We nearly made it over the wall at the weekend, but it looks like a few more days yet -Wednesday at the earliest but more likely Thursday/Friday. The problem this time was the familiar one of the need for Beverley to replace all her intravenous drugs with pills before she can be let out. Sometimes the tolerance of the stomach or the response of the body to the pill form of a drug does not mirror the response to the intravenous form and so some careful monitoring/testing/observation is necessary to get the pill doses exactly right. Since she will be taking probably 10 or 11 drugs for a while after her 'escape' and some of them may interact with each other at different doses, you can imagine that it is not a trivial procedure. On Friday when she was trying out an oral replacement for one of her immunosuppressant drugs her blood pressure rose sharply despite already being on a drug to regulate it and -not surprisingly-she developed a very painful headache. (There were those however who wondered whether another cause might be the Cracker Barrel mild cheddar slices on "Wonderbread" that she had demanded on Friday afternoon !) The pain was so bad that she agreed to go back on the 'poppy extract' for a while to try and get rid of it, but this just made her nauseous as well, Finally late on Saturday evening with the aid of oxycontin the pain subsided and her blood pressure fell significantly . Sunday and today she is fine and the final focus of the discussions when the Governor and Warders toured this morning was to find a blood pressure medicine that can combat any adverse effects of the "at home" pill cocktail. She starts on a new blood pressure drug this morning, but it will 24-48 hours before we know if they have picked the right one. Aside from this she is ready to go ! Thankfully she was bright and breezy on Sunday when Tom's Mum and Dad came in from Philly (see photo).
Although she is still not ready for phone chat, Beverley asks me to send her love to all you dog carers in Fort Greene, job consultants on Court Street, Super AD's in Queens, twin diaper changers in Collegeville, dancing fools in Australia, vineyard junkies in the West, equine afficionados in Spain, her old teachers in Hildersham and all you others whose thoughts and kindnesses and presents have 'propped' her up these past weeks. Thursday will be her and Tom's 6 week 'Sloane Kettering Anniversary' and mine and Miki's 5 week party. Fingers crossed we can all celebrate them at home in Brooklyn !
The Dad
7 comments:
God bless oxycontin!! And so happy to hear you're going home this week!!!
-Dana
hurray, hurry home to the hood. sorry for silence, anth surprised me with new mac to celebrate and get me to work on next book and now i'm all hooked up.
I'm a third of the way done with dental h*ll although i still have a beverly hillbilly gap on right side that will look awesome in the upcoming field piece we're shooting. I overcompensate by buying dresses with loud prints to distract.
otherwise we are all off to much need vacation in montauk on friday, and believe it or not the bananas are done with camp already! Mathias has quite the tennis serve, and Natasha is quite the fish.
Best news is that Lindsey wants some career advice, so maybe I can suck her back in to the fold after all.
ok, promised to cook something outta the star wars II cookbook, can't wait see the official word on your coming home. xxl et al
Great to hear that the cocktails are being fixed so the headaches aren't too bad - shame they cant work out a way for Vodka Martinis to be the same - I tried 3 olives to soak up the alcohol but never seemed to work for me........
Will be waiting for the release date so I can send further care packages to 476 icluding trashy gossip from the UK media.
All well in Spain but no more horse riding after my lesson yesterday at 12 noon and in 38.5 degrees C - I ended up with a very red face but still learnt lots in between seeing heat induced mirages!
Hope to be able to speak to you soon.
Love
Ailis xx
PS great to see Jenny and Mike there with you x
thanks for the update! i'm glad to hear that you're nearly out of there, bev.
we can't wait to come over to your hood and take you out for a drink (or mix them ourselves for an evening in your back yard).
m
I would just like to clarify that the blog cam adds at least 15-20 lbs. The image is actually smaller than it appears on your screen!
It was great to get to NYC and see Bev and Tom in person! It was a very nice visit. We were so happy that Bev was feeling up to entertaining the "in-laws". She was very gracious. Offered us masks and gloves as soon as we arrived. (Didn't have to worry if we had spinach stuck in our teeth.)
We did feel guilty the times we left Bev (with her little cheese and white bread squares) to go to dinner with Tom, David and Miki.
NYC has the greatest eateries!
(But as I said before, it's the blog cam that adds the lbs.)
Jack and Addie were waiting up for us with their adorable little smiling faces. Lisa and Jay looked happy to have us back, too.
It is now morning and Grandpa is witnessing Jack's bath. Earlier Addie watched as Grandpa retreived his email. She was quite impressed. We may rev up the stroller a bit later and go for a walk.
We are hoping that all signs point homeward for Bev very soon. She's done no crime, but did the time.Let her go!
Hope to see you all before I head back to the desert.
Love to all! ;-) xoxoxoxox
The Impatient Patient, The Ideal Husband, The Mom, The Dad
Yesterday's effort didn't work did it? Try again!
As a latecomer (been off the radar) and a newcomer (always slow) to the blog, I'm so impressed with the high humour running through the science lessons! What else would I expect?You're all doing great!!
Just tell me what the Mom uses to wash her hair and keep up the good work.
Hope the Bingleybungley vibes on a different frequency have been getting through 'cos we're sure thinking of you all and particularly big hug for Bev who manages to look cheerful for the camera. Kingston's revving up for barbecue on saturday and mulberries are on cue, so send in the orders!
Lots of love, Bingleys
Hello angel girl, sorry I've not been in touch sooner.
Good to see you rocking the fluffy socks look, they look comfy. Posh needs to watch her back with you styling like that!
Really hope you'll be snuggling in them at home very soon.
Love to you and Tom, good to know your mum and dad are with you too. Keep the photos coming, lovely to see you smiling.
Ross and Sam send you all their love too.
Dot xxx xxx
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