[AT] Forwarded from Farmers yahoo group

Mon Nov 25 09:02:44 PST 2013

Thanks Charlie!

Sounds like he's got a long road ahead to get back to doing the things he's accustom. I guess the good news is that he's traveling down that road...

Brad
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From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] on behalf of charlie hill [charliehill at embarqmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:16 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] Forwarded from Farmers yahoo group

I thought Farmer Robinson's friends on this list would
like to see this.

Charlie

From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:53 AM
To: FrugalRuralLiving at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FrugalRuralLiving] Re: Sort of back...

Below is a collection of information messages I have been sending to some friends and family over the last week. I'm not sure how the email will format it... (shrug)

Morning report.
Where did all of these bruises come from and how did they end up in some of these odd spots?
I have so many shot marks in my belly it looks like I spent the week tipping behives.
One of the most pleasant things I learned was how generally painless most shots have become. That was second place in good things just after waking up in intensive care and realizing that I had woke up...

Diana and I had already been making some changes but just not quite soon enough. I had lost 60 pounds from my maximum weight 3 years ago. Had we acted sooner todays picture would be a lot brighter. I hope all of my kids are reading this... I WILL recover, at least I intend to, but this recovery will be long. I am on a 5 pound lifting limit for the next 30 days then 10 pounds for the next 30 to 60 days. I should be walking well within about a week but if I take a fall on the ice or something in the next month I am at serious risk that they would have to go back in. It's going to be a long winter. Diana is really going to have her hands full...

I don't want to bore everybody with all of my little updates but it has all sort of taken over my life right now and verbalizing kind of helps. Just maybe I can convince a few friends and family to make some important lifestyle changes that may help keep them from going through this same mess. A heart cath and even stenting isn't all that bad but a full bypass is NOT something that you want anything to do with...
Today we sneaked out for a little drive and a grilled chicken lunch. I can't drive for about 8 or more weeks but I am allowed to ride.
Since I didn't get in much walking today I decided to try the basement stairs tonight... Going down was a piece of cake  but coming back up got a little harder. I came up one step at a time as taught but that was about like a days work... I think tomorrow I'll just walk.

This morning I want to mention the people involved in my recent bypass. I am a child of the 1940's and 1950's. As such my memories of medical professionals of those days are not bright spots in my memory banks. Except for a few notable exceptions as a child / young adult I found most of them to be kind of rude, arrogant and in-compassionate to their patients and the patients families.
Fast forward to today and my experience was remarkable. That whole mindset of the old days is gone, at least at St Francis Indianapolis. The different attitude toward patient and family reflects from the surgeons all the way down to the housekeeping staff. The prevailing attitude across the board was "what can we do to help?". There was always time to answer a question. I was attended by a whole string of Dr's, RN's, LPN's and other caregivers and I always felt that everyone was giving me their best.

In my little discussion this morning about the people involved in my bypass surgery I failed to mention the most important one. But then we have been working side by side for over 50 years now.
This has been a steam-roller event for Diana especially when they finished my heart-cath procedure and informed her that it just couldn't be fixed with stenting and they were going to have to open me up, shut me down, start several re-plumbing projects then hook me up to an old truck battery and hope I would fire back up.
I may have come out of it kind of beaten up and patched together but I had the easy part. The only thing I had to do was take a 5 hour nap... I knew absolutely nothing about that 5 hours and still don't. I slept like a log... She on the other hand had to stay awake and wait through the whole thing unable to do anything but worry.
I think the nap was the better option.
Now I get to sit around the house doing stuff like eating, breathing and trying to keep up with what the diuretics are doing to my bladder... She has to keep me fed, see to it that I don't begin to decompose any where and of course do that hard job of preventing me from doing something stupid that might put me back on the table.
In her “spare” time she is taking care of the horses, hauling firewood, feeding the wood furnace, carting out ashes, shopping, paying bills and all of that other stuff...
I think I got the easy part.

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:

  I guess I am back among the living again... Way behind on everything, weak, shaky and so full of new holes that you could use me for a lawn sprinkler... But I'm alive and supposedly somewhat improved or will be in a month or so. I'm supposed to be home tomorrow but I'm afraid I will not be up to a lot of visiting that soon. Well, here comes the day RN with another needle...

  --

  Nothing will teach you patience like a horse. Rule #1, the horse is rarely wrong...
  If you want to get inside of a horse's head love is the key, not anger or impatience and never revenge. Pet it, groom it, feed it, water it; and only then ask it to work with you as a friend.

  Francis Robinson
  aka "farmer"
  Central Indiana USA
  robinson46176 at gmail.com

--

Nothing will teach you patience like a horse. Rule #1, the horse is rarely wrong...
If you want to get inside of a horse's head love is the key, not anger or impatience and never revenge. Pet it, groom it, feed it, water it; and only then ask it to work with you as a friend.

Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com

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