Comments on: The Rock http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/ Acute and severe abdominal pain Sun, 19 May 2013 17:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: ThruTheHaze (Pam) http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37853 ThruTheHaze (Pam) Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:47:28 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37853 what a traumatic experience. that's been about a month and a half. gems are getting more and more aggressive and difficult to defend against. we need the new system what a traumatic experience. that’s been about a month and a half. gems are getting more and more aggressive and difficult to defend against. we need the new system

]]> By: renearedman http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37852 renearedman Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:51:13 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37852 Robert and Pam I am so sorry you went thru all of this. Please consult a lawyer. There is a brother I know who is a lawyer. You will probably not have to go to court as they almost always want to settle quietly. The reason for going to court is not to make money or get even but it is to force them to take responsibility and make sure this does not happen to anyone else. I am sure you do not want anyone to go thru this. Big companies like this have insurance for this very reason. You might get a small settlement that could help cover extra help you may need for a while. Please think about this. I have never sued anyone and I don't imagine myself doing so, but sometimes you have to step up to plate to protect other people. We will keep you in our prayers. Thank Jehovah we have a loving organization that can help us. So sad for people who do not yet serve Jehovah Robert and Pam I am so sorry you went thru all of this. Please consult a lawyer. There is a brother I know who is a lawyer. You will probably not have to go to court as they almost always want to settle quietly. The reason for going to court is not to make money or get even but it is to force them to take responsibility and make sure this does not happen to anyone else. I am sure you do not want anyone to go thru this. Big companies like this have insurance for this very reason. You might get a small settlement that could help cover extra help you may need for a while. Please think about this. I have never sued anyone and I don’t imagine myself doing so, but sometimes you have to step up to plate to protect other people.
We will keep you in our prayers. Thank Jehovah we have a loving organization that can help us. So sad for people who do not yet serve Jehovah

]]> By: Counselman Collection http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37851 Counselman Collection Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:22:49 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37851 March 6th, 2011 We got to bring Pamela home this week finally. The recovery hospital unit they were going to send her to, was full, so since we have our little apartment custom designed like a nursing home with all large three-foot doors, single level floors and ramps, they allowed us to bring her home. Since they removed her new knee joint they put in last September 2010, they just have a block spacer installed there now, and she wears a soft cast so she cannot bend it. Our son customized her recliner chair raising it up about four-inches so she could get up, and then she uses her walker to move around. We have nurses come in daily to check and change the dressing, plus we are still giving her strong IV antibiotics daily, and she has her vicodin as an analgesic so she can tolerate the pain. Overall, for what she has been through, she is in very good spirits and her faith is strong. The friends have so lovingly been bringing in meals again, along with encouraging visits. It is looking like this will be the first time, in a long time, we will have to miss our special day convention at Holt, Michigan coming up, and that is the only sad part. They are thinking that maybe in May they will be able to reinstall her new knee joint. I told her that is good timing because football tryouts are usually in July. We have missed seeing so many of your photos, and we have missed communicating with all of our worldwide friends, but we just wanted you all to know things are going well. The world may kick us down, but with Jehovah’s blessings, we just keep on going. We hope and pray you are all doing well. We are getting ready to call-in on the phone tie-in now for the Sunday talk, so please, all of you be careful out there. Love and Hugs, Robert and Pamela Counselman McClure, Ohio March 6th, 2011
We got to bring Pamela home this week finally. The recovery hospital unit they were going to send her to, was full, so since we have our little apartment custom designed like a nursing home with all large three-foot doors, single level floors and ramps, they allowed us to bring her home. Since they removed her new knee joint they put in last September 2010, they just have a block spacer installed there now, and she wears a soft cast so she cannot bend it. Our son customized her recliner chair raising it up about four-inches so she could get up, and then she uses her walker to move around. We have nurses come in daily to check and change the dressing, plus we are still giving her strong IV antibiotics daily, and she has her vicodin as an analgesic so she can tolerate the pain. Overall, for what she has been through, she is in very good spirits and her faith is strong. The friends have so lovingly been bringing in meals again, along with encouraging visits. It is looking like this will be the first time, in a long time, we will have to miss our special day convention at Holt, Michigan coming up, and that is the only sad part. They are thinking that maybe in May they will be able to reinstall her new knee joint. I told her that is good timing because football tryouts are usually in July. We have missed seeing so many of your photos, and we have missed communicating with all of our worldwide friends, but we just wanted you all to know things are going well. The world may kick us down, but with Jehovah’s blessings, we just keep on going. We hope and pray you are all doing well. We are getting ready to call-in on the phone tie-in now for the Sunday talk, so please, all of you be careful out there.
Love and Hugs,
Robert and Pamela Counselman
McClure, Ohio

]]> By: SJH Foto http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37850 SJH Foto Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:24:15 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37850 Completely understandable brother! She is still in our prayers. Glad that she is having support from the local friends visiting. I'd like to visit as well if i could Completely understandable brother! She is still in our prayers. Glad that she is having support from the local friends visiting. I’d like to visit as well if i could

