirational! Your vigilance is heroic Dana, please take care & know we are praying for you both for continued success on your healing journey. Sending 🤗& 🙏 to you both with love from our home to yours.

[WaywardSon]

Hey Dana. A tough road but the progress is very encouraging. Prayers are incoming. Do you have any local family helping you on hospital advocate duty?

[Dana Acker]

Yes our daughter and one of our sons are close by, and with us all the way. Our daughter makes sure the old man eats. The kids are more advocates for the hospital personnel; “Please don’t kill anybody Papa,” “Please don’t bring your gun to the hospital, Papa,” “No, you can’t cut the doctor, Papa.” 😉🤬☠️

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[SpotTheDog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcLs-nkmC2Q

[Dana Acker]

Good medicine! Blessings come in all shapes and sizes. Thanks, mucho!

[WaywardSon]

Happy to hear you have good company to help.

[Steve Ahle]

🙏 to Trish and you!

[BrodyDog]

Dana, Trish and you are in my prayers.

[Dana Acker]

Hey! The breathing tube is out!!! Trish didn’t wake up much today. She is still in the ICU, and probably will be for a couple of days. It is strange and not a little disconcerting to see the one you love in a big head bandage with “NO BONE” printed on the surgery side of said bandage. The collision of reality and surreality in the starkest of terms. Her blood pressure keeps dropping, so they’re giving Trish meds to bring it up. She won’t get out of the ICU until that stabilizes, and she is stable neurologically. They are saying that they expect her to be awake more tomorrow. At least Trish gets good care in the ICU. It’s just tragic that it takes a catastrophe to warrant decent health care. Another observation that I have noticed is that after two long stints in a month hanging out in the trauma ICU waiting room, I’ve seen no people who look like they have or come from money. Do the rich not get hurt? Do they never get spontaneous brain bleeds? Do they have separate ICU’s and waiting rooms? Are their’s stocked with Champagne and finger sandwiches, while our’s is stocked with undrunk World War II era surplus coffee and a pay snack machine? It’s weird….Everybody I’ve encountered in our ICU waiting room are salt of the earth working class folks. The level of their anxiety, sorrow and pain is profound. We all pray for one another, and keep tabs on each other’s loved ones. We try to shore up inevitable collapse due to stress and exhaustion. Day in and day out, living with one’s own private suffering is grueling enough, but to be surrounded on all sides by that of others is both comforting in the sense of being reminded that you are not alone, and discomforting in the sense of being reminded that there is horrible suffering everywhere. It’s relentless and it wears. It really does. But the thing that shines slivers of light in the darkest moments is when someone you’ve never met, and who is suffering as much as you walks up and asks,”How can I pray?” And when you pass that same someone in the hall on the way to the restroom or the drink machine, and they look at you with red, hollow eyes and say, “Praying for you and yours.” The lesson? Be especially kind to everyone you meet along your way; you never know what kind of hellscape they’re walking through. A smile and a kind word may just be what keeps them off the ledge. If for no other reason, that’s why we’re here. Thank you all for being here, and shoring Trish and I up. You’ll be my friends through eternity. I have tried to live my life in such a way so as to leave this life when it’s my turn to go, with as few regrets as is possible. I regret it is not possible at present to personally shake every one of your hands, and give every one of you a big bear hug. Be assured, I’ve done so in my heart. Thank you. Will keep everybody posted.

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[WaywardSon]

Hi Dana – That is great news. Those tubes are nasty and having that out is progress. Your ICU people observation reminds me some of the discussion we had here with “I am everyman, and I am no man”. We all become the lowest common denominator in these life situations; where our status or position means little and in this present moment we all have the unifying faith in a higher power to heal and a common goal of ensuring the best for those we care for and love. As you so aptly mention, kindness goes a long way and one should never forget to express it.

[Paige]

So happy to hear she made it through surgery. Many prayers for healing for Trish and continued strength to you, Dana 🙏

[gigi]

Thank you for the updates Dana. I hope you can feel our prayers. Stay strong

[lucky-c]

I can’t imagine what you are both going through, but I can pray for a positive outcome. My prayers to you both.

[Mimi17]

May the Lord provide His protection and healing strength to Trish; continued prayers for you both!

[delores.goetz]

🙏🙏 that Trish’s brain gets the needed rest to begin healing after her surgery. And praying that she is able to gain the strength need to keep her body healing itself. 🙏