Picked up Fred's car yesterday evening. Currently staying with friends Harriet and Paul Welch.....a contact number for Harriet is 1-248-425-4261. Feel free to call is needed, she does keep vampire hours so good times are noon to 3am Detroit time. (this morning I was getting up around 5:30, she was on her way to bed.....always been like that. The direct number to Fred's room is 1-248-898-3806 and I will try to be here from around 10am-6 or so. It's a little strange dealing with the time difference. I do not yet have a cell phone, working on it. Also, nurses station number here is 1-248-898-5890 and hospital main is 1-248-898-5000.
Fred is scheduled for surgery sometime this afternoon, no known time yet. Around 11 am they got him up and sitting in the bedside chair, he wasn't happy but knows it's necessary to move around etc. He sat up for just about an hour. Now sleeping, pain meds on board. When I got here this morning he said, "If I make it through this I have you and all the family to thank." He knows we are all thinking of him. On a side note, honestly, we have cousin Lynne to thank. She gave me a phone number of an old friend that Fred knows here at Baumont, Dr. Darlene Fink head of radiology. I called her when this first began, she saw Fred and made various suggestions. If he was not here at Beaumont with the folks he knows I doubt he would be here today. He is getting terrific care, it's a good hospital.
He just asked me something, said he is hallucinating, must be real good pain medication.
So, for now, thanks from him, love from us both, Chuck
10-28-2010
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