River: Colleen -- Update 4
2019-04-25 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearApparently I have -- once again -- underestimated Colleen, who is awake, wisecracking, planning meals for RainbowCon, and saying she'll be there come Hell or high water. I don't doubt it. She's probably been taking indestructability lessons from my mother.
When I left for home yesterday she'd been unconscious or nearly so for a solid week, and on a ventilator for two days.
She was looking much more alert when I came in around 10am. They took out her breathing tube at 10:47; she was talking within seconds (asked "are you breathing okay?" "Yeah."), telling the nurse that she was hard of hearing within minutes, and discussing sewing projects and menus half an hour after that. We have our Colleen back!
Quote of the day:
Colleen: (when told not to scratch near her PICC line) "I'll be good."
me: "If you can't be good, be careful."
Colleen: "If you can't be careful, be wicked."
I often warn people that she's an easy person to underestimate. I should listen to myself.
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Date: 2019-04-25 10:42 pm (UTC)Seriously, I've been thinking "don't give up" thoughts in her direction since this episode began, and singing as loud as I can for her, you and your whole family. I hope someday I'll meet the two of you in person, and we can all sing loud together! Much love and blessings to everyone, and congratulations!
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Date: 2019-04-25 10:53 pm (UTC)Now that's a good answer to prayer!
Date: 2019-04-25 11:37 pm (UTC)"Bless those in need of healing with r'fuah sh'leimah,
The renewal of body, the renewal of spirit,
And let us say, Amen!" - Debbie Friedman, Mi Shebeirach lyrics
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Date: 2019-04-26 01:35 am (UTC)This is awesome news. :)
-Rillin/Fallon~
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Date: 2019-04-26 03:17 am (UTC)Somewhere Out There, Death is rubbing his bones and eyeing an hourglass with some trepidation.. having just been given a righteous ass-kicking.
and may it be a very long time before he tries that again!
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Date: 2019-04-26 03:18 am (UTC)And I'm not particularly fond of embroidery!
Re: quote
Date: 2019-04-26 03:25 am (UTC)I had been expecting her to come back with "try to keep it down to five or six verses", which is a line from "Like a Lamb to the Slaughter", Frank Hayes' talking-blues retelling of "Matty Groves". But as I said, Colleen is not to be underestimated.
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Date: 2019-04-27 06:19 am (UTC)(That is a good quote of the day.)
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Date: 2019-04-29 03:45 am (UTC)(If you can't be careful, try to keep it down to five or six verses. :-) )
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Date: 2019-04-29 03:56 am (UTC)That's the comeback I expected -- we both know the song quite well.