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i want to thank you all for prayers and cards and everything else. yall are the best.
i will tell yall a little about what i went thru.
first my spleen was ruptured and my blood pressure dropped to 0 over 30. they did emergency surgery and did a trachometer and hooked me up on a venterlator and then when they would take me off i would quit breathing. they said i quit breathing 3 times and they did not think i was going to make it. they were afraid that i was going to have brain damage.
then they transferred me to another hospital where they specialized in breathing therapy and got me of the ventorlater . i was on so many drugs that when i woke up i was hollucinating. please forgive the spelling.
i spent 3 weeks at another hospital for speech & swallowing, physical and occupational therapy and have home health' care now.
i was on a feeding tube and lost 25lbs.
going without water for 11 weeks ain't no fun.
again i want to say than yall for everything and i love yall.
-------------------- Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 468 stark st Commerce, Ga 30529 Posts: 1766 | From: Commerce, GA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Spring is here and so are you. Prayer=cures.
Jack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Glad you're home Jimmy! It was a long road but you made it!
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You amaze me. Talk about a fighter! Welcome back.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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Stick around until I get back home and I'll send ya a one pound box of "Cream of Wheat" cereal to repay ya fer the bag of grits you gave me!!!! LOL
Keep the faith bro...
Dave n Shirley
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6712 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Glad to hear you're back home Jimmy and we wish you a continued recovery!
-grampa dan
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Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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wonderful, jimmy- and thanks a million for the update- keep well!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Ditto on what Sonny said! Can't keep an old sign man down for long, altho I'm sure it must have seemed a long time for you. Peace, my friend and keep on keeping on. Don
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i didn't tell yall i had a heart attack also while i was in the hospital.
the prayers really helped. i quit smoking and they told me i could not drive any more.
again thanks to all. and thanks to judy for keeping in touch with my family.
-------------------- Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 468 stark st Commerce, Ga 30529 Posts: 1766 | From: Commerce, GA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Jimmy, I'm really glad that you made it back home and are on the mend!! You keep improving & we'll keep you in our prayers and some day we'll all be as old as Si is!
-------------------- Chris Elliott 1longshot@classicnet.net cell 62084two2232 Posts: 686 | From: Scottsdale, AZ & Anthony, KS, USA | Registered: Dec 1999
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