Tom -- Really great to hear the good news -- and I'm sure we all hope for
Debbie's continued improvement. Also, I think we have found the real reason
for you Oly obsession -- SLEEP DEPRIVATION!! :-) (I suppose you will sell
all your stuff at great prices now that you can sleep again!)
Best wishes.
Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 9:45 AM
Subject: [OM] Finally back home!
> I thought I'd let everyone know what's happening. Everyone has been so
> supportive, and I really appreciate it.
>
> We're back in Austin. We got home late Saturday. The pancreas is still
> doing it's job and each day gives us hope of it's continued success.
Debbie
> is slowly healing from the surgery as it's a quite intrusive operation
> (guess I won't post pictures of her 14 inch incision (35 cm for you people
> stuck on the metric system). Debbie's still pretty nauseated, primarily
> from the 60+ pills a day she has to take. They'll taper down slowly to a
> 'maintenance dose' of about 25 that she'll have to take for the rest of
her
> life.
>
> I can't tell you how life-changing this is for her. Prior to the surgery,
> her diabetes was almost impossible to control and required testing her
blood
> sugar every hour, 24 hours a day. We hadn't had a complete nights sleep
in
> over three years. I can personally attest that sleeping in hour increments
> is not particularly healthful. Now, we can actually sleep through the
> night, in fact, Saturday night we went to bed at 7pm and slept 12 straight
> hours!
>
> <OM Content> I was able to shoot three rolls while I was up there, just
> around the medical complex. I'll get them developed and scanned soon and
> share with you all. I even took a picture of myself in one of those wierd
> round mirrors on the ceiling of the hospital floor, only to discover this
> technique had already been used in TOPE1, so back to the drawing board.
>
> Thanks again to all.
>
> Tom
>
>
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