Motley Moose – Archive

Just wanted to post a single diary to keep everyone updated on some community members from GOS, since there’s such a high crossover.

First – commonmass has a new diary about GMB02:

Update on GMB02’s Health Crisis – Hope and Change

They are working to wean him off of the ventilator using what is essentially a high-powered version of the CPAP people with sleep apnea use. In order to do that, they have had to “wake him up” from the deep sedation he was under. He knows me, and our priest, and his family, and he also knows he’s still intubated–which is not pretty to watch. However, they do have to “wake him up” to do this and there is hope that they can get him to an assisted rather than dependent breathing full-time in the next couple of days. His dialysis is less constant and his kidney and liver function is steadily improving. There is some (very common in ICU’s) staph pneumonia related to his intubation which is responding to treatment and his blood infection responded to treatment. He’s going to be in the hospital for a while, and his organs are beginning to function, but he’s not out of the woods.

Definitely better than we thought the situation was last week, but still a long road at this point.  

Second, Teacherken’s wife, Leaves on the Current, is also in the hospital with a mass on her spine.  His latest diary is here:

So now we wait

Just found out they have ordered another MRI, this time of her entire thoracic spine –  I think just to be sure they have all the info and to verify the location and size of the mass on her back.

They’re waiting on biopsy results at this point and his wife has been fitted with a back brace (they were worried about the mass damaging her spine).

And third, I posted about LoreleiHI last night, who posted a plea to help her get away from her spouse, who is currently in jail for domestic violence:

A Plea to those in Maine

From one of her comments, it appears she found someone she could stay with:

In good news, a Kos lurker who’s local contacted me, so there might be a solution in the works. I’m crossing my fingers.

Any Meeses from Maine?  LoreleiHI over at GOS has a diary up urgently needing help:

A Plea to those in Maine

From her diary:

Those of you who know me or follow me know that I haven’t been active on Daily Kos for about a month now. That has not been completely voluntary. My spouse decided to give in to self-medicating her PTSD with alcohol… and it has been a bad month.

Two nights ago she was arrested for domestic violence.

She is looking for a place to stay out of an abusive situation that will take her & her service dog.  It kills me that I’m too far away to help other than posting her plea over here.  

Commonmass has a new diary up at GOS; I’m on my phone so this will be brief.

GMB02 is on full life support with slim chance to pull through.  Family is there.  Tomorrow they talk about whether to take him off life support.  Thoughts and prayers to Bill and family.

Update from commonmass in his diary:

His family is coming out from Western Vermont and NY State and northwestern MA. He received the sacrament of Baptism this evening as well as the Anointing of the Sick.

I’d posted a comment in the open thread diary earlier, but in case people don’t see it, commonmass’s fiance, GreenMountainBoy02 (aka GMB02) at GOS is currently going through a health crisis and in ICU on a respirator.  I wasn’t going to diary this initially, but commonmass just posted that he’s on his way to the ICU because he’s been told GMB02 may die.  The Diary is here:

Update on Kossack GreenMountainBoy02’s Health Crisis

If you don’t know commonmass (Bill) or GMB02, they are the kindest, sweetest people, who just recently got engaged.  If you can ask for healing in whatever tradition/faith/etc. you are comfortable with, it would be appreciated I’m sure.