GMB02 Update

Thank you for the update. (2.00 / 13)

Small improvement is better than hopeless.  Thoughts and prayers to GreenmountainBoy and commonmass and their families.

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by: janmtairy @ Fri Jan 25, 2013 at 14:36:44 PM UTC

what you said. n/t (2.00 / 11)

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by: raina @ Fri Jan 25, 2013 at 14:46:27 PM UTC

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commonmass's update: (2.00 / 13)

UPDATE: We have left the hospital for the night. He is stable. Bill in Portland Maine, Common Sense Mainer and our other friend Bill came to visit tonight. GMB02 is a little better, in that he is now putting out more fluid than he is taking in though he is still on dialysis. That he is peeing is important. They have been able to turn the ventilator down a bit. There is still not a lot of long term hope, but it is a positive development. I will post another diary after the team rounds in the morning. Thank you to all of you who have sent such loving and healing and kind words, thoughts, prayers and energy.

He posted that as an update to his earlier diary; I copied here since it has a little more info.  Keeping them in my thoughts and prayers today.

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by: Avilyn @ Fri Jan 25, 2013 at 15:14:10 PM UTC

Thanks to you both for the updates. eom (2.00 / 10)

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by: Portlaw @ Fri Jan 25, 2013 at 15:55:04 PM UTC

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Thanks Avilyn, I missed that. (2.00 / 9)

"Pin your money to your girdle and don't talk to strangers."  My Grandmom's advice when I went away to school.  I don't wear a girdle and have never met a stranger.  Sorry Grandmom!

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by: nannyboz @ Fri Jan 25, 2013 at 16:02:49 PM UTC

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No problem. (2.00 / 10)

And Bill is currently active over at GOS, so hopefully there will be a fresh update shortly.

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by: Avilyn @ Fri Jan 25, 2013 at 16:39:14 PM UTC

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Thank you. n/t (2.00 / 4)

Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

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by: sricki @ Fri Jan 25, 2013 at 21:56:29 PM UTC

Newer news from just a little while ago: (2.00 / 1)

Oh, dear. I really needed this levity today, (51+ / 0-)
Markos. Thanks. BTW, for any who are interested, my partner is marginally better. Still on the vent and dialysis, but they have been able to turn the vent down some and he's showing some signs of knowing what is happening, though he is still in a medically induced coma (they have reduced the drip on that).

We are cautiously optimistic at this time. His twin brother and nephew will be with me here in Portland for a while.

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Wer kämpft, kann verlieren. Wer nicht kämpft, hat schon verloren.
                       - Bertolt Brecht

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by: Moozmuse @ Sat Jan 26, 2013 at 19:20:07 PM UTC