<p>Have a safe trip back!</p>
<p>I’m so sorry the chaotic environment and language barrier added to your discomfort. </p>
<p>James will be ok. He had to have inherited some of your indomitable spirit and resilience. </p>
<p>I pray your flare-up passes without requiring surgery though you sound resigned to the possibility. I’m relieved your condition is stable enough to travel. </p>
<p>I’m sending abundant healing, loving thoughts to you. Many friends post notes to you but I suspect even more read what’s here and silently, privately add theirs, too. </p>
<p>Godspeed on your journey home to more familiar surroundings. </p>
<p>Love,
jnsq</p>
<p>I’m thinking positive thoughts for you as you head back home. It sounds like a good plan, and you’ll be closer to your son and your own doctors (eventually). In the days ahead, I know you’ll rejoice in your relationship with this fine young man (he’s always sounded like one to me, not just now). Sometimes we realize that our children have become adults when they are thrust into situations like yours and handle them with immense maturity, love, and compassion. Hang on during that trip to NYC.</p>
<p>Donna, wishing you a safe and speedy journey to NYC. You’re a woman of remarkable spirit, and my thoughts and prayers are with you and James.</p>
<p>Best wishes for the journey. I know you’ll be glad to be back in NYC and then you’ll have the comfort and support of family and friends. Think of it as a very positive step. Then, I hope you get the help you need and if it is surgery, then that’s what it is. </p>
<p>Sending good karma.</p>
<p>We NYers await you. Hope your journey goes well. Relax as you can. I know it’s tough.</p>
<p>Bon voyage, Donna. Have a safe trip. We’re all looking forward to having you safely back in the states, and I’m sure your son is, too.</p>
<p>Good luck, my best wishes are with you that you will be back here yakking very soon!</p>
<p>Donna, I really mean it. If you need anything, let me know and I’ll run right over.</p>
<p>Donna, I’m hoping by now you’re approaching the Adirondacks and that the ambulance is going at least as fast as I normally drive. 
Even if no one is expecting you at Mt. Sinai, you will be welcomed there. Best wishes! Fingers and toes crossed!</p>
<p>Thinking of you as you make the journey!</p>
<p>Best wishes for a speedy and safe trip!!!</p>
<p>Safe journey to you, Donna!</p>
<p>more bureaucratic snafus ambulance co now says cant pick me up today, notice too short, cant come till 8 am tomorrow (sat). hopefully customs plus thruway traffic wont be too bad on a sat and ill get to mt sinai ER by 4 or 5 pm. I didnt want to show up there essentially unannounced on a weekend but what can i do friday night wouldnt be so great either. Ar least ill still get to see james before he leaves sun to go back to chicago hes taking two summer term classes he hopes he can focus with everything with me i assured him ill be ok on own please go back. he never did get around to cleaning my apt like he said he would o well but he promises hell go to supermarket tonite to make sure theres food in the house whenever i do get home. hard to believe that as of tomorrow am ill have been here in this ER bay for 6 days never mind the surgery 6 days before that. cant even fathom starting over again with new surgery and new recovery so i keep hoping obstruction will resolve itself but no luck so far its been almost a week, at least they say no worse and still safe to transport me i sure hope theyre right. last i wanted to make sure to say how incredibly grateful i am to V. who is truly one of the worlds righteous people she dropped everything to go 2.5 hrs to montreal and sit at my bedside for 2 days and nights and help me and deal with the nurses and give me bedpan and help change the bedding and watch the ng tube like a hawk and she never even met me before except for brief interactions on another online message board. and this isnt easy for her she has MS which is why she had to stop work as surgical floor nurse, and just fractured her hip in feb. at least she got 4 or 5 hrs sleep on a sofa somewhere last night and a couple more today. shes staying till i leave tomw am and then on sun she takes her own son to geneseeo for freshman orientation. what a kind soul when im better i need to think of something really nice to do for her not as payment god forbid but in deep thanks.</p>
<p>Wishing you a smooth and safe drive back to Mt Sinai. I am heartened by the fact they are letting you go, no hospital would do that if you were unstable, regardless of insurance issues, so I’m assuming things have not deteriorated in the last day. This is positive. I’m sure you feel so much more comforted to get back to nyc, your son, and your friends.</p>
<p>Oh gosh, cross posted. One more day there in Montreal. I hope everything goes well tomorrow. Just one more night, how wonderful that V will stay with you, what an angel she is.</p>
<p>Donna, so sorry you have to stay an extra day. Is there any way that the hospital or ambulance service can notify Mt. Sinai that you’re coming, and the nature of your problem? God bless V. for taking such good care of you.</p>
<p>Donna,</p>
<p>Sorry about all the bureaucratic snags that keep things in flux. </p>
<p>We will be on UChicago campus next week, Tuesday or Thursday. (My daughter is interviewing with a prof for an internship next summer.) If there is anything James needs, we can literally be there for him. And anytime, really. Just say the word. We are not far away. I will PM you with my home and cell numbers. </p>
<p>What a gift and blessing V has been for you. She is an angel.</p>
<p>Rest today for your big trip tomorrow. Still praying for the obstruction to resolve. </p>
<p>Keep us posted. </p>
<p>Love,
jnsq</p>
<p>The day’s delay is a good thing. I am quite sure you are going to be stronger tomorrow, and Friday night traffic is a beast.</p>
<p>I do think the obstruction will eventually resolve, and will focus on that outcome.</p>
<p>Keep up your spirits. Channel all this psychic energy into clearing up the obstruction. There is so much love here for you.</p>
<p>I hope you are resting easily today and sleep some tonight.</p>
<p>You know that many of us in the NYC area will skoodle to your bedside to feed you ice chips and ginger ale. Tell us when you’ve arrived, and we will follow.</p>
<p>Skoodle? </p>
<p>VeryHappy, I love the sound of that word! I’d give anything to be able to skoodle from Kentucky to Donna’s bedside, be it in Montreal or New York. Not only would I love to be of assistance, moral support, or whatnot, but in the process I would have experienced something entirely new–“skoodling.” </p>
<p>Ahem. I just looked up “skoodle” on the Urban Dictionary. There are several meanings, apparently, not all of them good:</p>
<p>a.) The act of kissing another with vacuum suction–to inhale one’s tonsils out. Ewwww.</p>
<p>b.) When a dog drags it’s butt on the floor in an attempt to itch it. … Ewwwwww.</p>
<p>c.) A small, cute baby. … Awwwww.</p>
<p>d.) A word that has no definition and can be used as anything.</p>
<p>OK, I’m good with definition “d,” but will nonetheless be very careful in how I use the word. … Donna, keep us informed and if you need help, please let us know. There are quite a few anxious skoodlers here, just waiting to be asked!</p>