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Welcome! I'm not a patient but rather the daughter of a soon to be patient and have learned a lot from the wonderfully helpful folks here.

I would have liked a shirt like that when I was playing softball back in the day. Took a line drive to just above my gut... shocked it didn't crack the lower ribs but darn I was sucking wind for a while.

Awesome, thanks Greg!

Plunger darts?? Sorry, I know it's not funny and you do what you have to do but then mental picture of that made me chuckle. :)

thanks for the link!

First I guess let me ask, is a clinic different from a hospital lab for ACT monitoring? My mom has been on coumadin for 27 years and goes 1x / month to a local hospital for a blood draw. Through reading here as a result of her impending MV replacement surgery, I found out you can test at home...

Lyn - thanks for the tip on the seat belt cover thing! I'll definitely look into that. Since it'll be winter time and walking outside in Northeast PA isn't super feasible (though once she's more back on her feet, trips to the mall might be a good walking place with plenty of benches to sit and...

Thanks for the additional info. Looks like I better starting looking for a different pillow just in case. So many of these things you don't know unless you ask and I've been scouring the internet trying to gather as much medical and "comfort" info as I can. I mentioned to my mom a few weeks ago...

Good to know. Thanks for the info! Do they give you the pillows at the hospital? We'll be at Cleveland Clinic. We actually have 2 heart looking pillows, silky outside, little foam "pellets" inside (so formable) that I was going to bring just in case and also to put between mom's sternum and the...

Michelle - glad to hear you're doing better and glad you enjoyed the holiday.

Hi all, Has anyone heard of this or used it? It's a plastic "X" type shape that is on a string around your neck that helps keep clothing and stuff off a fresh incision? Trying to plan ahead of things we might need after mom's surgery. thanks in advance!

That's fabulous news! Glad to hear it. What's for lunch? :)

Best wishes Norm!

A train? What's that?? LOL! We had the first gravity railroad in the country and used to have a booming train industry but anymore, the closest to here I could get is NYC or Philly.... Seriously, I was thinking car ride, stopping every 1 - 1.5 hours or so to make sure she can walk around a...

I'm in Wayne county a few miles from the southern end of Lake Wallenpaupack. We just got a new terminal and everything. Big doings at Avoca :-) As for an Angel flight, I guess it could be something to look into but from what I've read about folks that travel to get the Cleveland and they seem...

Glad to hear all is going well!

We have.... we're up in the north east part of PA just north of 80 so basically it's 80 west for almost the whole way. It's about a 7 hour trip give or take. The closest airport is Avoca (excuse me, Scranton/Wilkes Barre International) and to get to Cleveland from here, you have to make at LEAST...

I'll PM you but yep, going there, defaults to month view and entire month of November is blank.

Thanks Greg. Actually it's 1/3/11. Do you know how I can see the calendar or should I ask in the other section? I have looked prior to this and the whole thing shows up blank and says there's no events on any day I pick.

yeah she was really hoping the 20th could be the 16th or 17th but it just wasn't possible so... Might take my Home Pilot the first two trips but definitely will need her Subaru Forrester for the surgery trip because she won't be able to pull herself up into the Pilot.