Friday, June 27, 2014

(RV 42) The end of RVing for Jackie and I was when her health failed.


Jackie Ireton Monson. My wife lived 1925 to 2007. Her last three years was a  battle with failing health. Jackie had good health for 78 years. Then a lot of things went wrong. She was so brave and suffered quietly. She was always that way. God Bless You, Honey. RIP.


We were in the middle of our 2003 four-month winter trip. We had been in Vegas for three weeks. We had plans to visit Nancy in Dana Point. But Jackie decided that she should go home. On January 1, 2004 we headed home. We were camped at the Thousand Trails Park in Morgan Hill when Jackie’s heart acted up. We went to the Gilroy Hospital. Jackie stayed there two days.

We made it home. Jackie's health and her kidneys failed and she was eventually forced to use a walker and a wheel chair. The night before her last trip to the hospital John and I built a ramp for her. She came out of the trailer and saw this sight.
She was impressed and said "oh my".
We pushed her in her wheel chair down the ramp. She did not come home again and did not get to ride the ramp going up. For Jackie it was a one way ramp.



Date
Action
Where
Remarks
1/2/04
Emerg. Rm, Admit
Gilroy Hospital. (2 days)
A-fib.
1/24/04
Emerg. Rm
Jefferson Hosp
Heart plus ?
2/20/04
Emerg. Rm
Jefferson Hosp
Heart plus ?
12/13/04
Emerg. Rm. Admit
Harrison Hosp. (4 days)
Kidney biopsy
12/18/04
Emerg. Rm Admit
Harrison (4 days)
Blood creatine was 3.3. Normal is 1.
1/7/05
Emerg. Rm
Jefferson Hosp
?
1/24/05
Emerg. Rm Admit
Harrison (2 days)
Weak
3/22/05
Emerg. Rm Admit
ILM Hosp (2 days)
?
10/5/05`
Admit
Harrison (8 days)
Start dialysis on Oct 9, 2005. First of 219 dialysis treatments before Jackie passed away.
12/29/05
Emerg. Rm
Jefferson
?
1/1/06
Emerg. Rm
Jefferson to Harrison (7 days)
X rays, scans, install a catheter in artery.
2/20/06
Fell. Broke left hip
Amb to Harrison (3 days) plus (12 days) in Port Orchard rehab.
Repair hip
3/9/06
Admit
Amb to Harrison (11 days) plus (10 days) in rehab
Pnuemonia
4/2//06
Fell
Broke T-9 vertebrae.

4/23/06
Bleeding
Harrison emergency

10/1/06`
Fly to Ruston, LA


11/8/06
Heart cauterization
Green Surgery, Dr Billy Smith

11/14//06
Emerg Rm (My notes say this was the 4th Emerg Rm trip to Lincoln)
Lincoln Gen Hosp
Short of breath. Pain in left side
11/24/06
Emerg. Rm
Lincoln Gen Hosp

11/25/06
Emerg.
Lincoln Gen Hosp
Weak
1/13/07
Emerg. Rm
Lincoln Gen Hosp

1/24/07

Lincoln Gen Hosp
Bone scan
1/11/07
Samstown Casino
Shreveport
Jackie got Royal Flush. Last casino trip.
2/14/07
Emerg Rm Admit
Lincoln Gen Hosp. (17 days)
Found lungs are bleeding!
3/9/07
Amb to Emerg
Lincoln Gen Hosp
Weak, impacted bowel.
3/10/07
Jackie checked herself in after dialysis.
Jackie thought she should be in the hospital. She did not come home again.
There was no obvious emergency.
3/14/07
Called me in the middle of night
In great pain
Nurse could not help.
3/17/07
Pass away at 00:26. The doctor reported the cause of her death was Acute myoc infarction. (Heart failure)


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