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Archive for June, 2007

IN MEMORANDUM

Posted by hardyberlin on 19th June 2007

In loving
memory

Eberhard
Kosanke

*20.11.1928   +18.06.2007
Rest in peace

It’s finally over. On Monday, at 1:30 a.m., after a long time of fighting, my father passed away at the hospital while the doctors tried to set a new infusion.
There was no chance for him, after a so long time of fighting, his body was definitely to weak. To many diseases, everyone of them dangerous, and during the last four years always a long time in the hospital, destroyed his resistance to disease.
In one week he would have had his wedding anniversary. But, maybe it’s better that way, because the doc’s told us that there would  have been no way to get him back home again.

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A MIRACLE

Posted by hardyberlin on 13th June 2007

Normally I’m very rational thinking and don’t believe that praying will help, I say: Help yourself, than help you God. But now it seems to me that the praying helped. Today they could move Dad back to the normal station. The acute uremia, which was caused by the renal insufficiency, is under control now. The fever is down, and the extremely aggressive intestine bacillus which caused his runs is away, too. So, at least, we can have a bit of hope again.
Okay, he still has diabetes, MRSA, hypertension, cirrhosis of the liver, and is confused; the blood circulation which is important for the healing of his right feet is not okay, too. And at least three of them never will be healed. We also know, that his status  can change to the worse again. But there is at least a bit of hope now.
               Thanks to everyone who prayed for him.

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OPEN THIS GATE !

Posted by hardyberlin on 12th June 2007

20 years ago at the Brandenburg Gate in West-Berlin. A famous speech which changed the world. I need to post it. Tomorrow I will write about health.

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A Disaster

Posted by hardyberlin on 8th June 2007

It’s like I thought yesterday- a disaster. They moved him to the intensive care unit again. His liver is not working, the kidneys are not functioning correct, cause of his diabetes and the bad blood circulation the wound in his right feet is not healing, an extremely aggressive Bacillus in the intestine, and now a blood poisoning, too. Oh, he is now centralvenously nourished.

When I talked with the doctors today, they told me, that they believe that he probably make it only a few days. Only if he has a lot of luck and survives the next five days, we maybe get the chance to take him home again, but only for that he can die here, in his home, in his bed. I stopped believing in miracles.

Es ist wie ich gestern schon dachte, ein Disaster. Sie haben ihn wieder auf die Intensivstation gebracht. Seine Leber arbeitet nicht, die Nieren funktionieren nicht richtig, aufgrund seiner Diabetis und der schlechten Blutzirkulation heilt die Wunde in seinem rechten Fuss nicht, ein extrem aggressiver Darmbazillus, und jetzt noch eine Blutvergiftung. Oh, er wird jetzt Zentralvenoes ernaehrt.

Als ich heute mit den Aerzten sprach sagten sie mir, dass sie glauben das er wahrscheinlich nur noch wenige Tage zu leben hat. Nur wenn er sehr viel Glueck hat, und die naechsten fuenf Tage ueberlebt, bekommen wir eventuell die Chance ihn nochmal nach Hause zu holen, aber nur dafuer das er wenigstens Zuhause und seinem Bett sterben kann. An Wunder habe ich aufgehoert zu glauben.

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Again Worse

Posted by hardyberlin on 7th June 2007

I’m feeling down, really down, and it’s
tough to cheer someone up always if you are feeling that way. When
Mom came back from the clinic on Tuesday eve she was crying again.
While she was there, she recognized that Dad had fever again and
couldn’t hardly speak. Then suddenly, before the nurse could come, he
collapsed. The doc’s and nurses had to lay two new infusions, one of
them in his neck. 

When I came on Wednesday morning, the
situation was still the same. High fever, couldn’t speak, infusions-
but the nurses even hadn’t take care about that he toke his medicine!

In the afternoon, when Mom visited him,
at least he was able to speak a bit. But the next chock came fast,
when she recognized that he didn’t remembered that she was there and
feed him on Tuesday, and also he didn’t remembered that I was
there from morning on(he needs to get feed now, otherwise he
wouldn’t eat anything). Maybe it’s caused by the fever, I don’t know.
We really don’t know how that will go on, we always hope for the
best, but I guess that we should think about the worst, too.

