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KZ, did you write the guest article on Trials and Tribulations? If so, I just wanted to tell you it was wonderfully written and answered a LOT of questions I had. :seeya:

I have one last question, if you all would be so kind as to indulge me and then I promise I'll not bother you anymore. :) IF anything done in the ICU by the family caused the massive bleeding, which I am thinking lead to the cardiac failure (and I'm specifically thinking about the suctioning...

Oh absolutely! I agree without question that it would have been prohibited for her to eat. What I was wondering was if it were even possible with that type of surgery for a patient to be so numb or medicated that if someone did give her food, would she have been physically ABLE to swallow it...

Thank you! That is more along the lines of what I was thinking. That if she was given food, she would gag or perhaps thrown up. Another thing I find curious is that, in such a setting where several patients are in one "open area" with family present, no one besides this one person (IF he was...

<modsnip> Yes, and thank you. That was my understanding. I was wondering if it was PHYSICALLY possible for her to swallow more solid food in the few hours following her surgery. In my head, I imagined that her throat would have been so terribly raw from all that she had done in surgery...

When I was 15 (many moons ago) I had major spinal surgery. After recovery, I was moved to a private room. I was awake, chatting nonsense and absolutely starving. I had had no food in two days at that time and although I couldn't walk and my back was stitched from neck to bottom all I could...

It's at the very top of his twitter page where his pictures are! I don't know how to do a screenshot on here (newbie) but here is the link... https://twitter.com/_iamOMARI

And I now feel like a wimp. It's 11 degrees here in SC. I can't imagine minus 29! However, thanks for the banana tip. My little ones will enjoy that experiment. :seeya:

I do not twitter or tweet, but did click on the link posted for the uncle's account. His posts are disturbing, to say the least, but the most offensive and shocking thing I saw straight off was the quote at the top of his page: "Not interested in getting my followers up, just worried about...