[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

OUCH!! Mine is caused from Plaques bi-laterally (caused from my service disability) it is all a vicious cycle.

You have been so wonderful, your help is GREATLY appreciated.

When you are this TAXED with worry, all help is like a light at the end of a long dark tunnel. As you know, you can't even think straight at times like this.

I have even copied and pasted yours and msmagoo's advice to Beach_babe in freepmails.

Thanks for being so special.

I'm outta here. :o)

God Bless!!!

[Beach_Babe]

The calvary has arrive and her name is Claudia! She speaks well, presents herself professionally and knows the right questions to ask. She said walking into the hospital felt like going through a time warp back to the 1950’s. She’s an oncology nurse and works in the most modern facilities.

Marilyn’s doctor told me via phone this morning that Marilyn could leave by today or tomorrow, then he met Claudia. Discharge has now been postponed until tomorrow or Saturday. Now … at the 11th hour … he wants to bring in a neurologist. As Claudia says, he’s trying to cover his a$$. Marilyn has been lying in a hospital bed for 38 days, deteriorating because the HepC is not being treated.

The doctor also made me get ‘permission’ from our older brother in New York to release Marilyn to “Hospice at Home”. After talking to Claudia and learning about our plan he faxed his okay on a piece of paper with the letterhead from his job: Cornell University Medical Center. The staff looked twice at that. Little do they know he’s just the librarian there.

Marilyn’s glad Claudia is here, she got anxious when Claudia wasn’t in the room. Marilyn was pretty alert today, 'tho it’s so hard to understand anything she says. She’s ready to go with us… wants her pants and coat … wants to show us she can walk. Actually, she can’t sit by herself at this point in time.

Claudia looked over most of the charts … the ones they’d show her … and determined that the physical symptoms Marilyn has now are caused by the HepC and not the meds and was appalled that the hospital would let her just lie there. But, I guess their hands were tied too, if Shands wouldn’t accept her as a transfer, what else could they do?

I can’t wait to get her up to Shands!!! Maybe they won’t be able to help her, but I’d never forgive myself if we didn’t try. We ‘hypothetically’ had to tell the case manager what was going on. She was concerned that we were planning to take such a young woman home to die. Maybe she thought it was better that Marilyn just stay there and die???

Hey, guys, could you muster up a couple of prayers for Claudia? She has to go to a settlement hearing tomorrow. After twenty-seven years of marriage she’s going through a bitter divorce with a man who would rather kill her than give her anything. Last time he came after her with an axe. She is armed constantly now-a-days.