Sa 3/30/19- Cindy's Email About Ryan'a Health

Sa 3/30/19

Up 7am; rain and clouds most of the day; temps to low 40's.

Watched Netflix disc, 'THE WIFE' Glenn Close/ Jonathan Pryce     If a woman stays with a narcissist and cad for forty years and benefits greatly from the relationship, how much pity is justified? I loved the film and Jonathan Pryce was every bit her equal. The younger Joan Castleman was played by Glenn Close's real daughter, Annie Starke. Close has been nominated for 102 Academy Awards and has won 62.

I Changed the cat box and cleaned the area. I think ditching the top to the litter box has solved the problem....I hope.

Then watched 'OPERATOR' (Netflix) Another fantastic surprise that kind of continued the theme of 'THE WIFE'. A software programmer is involved in a project to devise a call center 'voice'. He decides that because his wife has such a perfect phone demeanor, she should be the model for the app. Set in Chicago with a couple of the cast of 'GOOD GIRLS', Mae Whitman and Retta.

I got an email from Cindy about Ryan's seizure and health complications. I wrote a long email in response.

"Hi Ken,

  Hope you are doing well. I've been pretty busy. Today is my first day home alone in a while.

  Ryan was in the hospital for 17 days. I felt like I was living there. I feel like I've aged ten years. He had a fall on March 11 while at a park with his roommate and staff. He said he didn't feel good and wanted to go home. On the way home he had a severe seizure. Normally his seizure disorder he is awake but his eyes rolled back and he was unresponsive for 40 seconds. The staff called an ambulance and then they called me. I met them there. I was shocked at how he looked. While he could talk to me he was still quite out of it. They took blood tests and found he had a UTI. A serious infection like that can trigger a more severe seizure so they did a lot of tests. They kept him a couple of days and knocked out infection and neurology was not concerned he'd have any more seizures like that . We were ready to go home and they stopped that because his blood count was dropping rapidly. A cat scan revealed internal bleeding. He went to intermediate care and was given a blood transfusion. The scan showed bleeding but they didn't know exactly where. His kidney dr was called in because they wanted another scan with contrast. The dye they use can damage liver and kidney. Ryan has poor functioning liver and kidney. It was critical to do this and kidney dr okayed it . The next scan showed his spleen ruptured and he also had gall stones in his gall bladder . He was scheduled for surgery the next day and they would remove both. It was a tough long surgery and he hemoridged again during surgery and was given more blood. He came out of it ok and the recovery took longer than usual. We were set to go home again and when the dr came into see him before leaving, he threw up all over. They kept him and re-inserted the tube down his throat. For 10 days he had nothing to eat and nothing to drink, not even ice chips.  Finally he turned a corner was released Wednesday. They took his staples out before we left. 25 staples. I brought him here but he was doing so well I took him home Friday to his house and turned over his care to them. I have never been so tired in all my life. My family helped by staying with him so I could come home for clean clothes and check mail, feed the cats but I stayed with him. He had a double room the last 2 weeks. The blocked off the other bed and I slept there.

  Maybe you didn't need all this info and sorry it's so long.

  I haven't seen a movie or listened to music until today.

  So, what have you been up to? I suddenly feel like I'm missing something and Ryan gets annoyed when I call to ask how he is,.......

 He was so lucky all these things led to discovering the spleen and gall bladder. They were in such bad shape, he was a walking time bomb.

 Cats driving me crazy for leaving them for so long."

4pm: to Wabash PO to mail the disc and then Planet Fitness.

45" Walk (THE WHITE DRAGON). 45" Recumbent Bike (read 'THIS SIDE OF PARADISE'/ Brooks & Dunn (Google Play). 45" Cross (Last episode of 'Dragon'- the English guy finds that his wife had uncovered a plot to blackmail the future head of Hong Kong. He paid five million, but she was killed anyway. Kind of involved, but still pretty good; nice location shoots Hong Kong). 30" Walk (SELLING SUNSET- the first episode of a Netflix series about a real estate outfit in Beverley Hills that's so over the top it makes Bravo's shows about top tier agents look like they work in Decatur). 30" Cross (BEHIND CAMERA- Carey Mulligan, the actress that was so good in 'DRIVE' with Ryan Gosling.

Home to soak with more F. Scott and some Juju Music from South Africa.

'SOCIAL ANIMALS' (Netflix)  A profile of three users of Instagram; a young, very rich girl from Calabasa,  A  young black man from NYC who is known for taking shots from the tops of New York bridges, and a teenage girl from the rural west who was bullied on Instagram.