Comments on: At least Vonage 911 works (or: how my wife spent her birthday weekend in the hospital) http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/ I'm a storyteller. I find cool new things, use them to make my life better, and teach others to do the same. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: One Year Ago Today: How Rachel Spent Her Birthday in the Hospital at Josh Bancroft’s TinyScreenfuls.com http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-48994 One Year Ago Today: How Rachel Spent Her Birthday in the Hospital at Josh Bancroft’s TinyScreenfuls.com Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:40:45 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-48994 [...] Everything turned out fine, but it was one of the scariest experiences of my life. You can read all about it in this post. [...] [...] Everything turned out fine, but it was one of the scariest experiences of my life. You can read all about it in this post. [...]

]]> By: Josh Bancroft http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-10035 Josh Bancroft Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:27:44 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-10035 Thanks to all of you for your kind words and thoughts. It's nice to know that people out there care about us. :-) We really feel lucky to have had a relatively good experience with the whole thing, everything considered. Rachel goes in for surgery tomorrow, which should be routine (the surgeon told us yesterday that this is the second most common surgery performed in the U.S. - I wonder what the first is? I forgot to ask...). I'll keep you all updated! Thanks to all of you for your kind words and thoughts. It’s nice to know that people out there care about us. :-)

We really feel lucky to have had a relatively good experience with the whole thing, everything considered. Rachel goes in for surgery tomorrow, which should be routine (the surgeon told us yesterday that this is the second most common surgery performed in the U.S. - I wonder what the first is? I forgot to ask…).

I’ll keep you all updated!

]]> By: Heath http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-10034 Heath Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:20:56 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-10034 wow...scary stuff but i'm glad things are going well, and really surprised that you had such a positive experience at the hospital - i've never heard of it working so well. ironic - just this week I took my team on a tour of the new digital health expo in FM...we got to see all kinds of new gadgets and technologies that the company is developing to make hospital stays shorter, and the quality of care better, for those times like this when you really need them. there's some absolutely incredible stuff coming...hopefully i will never have to need it, but it's nice to know it's there if you do. wow…scary stuff but i’m glad things are going well, and really surprised that you had such a positive experience at the hospital - i’ve never heard of it working so well.

ironic - just this week I took my team on a tour of the new digital health expo in FM…we got to see all kinds of new gadgets and technologies that the company is developing to make hospital stays shorter, and the quality of care better, for those times like this when you really need them.

there’s some absolutely incredible stuff coming…hopefully i will never have to need it, but it’s nice to know it’s there if you do.

]]> By: IntelWife http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-9980 IntelWife Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:35:04 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-9980 I had my gallbladder out over the 4th of July. Nothing like getting to watch the fireworks from Providence. Nice views if you have to be there. I hope that the surgery goes quickly and easily for your wife. Make sure that she gets the skinny on how certain ummm things might change for a bit after surgery, digestion and bathroom wise, but it does get so much better. And life without the gallbladder is so much easier. Amazing what they can do laproscopically these days! I hope that you get the same great doctor that I had. If it is Dr. Reger he is fantastic! I had my gallbladder out over the 4th of July. Nothing like getting to watch the fireworks from Providence. Nice views if you have to be there. I hope that the surgery goes quickly and easily for your wife. Make sure that she gets the skinny on how certain ummm things might change for a bit after surgery, digestion and bathroom wise, but it does get so much better. And life without the gallbladder is so much easier. Amazing what they can do laproscopically these days! I hope that you get the same great doctor that I had. If it is Dr. Reger he is fantastic!

]]> By: Bill Pearson http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-9968 Bill Pearson Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:27:54 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-9968 Sorry to hear that Josh. Glad your wife is better. I bet she's looking forward to that cake! Sorry to hear that Josh. Glad your wife is better. I bet she’s looking forward to that cake!

]]> By: Mark VandeWettering http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-9967 Mark VandeWettering Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:02:38 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-9967 Yeow. That's the kind of excitement nobody needs. It is amazing how good they are at doing gallbladder surgery, the small incisions mean that they heal really quickly compared to "the good old days". Best wishes to you and your wife, and here's hoping that she'll be enjoying that ice cream cake soon! Yeow. That’s the kind of excitement nobody needs. It is amazing how good they are at doing gallbladder surgery, the small incisions mean that they heal really quickly compared to “the good old days”. Best wishes to you and your wife, and here’s hoping that she’ll be enjoying that ice cream cake soon!

]]> By: Jen http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-9966 Jen Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:45:57 +0000 http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2006/10/at-least-vonage-911-works-or-how-my-wife-spent-her-birthday-weekend-in-the-hospital/#comment-9966 I was wondering, as I read this, if your wife had the same thing I had, and as soon as I read the part where you mentioned that Gabriel was only six weeks old, I knew: gall stones! I just dealt with the same thing myself a couple months ago after the birth of my second child. Apparently a recent pregnancy sometimes gives you gallstones. Mine didn't get so bad that I had to go to the hospital, but the attacks are VERY painful. All my empathy to her. The good news is that <a href="http://jens_page.blogspot.com/2006/09/its-gone.html" rel="nofollow">the surgery was a breeze</a> and my four tiny incisions have healed up just fine. I had a rough couple weeks afterward digestion-wise, while my body adjusted to no longer having a gallbladder, but that has gone away too. So I hope she has an easy experience with that too! I was wondering, as I read this, if your wife had the same thing I had, and as soon as I read the part where you mentioned that Gabriel was only six weeks old, I knew: gall stones! I just dealt with the same thing myself a couple months ago after the birth of my second child. Apparently a recent pregnancy sometimes gives you gallstones. Mine didn’t get so bad that I had to go to the hospital, but the attacks are VERY painful. All my empathy to her. The good news is that the surgery was a breeze and my four tiny incisions have healed up just fine. I had a rough couple weeks afterward digestion-wise, while my body adjusted to no longer having a gallbladder, but that has gone away too. So I hope she has an easy experience with that too!

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