Four Weeks, Plus a Little
Wow, What a weekend!
I have great news! After four weeks, Amacker is almost ready to start entertaining non-family guests.
Please Read This Carefully!
Here's What to expect:
- She is awake more than she's asleep, but still naps a bit.
- She's got bandages on her leg, her arm (small), her stomach (you probably won't see this one), and on the back of her neck (under a neck-brace).
- She's more lucid every hour, but still not remembering everything from visit to visit.
- She misses her cat, and weeps about it. No Don, you may not smuggle him in. I think she's focusing on some of the simple things she knows to be true, and missing her cat is one of them.
- She doesn't have her glasses, and she's blind as a bat. Don't freak out when she doesn't recognize you or stares through you.
Here are some things I would ask of you:
- Don't focus on the accident. Answer direct questions, but focus on the good things in life.
- Don't focus on the injuries.
- Get out of the way of nurses and doctors who need to check on her.
- Advocate for her. If she needs something, help her get it!
- Remind her to be still and calm.
- Smuggle her healthy things. We all know that hospital food sucks... but you know, be kind to her insides.
Here's how to go visit her:
- Wait until Tuesday.
- Make an appointment on Amacker's Calendar. http://amacker.bullwinkle.org/calendar If you have problems email me.
- Only 2 people at a time. (Thus the calendar.)
- Visiting hours are 11am to 8pm. There is some leniency there, but be overly respectful of the staff if you're out of bounds.
- Stanford University Medical Center - Pasteur Drive, Palo Alto, CA
- She's currently in room 308, but she moves around a bit. Check with the information desk out front.
- Please now address cards directly to her:
Stanford UMC
ATTN: Amacker Bullwinkle
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
That's it. The only thing left for you to do is thank whatever power you asked to help her through this. She is going to be just fine.
6 Comments:
Richard, What times during the day may we come?
Ami Sun
looking at
http://www.stanfordhospital.com/forPatients/visiting/default
It says
General Care
11:00am - 8:00pm
Special units, such as intensive care, may have different visiting hours.
More rules please... on hours...
Also are cards supposed to be sent to you or to the hospital now?
Thanks Ami... good points. I clarified in the post.
I wanted to point people to a trust fund that was set up by several of Amacker's friends as one of our methods to help her.
If you want to donate to it, please go to:
http://amackerfund.blogspot.com/
Richard - For the life of me, I can't figure out how to add an "event" to Amacker's calendar.
Instructions for the technically dense of us?
Amackers event calendar does not work for us. and we are the beta google puppet testers.
There is some places to give health to Amacker....
1st to Amackers new Clothes.
Andrea and Ami created samples to send to designers...for Amacker
This has been happening for the last 4 weeks... there are 3 designers around the world creating new Adaptive Amackers Clothing..
Lee from Bali.. Petrina from Cali and Bunny Warez,,,
These designers are giving their time but need supplies... for Lady Amacker
www.paypal.com
then donate to
amacker@advancedpetproject.com
This fund above for the last month is ONLY for designers to retrofit clothing....
p.s. 6 people have already contributed...to
www.paypal.com
then donate to
amacker@advancedpetproject.com
I can tell the names if they want... some of them have been so kind and supportive and Very important!
2nd.
There is also a trust fund for
Amacker at http://amackerfund.blogspot.com/
You rock, Richard, for setting up this calendar!
But I have to add that I can't add an event to the calendar either. Or well, I tried, but it didn't appear anywhere.
Sorry we are all so inept! But instructions would be appreciated.
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