shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
My niece Teresa, the daughter of my late brother, is in urgent of prayers and good wishes.
Teresa is in her mid-fifties. She is a retired thirty-year paramedic, a gun owner and hunter, tough as nails. She's brilliant, talented and funny, a terrific lady. She founded a very successful support group for EMS personnel with PTSD from the awful, tragic things they have seen.
Right now she is in danger.
She recently underwent massive oral surgery that involved pulling all her teeth and planing off extraneous bone growth. It was performed because of severe, dangerous infection. The surgeon who did the work is someone I wouldn't trust to clean my teeth.
He performed the surgery without general anesthesia because "that's just something I don't do." (She has no medical conditions that would make anesthesia risky.) He sent her home without prescribing an antibiotic because pulling the teeth would, in his view, eliminate risk of further infection. He gave her only a day and a half of pain medication.
Now she is back in the hospital with a raging infection in the bone and unendurable pain. One side of her head is swollen from neck to temple. This very tough, unemotional woman is frightened, and I don't blame her. This kind of infection can be fatal. It killed my sister's closest friend of over forty years.
Please, if you are a praying person, put Teresa on your list. If you aren't, positive thoughts and wishes would also be welcome.
The world needs this remarkable lady. So do her brother, husband and daughters, and her aunt and uncle.
Thanks in advance.
Teresa is in her mid-fifties. She is a retired thirty-year paramedic, a gun owner and hunter, tough as nails. She's brilliant, talented and funny, a terrific lady. She founded a very successful support group for EMS personnel with PTSD from the awful, tragic things they have seen.
Right now she is in danger.
She recently underwent massive oral surgery that involved pulling all her teeth and planing off extraneous bone growth. It was performed because of severe, dangerous infection. The surgeon who did the work is someone I wouldn't trust to clean my teeth.
He performed the surgery without general anesthesia because "that's just something I don't do." (She has no medical conditions that would make anesthesia risky.) He sent her home without prescribing an antibiotic because pulling the teeth would, in his view, eliminate risk of further infection. He gave her only a day and a half of pain medication.
Now she is back in the hospital with a raging infection in the bone and unendurable pain. One side of her head is swollen from neck to temple. This very tough, unemotional woman is frightened, and I don't blame her. This kind of infection can be fatal. It killed my sister's closest friend of over forty years.
Please, if you are a praying person, put Teresa on your list. If you aren't, positive thoughts and wishes would also be welcome.
The world needs this remarkable lady. So do her brother, husband and daughters, and her aunt and uncle.
Thanks in advance.
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