Prayer Request

[Gman]

The hospital called and the wfe wanted me to know that, since I'm going to be there tomorrow, I didn't have to come in to visit today. With that free time, I'm just saying, "Hey!"

Mary still hasn't had the ankle repaired. She's been in hospitals for 8 weeks this past Friday. The emergency procedure on her right eye did indeed save her eye, thank God. She currently has an ulcer on her heel caused by the first splint. The dead tissue was removed and the docs are waiting for the heel to get to the point it will accept a skin graft. They need to make sure she's all sealed up so that we won't have a recurrence of the blood infection with fresh hardware in the reconstructed ankle.

She's being transferred to a long-term care facility tomorrow to get her out of the hospital environment while waiting for the healing process to get her to the point of being ready for the skin graft.

My job sucks to high-heaven right now, but I'm happy to have the health insurance. I'd like to look for something else, but can't risk it right now. Anybody know how to explain the obvious to the ignorant in denial? We have an application stack built around Windows with no ability to go a different route (Siebel requires Windows). Our CIO is pushing Sun Ray thin clients for those interactive Siebel users stating that it will make things better. How does adding 4 more tiers of infrastructure at great expense, huge bandwidth requirements between the thin client and server, and additional latency between the users and their application help anything?

It's the early '80s or 1999 (however you want to look at it) all over again.[abused]

[Scott]

Hang in there man. Good luck.

[Gman]

Orthopedics checked out her heel wound today. It's improving, but they won't be able to repair the ankle for 6-8 weeks. She'll probably be in the long term hospital for the rest of the year.[balls]

I got thrown under the bus at work today, too. [train]

Pardon me while I 'self medicate', a.k.a. consuming mass quantities of alcohol. [beer]

[Spenser_in_Broomfield]

Hang in there man. Good luck.

+1

[2ndChildhood]

You guys are in my prayers Gman.

You have really been through the wringer this time.

You sound like you are holding on: +1 to you

[Marpat]

Hey Greg,

I don't pray much, but you and the Mrs. have been and will continue to be included.

[Gman]

Thanks, guys.

[Kappy]

Best wishes sir. Your wife has my blessings.

[Dan I AM]

Hi Greg,
A prayer is a very powerful thing.
I'll mention her next time I talk to the big guy for you.

Dan

[Gman]

Thanks!