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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] *sigh* OK, here's the thing. I don't know what to do - probably not what I'm about to, at any rate. In the past I've aluded to medical problems my wife has, but I didn't want to go into them because, well, it ain't none of your beeswax, like. Especially when I drew a lot of parallels with that of Rob's partnet Julie, whose ailments he seemed prone to drag out at the drop of a hat, and especially when losing an argument. Now, my wife has problems. Congenital rubella with all sorts of resulting problems. She got memnigitis while on holiday, viral, bacterial, I forget which, the really nasty one anyway. And she only has one kidney - the other one died and was removed about 7 years back. Her pregnancy wasn't easy (one of the reasons I didn't mention it at the time). But, her remaining kidney did well, all things considered, and has always demonstrated better-than-average performance. But since then we've been told, first that subsequent tests ruled out her ever having another child - you can imagine how that made us feel. Then we got told by another consultant that it would probably be OK - just as we were getting used to the idea of only having the one. Now another consultant has announced that recent tests show an alarming drop in kidney function, which require her to go one some special medication which can have some nasty side-effects (pregnancy while on them is a complete no-no, too) but will take some time to see if they affect the kidney's deterioration. Last night she told me that she has nightmares about dying, and daydreams/reveries of same, too. Leaving me and our daughter all alone. And I'm not sure what to do about it. I'm not good with death. When another Flareite told me of his mother's death, I wasn't really able to say anything that would have given much comfort (not that anything I said would have done much anyway, but that's not the point, to me at least) and that haunts me. I don't know how to tell her she's not going to die, especially when I'm in total denial about the idea anyway. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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