Lots of folks worried cause Bernie kinda fell off the map on the auction site today.
Got a call a few min ago from Rose. She said Bernie is in the hospital with a kidney infection. She also said that he was gonna be fine and should be home tomorrow.
Prayers sent for the Bern man. He is the guy.
Hope you're feeling better, Bernie.
Get home soon. Damn hard to get any sleep in a hospital.
Killdeer
Get well soon Bernie!
Best wishes to a good guy.
Glad to hear your going to be ok.Take care of your self.
Well I guess thats good news/ bad news. Get well soon Bernie I miss all your St Judes commentary. Be sure to follow the Dr's orders.
Thanks Don. We all need Bernie to keep the ship headed in the right direction! Get well friend! :thumbsup:
i hope Bernie has a speedy recovery. rv
;) Hope you're feeling better.
-Jeremy :coffee:
You already heard it.....so I won't repeat it!!!!!!
And what Kathy said......you have to get yer beauty sleep!
Get well soon, Bernie. You are in our thoughts and prayers.
Bernie,
Get well soon!
Get well Bernie. Hope you see you back up and running smooth soon. :wavey:
Prayers for a fast recovery! We miss you around here Bernie.
Praying for a swift recovery buddy!
Get well, Bernie! We (the gang and St.Judes kids)need you here. :pray:
Bill
I'm praying for a fast recovery Bernie...
Bernie get well soon my friend
I'll be praying for your recovery
Get well Bernie!
Get well soon!
Prayers sent for a speedy recovery. Take care.
Prayers sent
Bernie get well soon. Lee
God's grace, peace, and healing for Bernie!
His servant, Mudd
My Father was here last week. We were talking about you when I was showing him my arrow collection. Were your ears burning?
Speedy recovery
Pac
Get some rest Bernie, see you soon - Health comes first so take your time bud :)
I hope you have your 4 leaf clover with you my friend. Get well and get home soon.
Thanks, Don. After what you said about how he grouses if you call to check on him, and I only got the "machine" when I called, I was torn about posting a prayer thread up for him once he was to be home today...
Such infections are nothing to mess with, but hopefully he's on the straight and narrow. If not, I trust Rose will sock him with a frying pan to get him to take it easy! :)
Lookin for you to perk up there, Mini-Grunt!
:pray: :pray:
My thoughts and prayers are with you Bernie :pray: Get well soon :archer2:
Just got home and this was the first thread I saw. Put a little chill up my spine. Don't be doing that to me Bernie!
Get well brother!
Just talked to Rose again. Bernie is still in the Base Hospital. She said He's actually enjoying the rest he's getting. She gave me his # so I'll try and call him later and give him all your best.
GREAT for Bernie!! :pray: :pray:
Prayers sent for a smooth recovery and quick healing for Bernie! Amen.
Keep the wind in your face!
Shoot straight, Shinken
:archer2:
Missin' ya from the Gang Bernie. Prayers for a speedy recovery sent from Michigan.
get well Bernie :pray:
Hope you have a fast recovery my friend !!!
Hey Bernie, Time to get out of the rack and back to it!
With Prayers for complete recovery,
Jed
Prayers sent for you my friend.
C u here soon.
Tough ole Marine.....Bernie can hack it!!! Get well Bernie and drink plenty of fluids!!!!!
Best wishes for a quick recovery.
David & Jennifer
Bernie, you are the point man for lots of activities here on Tradgang. We will all feel better when you're back on point. Prayers.
Don, thanks for posting this, and hope that you had a peaceful Memorial Day...and you also John. Thanks for your service.
If you want to make Bernie smile bid high for the kids the auction means alot to him and Rose.
Be praying for you ol'bud
Get well soon my friend......
Good to heard Don :thumbsup:
Prayers said for a speedy recovery...†
i talked to miss rose this afternoone. Bernie is feeling better than he was a few days ago, but its going to be a little bit before he gets home. ttt for Bernie. ooorah Bernie
Get well soon Bernie
Good for you toothless... I tried several times but now the answering machine is full...
I figured that they were a bit optimistic about sending him home Monday... but as long as he gets back to 100%, whatever it takes.
Pulling for ya ole bud!
Bernie is getting a sponge bath on a daily basis. All us Jarheads pee flames once in a while, enjoy the rest Bernie.
