Requiem For A Lady Marine

Well folks... it has been about 90 days since I have posted anything. And while the old Walrus is quiet he definitely is not dead. Me and Barb have been on an adventure of our own. Ruthie, Suzanne's mother woke up one nite and had a fall injuring her spine. My son Luke called and had a spacie like conversation with her sooo... He immediately handed her over to Barbara who suspected a diabetic episode and convinced her to call the parameds on her Medic-Alert line. They came and stabilized her and hauled her off to the hospital. And here is where the adventure began.

The local hospital got the diabetes under control and then sent her to the rehab division to see about her back injury. This meant a long trip for us to visit at the hospital, pick up the mail at her apartment, wash her clothes and whatever. Round trip for any given day was about 30 miles. But we were the closest of her living relatives and besides we had the time. At this point the plot thickens so to speak.

To make it easy on all of us, including Ruth, we had her admitted to the Pembrooke nursing home which is a 5-star facility and only a couple of miles from our home.
At this point the folks at Pembrooke found that she had been transported with an urinary tract infection which didn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling about the first hospital she was in. So she was transported to Chester County hospital which also was only a couple of miles from our home. And that was a good thing because it made our once and sometimes twice daily visits a lot easier. They discovered a Pseudomonas type bacteria and began treatment to eliminate it. The treatment worked, but an opportunistic yeast infection now showed up on the scene. The assault on the kidneys from all the fluids necessary as well as the stress of a congestive heart condition was too much for her poor body to handle and so she passed on Feb. 21, 2012.

At this point Barb and I could go no further. We turned the rest over to Paul and Corinne to close out the estate and make the final arrangements which they did in fine fashion. RIP Ruth Luckscheider Noel.