ValleyRD Mailing List: Bill & Martha Buck

[Bob Heiser (w7ikt]

Keep Bill and Martha in your prayers!

  

Saw Bill and Martha this morning when I snuck into the hospital unnoticed and peeked in the door so I could give you a first hand account. Martha was headed to get more jammies and do some laundry. Don Corliss had stayed the night with Bill and Al Simpson is with him this morning.

Bill is hooked up to some IVs and has a hospital internist, pulmonologist and assorted other physicians studying his condition. He looks just fine but has only spurts of energy and does not like the current plumbing arrangements. He is not contagious or anything and can see people but he tires very easily and does not need to be overrun by well wishers.

Dr. Maxwell told him he needs to do the breathing thingy 4x an hour and will get deep breathing treatments twice a day. Dr Maxwell and Schuler are presently treating him for pneumonia but more tests and a detailed CT scan have been done. Dr. Schuler does not believe the pneumonia diagnosis. Fungus, large cell aterialosis, small cell arterialosis, pneumonia, infection, or another condition are being ruled out one by one.

Many thanks from both Martha and Bill to all of you for your prayers. Many thanks for the Stinson s covering tonight's square/round dance. Keep up the prayers for skilled and knowledgeable medical professionals and a bright outlook for Bill. Martha needs your prayers, too as she frets over her sweetie pie a lot.

 

Hugs,

Marti

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Bob & Carol Heiser