Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 433
Pat, were you further hospitalized in the United States?… Read More
Pat, were you further hospitalized in the United States?… Read More
At the time, the therapy that had just been developed for the bad one, for the staph aureus I believe. No, the pseudomonas, it had just been developed. So I was very fortunate in that, but it was IV therapy. I had to have lots of physical therapy to try… Read More
Yeah. We were fine. We came home and we thought we were okay, my mom and dad were there. We thought we were okay and then all of a sudden, I had this high fever. The pseudomonas and staph aureus had gone systemic. So we were in the hospital together… Read More
And you traveled back to New Hampshire?… Read More
Same amount of time, we were released at the same time. Read More
And yet, how long were you in the hospital, same amount of time?… Read More
Whatever it was. What’s horrible about it is that you are immobilized, I wonder with animals if it can be this way, you are immobilized but you feel the pain. But you can’t do anything about it because you cannot move. It’s excruciating, it’s absolutely excruciating. I remember the pain… Read More
But they had me on whatever it was, was it codeine?… Read More
Debreing her. Debreing me because no surgery could be done until all the debris is out of the wounds, she spent literally hours. Read More
They gave me a lot of codeine. But I wanna tell you something, it doesn’t kill pain, it just immobilizes you. One of the most excruciating things in the world, I had tons of debris in me, 3.5 whatevers of- Pounds of wood. In me. We had our nurse, not… Read More
I was in a bed, they gave me, what’s that, codeine?… Read More
Rear end off and put it on my face. I thought, “Oh no, I’m gonna have cellulite on my face.” That was what I thought was gonna happen. Of course eventually in the states, they had to do more surgery on my face because I had big, thick keloids on… Read More
He was gonna take skin from my rear end or thigh, was it thigh or rear end?… Read More
Plastic surgeon, happened to be there, We were very lucky, Italian doctor. Toward the end of my hospital stay, I was gonna have plastic surgery on my face. Read More
A friend of mine that lived there in Nairobi, Cheryl Fowler came to the hospital. And when she first looked in the room, first of all, I guess burn victims there’s an odor, there’s a strong odor. Also she said that she didn’t know it was me because you swell… Read More
In the states, I ended up having to have a lot of plastic surgery. I had a big hole in my face, big hole here, a big hole here, back. I could put my fist in her cheek of her butt. In her back, she had a hole that big… Read More
They did not know how much use I would ever get at this arm again. It was up like this, and it also had been caused from having a cast that was too tight fit. That didn’t fit. That didn’t fit, it was too tight. I guess initially it wasn’t… Read More
They said the procedures that were used were about 30 years behind the times, that things would’ve been differently had we gotten to Germany, which was one of the discussions, to get medevac us to Germany. That’s what I tried to do. But the doctors wanted to keep us there,… Read More
That knew good doctors. Who came to the hospital and brought us things and took care of us, and if I needed… Eventually when I was at a point where I wanted to have lotion or something, they would bring me lotion, they would read to Noah, they were incredible. Read More
I said, “Well, before you do anything to me, had anybody seen or heard Noah anywhere?” That’s right. And I could hear him. I said, “Put me down.” So, they put me to sleep. Then we were in the hospital there two months. They were wonderful there because at that… Read More