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Rusty

Rusty

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Talked to Yangdu 10:30 AM PDT. Bill doing better, prob still in hospital another couple days. Put him in just in time. Cut open and drained infected area, put him on IV antibiotics, is responding well. Yangdu less scared this time but last but hospitals apparently scare her. I can relate. So call Bill, send email, etc. Rusty
 
Called Bill -

(775) 770-3388

Nurses Station answered and tried to hand the phone to Bill, but she'd turned her back on him and he was gone. She sent out a posse to chase him down and they rounded him up and corralled him in his room.

His side of the story is that I saw him Wednesday. He went to see the doctor on the leg Thursday, who put him on oral antibiotics. Thursday night/ Friday morning he got up and it was really swollen. Doctor told him in effect that Bill, you don't need to go to the hospital unless you want to keep that leg. They lanced it and drew off about 12 ozs of pus that had developed overnight.
Doctor sent sample to the national infectious disease control center or something or other, and it came back to give Bill an antibiotic the doc had never heard of. But he gave it to him and Bill says he can see the redness around the area shrinking. He wants out of the hospital now, but will stay as long as they tell him too, which looks like it might be Tuesday or Wednesday. So there's time to do email to him. He's under orders to either be up and walking around or in bed with leg raised. That's the sum of it.
 
Erm.

Looks like our Uncle dodged yet another bullet.

Guardedly optimistic, is that how you would describe the mood?

Mike


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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein
 
Bill is handling it pretty much that way. Yangdu doesn't feel as nervous as last time.

On the other hand maybe someone can explain this to me: the Careflight ( medevac ) helicopter overflew my house this afternoon and I later went for a drive and saw two deputies and a state trooper had blocked off the road to the dump. A kid had gone power skateboarding by holding onto a pickup driven by a "friend". And not holding onto the back, but further forward, so that when he fell the rear wheel of the pickup ran him over. I thought you needed a higher IQ than that to dress yourself in the morning. Shudder.

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I have spent a mere 28 years in this world, but they have taught me the truth behind this statement:

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Mike

PS and another: you cannot foolproof anything, for fools are too ingenious.

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein
 
Actually we all have moments of stupidity. Some people's moments just last longer. Of course there are the Darwin awards. An award given to those who most graciously remove themselves from the gene pool. Those are unique and profound moments of stupidity. Most of which took a lot of planning.

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Life is short, art endures.
 
I'm starting to see a disturbing pattern here. When I was out for Spring Break, Bill had his heart attack. I had a break for Easter, and Bill gets an infected leg. At this rate, I'm afraid of what will happen to Bill when I get out for summer vaction in a few weeks.
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Bob

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Nah, the incidents seem to come within 48 hours of my stopping by the HI cantina and stage stop. But if you want to claim you're the jinx, I'll be more than happy to let you have the honor.
 
No matter the cause, I'm back and nurse who dropped by today said I'm doing fine in every quarter. She watched as I dressed my own wound and gave me an A. I think they are trying to see just how much it takes to kill old Uncle Bill and are finding it harder to do than they thought.

It ain't over till it's over.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
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