Prayers sent to the Great Spirit on an arrow of love!
Get better, and rest.
Johnny/JAG
Hang in Bernie--we know you can do it. See you back here soon.
Get well soon Bernie!
Tracy
Problem with antibiotics for a few days but changed today and he say's he feels better for the first time since in there. They will keep an eye on him and maybe we will see him return mid to end of next week. I sure hope so.
Hope you get outta there before Rose finds out about those Geisha baths!
Killdeer :scared:
thanks for the updates Don and please let my friend Bernie know that he is in our prayers
get well soon Bernie
Hey you old jarhead, get the heck out of Sick Bay....
Drink more beer and your kidneys will be fine....
Get yourself home and have Rose make ya some of that turkey soup....
Get well Brother..
Semper Fi.
Prayers sent, get well soon Sir, J :thumbsup:
Well wishes Bernie.
i just heard from Bernie himself. he is feeling much better, and is on the sunny side of the slope. they have him on the correct antibiotics, and should be home in the next few days.im more than sure, that he is still hurtin a little bit, due to his age , and he is gonna need some rest after he gets home. but Bernie is on the road to recovery. ooorah Bernie.
Glad to hear you are doing better Bern. Godspeed
:clapper: :clapper: Glad to hear he is on the mend.
Good to hear :thumbsup: :clapper: :clapper:
Thanks for the update Ruddy. I got a call from him myself early this am. Seems that the meds he is getting can only be given by IV. When they get him on an oral antibiotic, he will be home. He seemed embarassed when I told him about all that have posted to get well. It does seem to be a rather serious infection (ecoli). Hope the next post is him.
We're all relieved to hear that you are on the mend, Bernie and looking forward to having you back. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
God speed
:clapper:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Ecoli is nothing to mess with and I hope they keep him as long as is needed to ensure he doesn't relapse...
I had to laugh, Broketooth, reading your comment about"at his age".... he might not forget you on that one! :D
Sure has been good to have updates. that li'l buggar wormed his way into many Gang member hearts and surely mine! I'm proud to call him "friend" and wish he and Rose the best thru all this.
He can be as embarassed as he wants... with his post count, he earned folks love and respect!
you are correct, doc. Bernie has earned the love and respect of many , here on tg. To me , most importantly, Bernie is a treasure , and is meant to be takin care of by all of us, not just by his family. All elderly people whether they are strangers or not, are supposed to be takin care of by the younger generations. they have made sacrifices and have suffered for our freedoms.nuff said. rv
Glad to hear you're doing better Bernie!
Glad to hear :clapper: :clapper:
:thumbsup:
Bernie, Glad to hear you're on the mend. God Speed on the recovery!
Johnny/JAG
Bernie posted up on the batman hunt in auction 5.
Good to see your typed words Bernie. Rest and relax...we're trying to rally the troops in your stead!!
:thumbsup:
Amen on the rest! Welcome home, Buddy! Be cautious and take it slow... no fooling!
I will, Doc, I have to (or Rose will beat me with a wet noodle - and I might get to liking that - LOL)
I want to just say thank you so very, very much to all of my friends for their support, prayers, an comments - you are all too kind (but that's ok, I love it ;) )
Just please be patient with me when it comes to shipping the St. Jude items. Rose helps a GREAT deal but I have all the nuts and bolts of who gets what, etc.
A few life style changes coming up but nothing drastic. Biggest deal is the next 10 - 14 days of Home Care. It seems there was/is no aural antibiotic to fight my strain of ecoli (it is resistant to any of the ones most ecoli respond to (that was the first hang up for a few day. I generated my own brand of it - leave it to ol' Marines to come up with their very own bacteria - LOL. So before they could treat it they had to mix up a new antibiotic (the stuff Dr's write papers about :eek: ). Then to send me home once I was on the mend (they didn't want me hanging around and "catching something else") they had to send me to a civilian hospital in J'ville to get what they call a "Long Range" IV (or PIC) put in to handle the heavy duty antibiotics. So that's where the Home Health Care comes in ( they delivered the meds this AM - to be refrigerated) and will come daily to inject the "tough Stuff' in the thing that hangs out of my arm and goes through a deep vein up to near my heart where there is a vein big enough to handle that without collapsing.