Ich fuehle mich kaputt, richtig fertig,
und in dem Zustand ist es ist hart jemanden staendig aufzuheitern.
Als Mutter am Dienstagabend von der Klinik kam war sie wieder am
weinen. Als sie dort war stellte sie fest das Vater wieder Fieber
hatte und kaum sprechen konnte. Ploetzlich, bevor die
Krankenschwester kommen konnte, kollabierte er. Die Aerzte und
Schwestern mussten zwei neue Infusionen legen, eine davon in seinen
Hals.

Als ich am Mittwoch morgen kam war die
Situation immer noch die gleiche. Hohes Fieber, er konnte nicht
reden, Infusionen- aber die Krankenschwestern hatten nicht dafuer
Sorge getragen das er seine Medikamente nimmt!

Am Nachmittag, als Mutter ihn besuchte,
konnte er wenigstens etwas reden. Aber der naechste Schock kam
schnell, als sie bemerkte das er sich nicht daran erinnern konnte das
sie am Dienstag da war und ihn gefuettert hatte, und er sich auch
nicht an meinen Besuch erinnern konnte(er muss jetzt gefuettert
werden, ansonsten wuerde er gar nichts essen). Vielleicht liegt es am
Fieber, ich weis es nicht. Wir wissen wirklich nicht wie das noch
weitergehen wird, wir hoffen immer auf das Beste, aber ich glaube,
dass wir auch mit dem Schlimmsten rechnen muessen.

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Op’s and others

Posted by hardyberlin on 5th June 2007

Last Wednesday Dad had an colostomy
where they found five ulcers, three of them where small enough that
they could remove em, but the two other’s are to big. He was told
that he will have to get a big op for them, what he denied cause of
his health status right now. Also a virus was found which causes his
runs.

On Friday a operation was planed on his
right leg to make a better fluctuation of his blood possible, but
cause of the virus they had to cancel it until yesterday, when it was
finally made. Everything went well with it. I’ll guess everyone can
imagine how we where feeling, even I had stomachache about it.
Although his phone in the clinic was out of order until late in the
eve, so that he could not call us and we where not able to call him.

And today, at 04:30 in the morning, at
Mom’s the phone was ringing. She got up, running totally nervous to
it, already imagining what could have been happen. But- thanks God-
it was Dad, he just wanted to call her and say good morning, he was
thinking that it was already 07:30 cause the nurse just was in his
room. It took a while until he realized how early it was. Okay, now I will go to my Doc for my check-up.

Letzten Mittwoch hatte Dad eine
Darmspieglung bei der fuenf Geschwuere gefunden wurden. Die drei
kleineren konnten gleich entfernt werden aber zwei waren zu groß
dazu, und ihm wurde gesagt, dass dafuer eine grosse OP erforderlich
waere, was er jedoch hinsichtlich seines derzeitigen gesundheitlichen
Zustands ablehnte. Ebenso wurde bei der Stuhluntersuchung ein Virus
gefunden, welcher seinen Durchfall verursachte.

Die fuer Freitag geplante Operation am
rechten Bein, welche fuer eine bessere Durchblutung desselbigen
sorgen sollte, konnte aufgrund des Virus erst gestern durchgefuehrt
werden. Wenigsten dabei ging alles gut. Ich glaube jeder kann sich
vorstellen wie wir uns fuehlen, selbst ich hatte schon Magenschmerzen
bekommen. Außerdem war sein Telefon in der Klinik bis zum
spaeten Abend defekt, so das weder wir ihn noch er uns anrufen
konnte.

Und heute morgen, um 04:30 Uhr,
klingelte es bei meiner Mutter. Sie wachte auf, rannte total nervoes
zum Telefon, schon daran denkend was wohl passiert sein koennte.
Aber- Gott sei Dank- es war Dad, er wollte sie nur anrufen und Guten
Morgen sagen, er dachte das es schon 07:30 Uhr waere, da die
Krankenschwester grade bei ihm war. Es dauerte eine Weile bis er
realisierte wie frueh es war. Okay, jetzt werde ich fuer meinen Check-up mal zu meinem Arzt gehen.

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