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Month: January 2013

  • Pre Para Tions

    Dear, I’d like to keep you up to date on tonight’s activity. Bill has turned down the options Gil and I put on the table before him, not by choosing, but by not choosing (which is also a choice): Get a catheter installed at the hospital Stay at home (tonight) and “stay the course” Dad’s…

  • Rough Night

    Yesterday was one of those days. It had been a rough night at the CER (Saturday Night) The ward was short staffed, I think only four nurses instead of six And it was raining like mad. the ward was packed (22 patients, about 10 Acompanhantes) it began to leak LOTS of water INTO the hallways…

  • Failure Fails

    Failure Fails

      CER, Leblon. Rio de Janeiro. January 19th Bill has been doing progressively better. Today the day started with a question mark: does Bill have kidney failure? The blood tests that have been conducted every morning, and which have shown Bill’s creatinine levels steadily dropping, retreating from what appeared to be the sure road to…

  • Rio de Janeiro, Day Two

    Rio de Janeiro, Day Two

    Day two in Rio de Janeiro, day two in the hospital. I landed at 10:30 am yesterday. Went first to Tavares Bastos to drop off the luggage, then headed to the CER Leblon (Coordenação de Emergencias Regionais). Dad was moved here this past Tuesday, after a day of being taken to specialists, and eventually sent back…

  • Re:visit – a return to Rio

    Re:visit – a return to Rio

    As I said in another post, the story is not over. On December 3rd, if memory serves, my father left home in the morning, saying only that he was going to go run some errands and then have lunch with someone. As it turns out, he had not had breakfast, opting instead for his customary…