I'n'n't that nice? My own ecoli, my own antibiotic - AND my own peculiar sense of humor will see me through this ( with a little help from my friends)
Of course Medicare A & B and Tricare Secondary doesn't cover "special IV" meds - so we have to pay for them :D Thank god they do cover the home service from a very professional, well-respected Co.
So- now you know more than you ever wanted to know about it (me too - except it is "interesting") . Science and Gov't I class is over for today. :notworthy:
Bless you all, bless us all.
What a blessing to see you back, old friend.
Life is just a bit flat without your upbeat humor and outlook.
Killdeer the Grump :wavey:
See...I always called you a Garden Gnome and then you go prove it by developing a whole strain of non-humanoid bacterium!
Brother... what some guys won't do to get out of helping around the house!
:)
That is quite some story, Bernie! Good heavens you're a lucky fella...that they indeed could mix up a killer coctail for that invader so quickly and effeciently!
Prayers for continued healing...just don't over-do it!!!
Bernie
Tuff as rawhide you are. Glad your gettin better!!!!! Got 2 strings headin your way. That will keep you busy breakin in strings for a while. Keep up the healing!!!
Thank you , John, I appreciate that - "keeps me in the search", so to speak. Though it will be a little while before I can pull a bow - due to this Long Range IV" in my arm - but maybe only a couple weeks, with luck. :goldtooth:
Update : Worst part of this "Home" deal now (it's a pretty damned neat program) is they actually come and spend about 3 hrs teaching "you" how to do it all (unless you are handicapped, or an idiot). So now I have to do it every day untill it's over, with them on call at the drop of a hat 24-7. They do send a home nurse to change the dressing about once a week (or any other time if needed) - sanitation is all importannt. Finally, in order to be eligible, I can't drive - so that's a inconvenience (I hate relying on other folks for every day stuff that we take care of so easily). That and paying for the meds. As they say though - beats the alternative - LOL.
Continued prayers Bernie. Thanks again for all of your contributions to the archery community and tradgang.
UPDATE: ;) Take care Bernie!
Good to see you are back !!!! Been waiting to see your post.
Glad to have Bernie back......he's been missed on the auction!!!!!!
ttt
Bernie is back in the hospital---fluid build up according to Don's report...
Posted on prayer forum, Pow Wow, Don's thread and TGMM where he is omnipresent.
I don't like this one bit... :(
(After another day and a half in the hospital):
Still at home this AM (for a change - LOL) and feeling pretty darned good (even look and sound better - and that's going some). I will start my own home applications of this Intravenous Antibiotic again today. We will get busy and kick this "Rascal" out of Dodge. They were concerned with swelling and water retention slowing my heart down. So the took 3 cardigrams and an ultrasound and declared my heart healthy (thank you, Lord). Sent me home for the rest of the treatment along with a daily diuretic to keep the "water flowing" - LOL (Uh- don't get between me and the bathroom ;^) ♥
Your concerns and comments are so welcome to my smiling heart!
Good to hear you are getting better Bernie!!
Glad you are feeling better. Looking like maybe running down saturday am. I'll give you a call friday afternoon and we can firm up a plan. DB
I found a gray hair, and it's all your fault!! :readit:
I'm sending a box of spaghetti. Thousands of potential wet noodles. :D . God love ya Bernie, and God bless your doctors.
Did they have any idea that they were treating an international treasure? :wavey:
LOL - You are Tooo-too much, Killie - and worth every tupence of it - trust me!
Sounds good, Don, Though it still would be neat if we could do it in Tom's "Bean Shucker" thingie.
I keep losing track of where the hunt thread is now. :confused:
Keep on keepin' on Bernie!
Glad that you're back on line!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Shoot straight, Shinken
:archer2:
Prayers answered!!
Continue to rest and heal Bernie!!!
Bacteria is only beaten back at a steady pace, so keep at it. It won't be long, and you'll be back on top again. Best wishes, and hang in there.
PS - The grandkids enjoy the little rain maker I bought from last years auction. The little ones are still trying to figure that thing out. :)
So glad you're back home Bernie...I will of course keep you and Rose in my prayers...
glad to see you back !
:thumbsup: I hope you are up and around quickly!!
Thanks for all the good wishes. Still medicating and a little week but beginning to feel a little more like a human being again each day ;)
Welcome home Bernie! Praying for you all.