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Hi All,

Sorry things have been a bit quiet here. Life has been busy to say the least. But I promise a few posts soon (including some pictures from Sydney’s first haircut!). I did want to quickly post this message we got last night from our Dad. As some of you may know from Facebook, our mother was in the hospital last week. Thankfully she is doing much better now. Details and a status update below!

Hi Gang,
Tracy was admitted to Memorial hospital here in Cumberland last
Thursday evening about 11:00 pm.  She was vomiting blood and had some
respiratory distress.  She was quickly stabilized and sent to the High
Care Unit (a step down from the ICU) and over a period of 5 days was
diagnosed with a bleeding ulcer in her upper GI track, a serious
Urinary Track Infection and a Gall Stone (imagine the gall), sorry.
The good news is that she was discharged on Tuesday the 3rd with all
issues under control. She has recovered very quickly and was back at
day care on Thursday.  I’ve asked 5 doctors and none can give me a
reason for the ulcer.  Physical stress, bacterial infection and acid
reflux are all possibilities.  I have my own theories including that
putting up with me for almost 40 years could give anyone an ulcer!
Every thing is under control. Tracy is taking Protonix for the ulcer
and was given antibiotics for the infection and we were told not to be
concerned about the gall stone as it poses no threat at this time.
So it appears that she has dodged a bullet.  I need to be a little
more vigilant since she can’t tell me if she hurts or where it hurts.
Kudos to the staff at the emergency room and the High care Unit, they
were magnificent and treated Tracy with the utmost care and respect.
As a side bar we knew all of the ambulance crew that came to the house
and thanks to scanners this incident was known all over Oldtown.
Quite a few folks have called and offered their sympathy and prayers.
I guess that living in the “boonies” has some benefits.
So all is well for the time being, Tracy is under the care of some
great doctors and is getting back to normal quickly.

Thanks for your concern
Larry