Comments on: This blog is on ‘pause’

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:38:09 +0000

Everyone at Ebling is wishing you well! I hope you’re feeling better soon.

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:29:31 +0000

You can’t really beat ‘general anaesthesia’ as an excuse to stop blogging

Wishing you a really speedy recovery!

By: Pat Erwin

Pat Erwin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:20:25 +0000

I hope all goes well; best wishes and God speed. Going under is always scary. I remember waking up after my wisdom teeth were removed many years ago. I actually asked the surgeon if he had to stand on my chest to get a good grip. He wasn’t amused.

We miss your eye on the developments – but take your time coming back. Too soon usually means backing up, starting over. I shared your experience with my brother who had “enjoyed” the same diagnosis — most of it needed to be deleted, but he sent his best wishes, and said it hurt like bloody h*ll.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:57:20 +0000

Greetings from Melbourne! I’ve been an inpatient many times, being a kidney transplant recipient. If you are in a general ward, chat to the other patients if you can. Talk to the volunteers (they might like you so much they visit regularly), watch the TV and read! Treat it as a self-rejuvenating stay. Most importantly – be cheerful!!

Catherine

By: Creaky

Creaky — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:21:50 +0000

David, I hope you are recuperating quickly and will be soon feeling much better! Think of all the comments you’ll get to read once you get back to blogging.

By: Nancy Howe

Nancy Howe — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:43:11 +0000

David – from all of your friends at CLRC…take care and get some rest. We’re all thinking of you and hope that you are better very soon.

By: Jane Blumenthal

Jane Blumenthal — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:35:15 +0000

I’ve only had one inpatient stay myself, but a lot of experience as a hospital visitor. Best advice: get well and check out as soon as possible.

Seriously, feel better soon!

By: Meredith

Meredith — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:54:36 +0000

OMG, I just saw your post (was out of town all last week)! I am so sorry you have to get surgery and I hope you’ll soon be feeling better. Please do take it easy though; often when you rush your recovery, you only end up making things worse (or at least make recovery take longer). Just like being a patron at a library, being a patient in a hospital can give you a great deal of perspective, though I wish it was something a bit more minor.

Hope you get well soon and I’ll be thinking of you.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:53:31 +0000

Ouch! Was hoping you’d get to avoid surgery on this one.

By: Reinhard

Reinhard — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:16:00 +0000

… and of course best wishes from across the Atlantic from sunny London. Tell us soon how well everything went, David. I had my last and only full anaesthesia 55 years ago: is one still asked to count, breath, count, breath, count so that the surgeons can see when the counting gets loopy they can start cutting? Reinhard