God Bless you all and Good Luck. Love Terri -----Original Message----- From: Bernie and Beverly Doucette <bnb@cybrzn.com> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com> Date: Saturday, October 21, 2000 2:58 PM Subject: Re: Dr Korell and Nerves
Hello Mary...and all!!
I couldn't resist palying through here when I read your kind thoughts for all of us heading off to Germany!
First off....they don't serve any ice in Germany!! Few and far between you can find ice, BUT most of the beverages there are served warm and without ice. The cafateria in the hospital does have an ice machine...but not served to rooms! And the water is served carbonated, YES!! Like drinking a warm alka seltzer everywhere you go...so Mary Pomroy and I had to ask for ''WASSAR from Faucette..or actually go point it out to whomever it was we were trying to get water from!! But NO ice chips my dear..that is a dream!!
BUT...Bev to the rescue Lynne...
After running hundreds of trips from Mary's room to the cafateria for ice cubes in little tea pots and taking them back to her room...I spotted a coffee carafe sitting on a table on the unit, it was empty, so I motioned to a nurse that I would like to take THAT and fill it with ice so I wouldn't have to make so many " ice runs "..she smiled and nodded okay!! ( She probably was impressed at my inginuity as well and rightfully so!!! :-)
I hurried off to the cafateria, carafe in hand, happy!! Very pleased with myself too! When I walked into the cafateria, the food service person already knew what this lady wanted, and when I held up a BIG pot for ice, she smiled knowingly and I could see by her expression she knew she was looking at one smart American..probably was thinking that we sure are smart people, very ingenius!! I walked over to the metal counter, head held high, the room was filled with people, patients, Dr's, visitors...you name it, they were there!! I knew they were all probably thinking this was no big deal thing going on, but that cook and I knew it was a break through in the ice fetching bussiness!!
She walked toward that big old thermos lined coffee carafe with a big scoop filled with ICE CUBES!! We both watched with pride as she started to dump that ice into that carafe...and then BOOM!!! It blew up! She ran one way, I the other, it sounded like someone shot a gun through the room as that pot was meatl and was sitting on a metal counter as well.., everyone everywhere was standing up looking our way!! She and I slowly walked over to that pot and with our heads all but fused together, we peered inside to find a mess of glass and ice...then we started to laugh so hard, and people came over to look in that STUPID hot coffee pot! No one told me it had just been used for hot water upstairs and was still hot!!! And maybe they did, but I don't understand German!!
Non the less....I had to go back up stairs with those three puny tea pots filled with ice AND return a broken coffee carafe to the unit....
We have all heard that there is a lesson in all things that well, don't go as planned, shall we say,...so when I returned here to Marinette, I called our hospital, and they have shipped to Duisburg Medical Klinikum a case of large water and ice cube containers for the bedsides of all our IAS members from now on!!!! I know where the ice is..and now I have the buckets to get it too!! Lynne ask Dr. Korell for one as he has them in his office. But please leave it there for the next ones...even though there is a case of them...better we leave them each time as well!!
And Mary, I will be able to send messages back to Pam & Bob Markford and they will get posted for all to see.
And isn't it true my friends, that distance, time nor space can stop our thoughts, feelings, concerns & love from traveling with each of us where ever we may go!
Thank-you Mary, and thank you all for your words of encouragement for these couragious folks! I am sure GOD will allow healing for them and when each one returns to their respective countries, may it be in the best of health for a wonderful future! I thank-all of them for allowing me and Paul Lewis to be a part of this " IAS Contingency " of travelers From two years ago when we had nothing but a few of us starting to " chat " with one another through Dr. Wiseman to this trip abroad is definately putting a dent in the world of Adhesion Related Disease..and it tells me we will conquer this thing folks, how can we not !! What some of you may not know about this trip for life is that is almost as exciting to all of us is this... Helen Dynda, Anne Hyashi, Laura Newman and I have been internet buds before there was an IAS... Paul (and our dear departed Marian Lewis ), Mary Pomroy have communicated with us for over a year now, and now we shall finally meet in what will be one of the greatest breakthroughs for all of us...we may all beat this thing together...talk about GOD in action! As Laura say's, " We are going, we are ALL going!!! HE sure can cook, that GOD can cook!!! "
May this story offer all of you who think or feel it will never happen to you, the reality that of course it can happen for you, and it probabaly will, when you least expect it, keep working towards getting your surgery with the most qualified surgeons in the world..Reich, Redan and Korell as it stands now!
God Bless you all.. In friendship Bev
> ----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Wade <acbcsrt@kansas.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Dr Korell and Nerves
> Lynne and all the Germany travelers,
>
> I get tears in my eyes as I anticipate your journeys. I don't post here
> much but read everything. As you go, a piece of each of us who "attend"
> this group, goes with you. You will be in my thoughts and prayers daily. A
> heroic bunch we have here. Do you think the German nurses who are with you
> would understand if....as you are waking up from the
anesthesia.....if you
> said in English "internet, internet...hook me up so I can write my news to
> my adhesions friends!" Alas, they'd probably just bring you ice chips
> instead.
>
> At 03:08 PM 10/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi Bev
> >
> >This is the only way I can reach you.
> >
> >Iv'e been up since 4am and I'm beat. Couldn't sleep!
> >
> >Anyway we're on our way to Germany tomorrow. Our flight is at 12 noon.
> >We're flying to Brussells and then to Duseldorf and it's going to be
> >late tomorrow night before we will arrive because we have a five hour
> >wait in Brussells for our onward connection.
> >
> >Anyway, I'll see you on the 3rd when my op will be all over and we'll
> >hopefully know if it was a success.
> >
> >Give a hug to Mary when you see her.
> >
> >THANKS EVERYONE for all your prayers :)
> >
> >Lynne.
> >
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