Half your country hates you. The rest of the world wants to burn you in effigy. If anyone thinks it's so easy let them try it. Idiots will try.
Posted on 12/05/2008 6:15:53 PM PST by silent_jonny
Not watch the news :) Any time I see "that one" I feel sick, so it's best that I avoid all news channels.
Hi there :)
And I suspect a great many more people will miss him after he leaves office.
You have a nice weekend too!
Half your country hates you. The rest of the world wants to burn you in effigy. If anyone thinks it's so easy let them try it. Idiots will try.
Hi, LUV! You’re welcome :)
I’ve been lurking on these Day in the Life Threads.
President Bush is a better man than me. To say this is not an easy job would be the understatement of the millenium.
Happy to have you on the Dose. And I agree, being president is not an easy job. It might be the worst job there is.
All I know is that me and my family have NOT been blown up by foreign enemies. I got to keep the fruits of my labor thanks to President Bush’s tax cuts. We have 2 young SCOTUS justices picked by him.
I won’t get into the laundry list of disagreements. This is a place to thank him.
Thank you GW for your honorable service to your country.
I wish you a happy and peaceful post-Presidency.
May you make a more obscene amount of money than Clinton did on the lecture circuit and in your books.
Thanks sj. Who are they going to hate now??
Pray for W and Our Troops
BTW, I feel better. Drank 2 bottles of Gatorade. So, maybe it was just electrolytes or whatever. Have had them before but forgot what the dr. said for me to do if I had them again. Did not do him any good to tell me!!!!
Very well stated. We are going to miss him far more than even we know at this time. Just wait!!!
Thank for the dose Jonny - sorry I have not been around much lately but I find when I get in from the hospital after I have eaten I crash out until the early hours.
UPDATE ON DAD
Result of CT scan showed no bleed but ECG did not show the irregular heart beat had returned which maybe what he thought was a TIA. They have therefore decided to restart his blood thinner as of last night. They will check his blood again today and then decide the daily strength yesterday they started him off on a booster dose. I suspect they will check it daily or every other day for a few days and then probably once a week once they have it to the level they want it.
He finds it hard being in a chair for 4 hours a day with his back but they do not want to use certain pain killers after the frog and birds incident but I suspect once his blood is thinner this may be less.
They use a special machine now to get him in and out of bed which means he is actually standing which they are pleased about and he is himself seems to be pleased that he can do this.
The may areas for concern and prayer are his sleeping at night and eating. Last night when I rang the ward at midnight he still had not gone to sleep I briefly spoke to him and tried to relax him but again his so uncomfortable as well as uneasy at night that he finds it hard to sleep. Because of his TIA history and so soon after a major op they do not want to give him sedatives at night so have taken him off the 2 tablets he used to take at night at home.
The other area is eating, because they have put so many rules on his eating and drinking because he was very nervous and had a few coughing fits after drinking. They are insisting he has to be at 90 degrees, no straws, no spoons (drinking), spouted cup only a normal glass or mug. This is so liquid does not go too far back into the throat before he swallows. Personally I do not think he has a problem but I think because of all of this he is nervous. At home he often coughs after eating or drinking certain things but I suppose they have to be doubly careful in hospital that he is safe. On the other hand he can swallow large round flat tablets and capsules so to me I cannot see there is much wrong with the throat/windpipe etc.
I did manage to get half a plate of pureed fish and white sauce down him yesterday plus 3 spoonfuls of pureed chicken casserole and a bowl of stewed apple and custard. I also gave him half a cup of the resource drink meal replacement. Today I am going to take in his favourite dessert Banana delight which is packet desert similar to your pudding mix which you mix with milk and whisk until thick. He loves this on trifle so I will take half a packet worth in today and the rest tomorrow which if he eats it will get about 250 calories into him out of the 800 we need to as they have now reduced the overnight calories to 800 in attempt to get to get hungry and consume the other 800 normally.
I am going to have breakfast now then ring the hospital and then go up the garden and see to the birds before going up the hospital for the day.
Once again thanks for all your thoughts, prayers and support
Love
Eleanor
Could not sleep so am up at nearly 5 am. Glad you posted. Please keep us posted. Brain is not working this early in the morning although I know lots of people get up this early every morning but today is Saturday.
Keep him eating. Sorry he is having trouble sleeping. That is common in a hospital though unless he had problems sleeping at home too. If that is the case, then it is no fun at all.
Thoughts and prayers going your way.
Good for you, snugs! You need that private, serene moment.
Continued prayers.
Thanks very much for adding the text of this beautiful speech by President Bush. I have bookmarked this thread.
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President Bush: I believe the day will come when people from Cairo and Riyadh to Baghdad and Beirut, to Damascus and Tehran, live in free and independent societies, bound together by the ties of diplomacy and tourism and trade. The day will come when al Qaeda and Hezbollah and Hamas are marginalized and then wither away, as Muslims across the region realize the emptiness of the terrorists’ vision and the injustice of their cause.
I’m glad to hear your dad is making progress! Continued prayers for his recovery.
Neat to read that Your Dad is eating all those foods You listed!
:)
Prayers throughout!
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