]]> By: Counselman Collection http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37849 Counselman Collection Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:52:05 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37849 Quick update, February 25th, 2011 and Pam is still in Toledo Hospital. I just got back, and she sends her love to everyone, and she misses everyone on Flickr also. They performed another emergency surgery on her Monday, removing her brand new knee joint they had installed just last fall. She is really laid up now, and we do not know when she will get out. That bug attacked the titanium steel in her new knee joint, and they had to chisel it back out and fill it with some kind of medical cement. She is surviving now that they are giving her plenty of analgesics for the pain. Some of the loving friends were visiting while I was at the hospital this evening, and that is the only good thing in this old world. Please forgive us for not having the time to say hello to everyone and visit your Flickr sites, but it seems like I am always on the run right now back and forth from the hospital, but hopefully soon, we will be back. Quick update, February 25th, 2011 and Pam is still in Toledo Hospital. I just got back, and she sends her love to everyone, and she misses everyone on Flickr also. They performed another emergency surgery on her Monday, removing her brand new knee joint they had installed just last fall. She is really laid up now, and we do not know when she will get out. That bug attacked the titanium steel in her new knee joint, and they had to chisel it back out and fill it with some kind of medical cement. She is surviving now that they are giving her plenty of analgesics for the pain. Some of the loving friends were visiting while I was at the hospital this evening, and that is the only good thing in this old world. Please forgive us for not having the time to say hello to everyone and visit your Flickr sites, but it seems like I am always on the run right now back and forth from the hospital, but hopefully soon, we will be back.

]]> By: Counselman Collection http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37848 Counselman Collection Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:36:02 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37848 I have not had much time to get on Flickr and visit with all the friends lately on the <a href="http://WWW" rel="nofollow">WWW</a>. I had to have an ambulance rush Pamela to a local hospital as soon as we got home from vacation at Kalahari in Sandusky, Ohio two weeks ago. She spent a week in that hospital, and then we brought her home and continued to give her IV antibiotics for another week. Now we had to rush Pamela to a large medical facility in Toledo, Ohio the other day, because of an allergic reaction to one of the IV antibiotics we were giving her. They now have her stabilized in Toledo Hospital, and she is doing somewhat better. Her doctor is one of our brothers, and he has a specialist working on her case. We are still fighting the bug she allegedly picked up off the floor at Kalahari that attacked her new knee and that leg, which she had put in back in September 2010. She had been on antibiotics by IV 24/7 ever since we got back from Kalahari Water Park. Hopefully, they will find the cause and get her back to normal. Her leg looks like she was in a fire, she has third degree burns all over it, and it is painful as it looks. Make sure your whole family wears shower shoes when playing in any public water park. You never know who is sitting beside of you or what they are carrying. I have not had much time to get on Flickr and visit with all the friends lately on the WWW. I had to have an ambulance rush Pamela to a local hospital as soon as we got home from vacation at Kalahari in Sandusky, Ohio two weeks ago. She spent a week in that hospital, and then we brought her home and continued to give her IV antibiotics for another week. Now we had to rush Pamela to a large medical facility in Toledo, Ohio the other day, because of an allergic reaction to one of the IV antibiotics we were giving her. They now have her stabilized in Toledo Hospital, and she is doing somewhat better. Her doctor is one of our brothers, and he has a specialist working on her case. We are still fighting the bug she allegedly picked up off the floor at Kalahari that attacked her new knee and that leg, which she had put in back in September 2010. She had been on antibiotics by IV 24/7 ever since we got back from Kalahari Water Park. Hopefully, they will find the cause and get her back to normal. Her leg looks like she was in a fire, she has third degree burns all over it, and it is painful as it looks. Make sure your whole family wears shower shoes when playing in any public water park. You never know who is sitting beside of you or what they are carrying.

]]> By: SJH Foto http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37847 SJH Foto Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:15:23 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37847 Oh wow Robert! I am so sorry for you and Pam! Truly, we need the new system where she won't have those pains, or the suffering. I can only imagine how traumatic both experiences were for her! I'm so, so sorry! Oh wow Robert! I am so sorry for you and Pam! Truly, we need the new system where she won’t have those pains, or the suffering. I can only imagine how traumatic both experiences were for her! I’m so, so sorry!

]]> By: Counselman Collection http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37846 Counselman Collection Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:14:38 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37846 Thank you very much for the photos Jim; they are great. So sorry we could not make it to the awards banquet. For those of you that do not know, Pam had a traumatic experience at Kalahari, being locked in a glass elevator that had no air holes in it. It lowered her down from the upper deck to the lower deck, and by the time I walked down the stairs, I found a good-samaritan woman trying to get Pam out banging on the door and pressing the buttons. They keep it nice and warm in there and the glass elevator was even hotter, and I was trying everything to get her out to no avail. It took forever to get any help there and then even the supervisor did not know what to do because they never had anyone stuck before. After experimenting and trying everything, many times we finally got the door open, just as the water park manager came up. This person was only interested in getting his defense ready with his people and would not even talk to us about Pam’s care or blood pressure. I walked Pam to his office and then called for the EMT’s to check her out. She seemed to settle down and we went back out in the park, sat down, and watched the grandchildren. I talked to the front desk manager about the water park manager and at least he slipped a nice apology under our door that night. I could still tell Pam was not herself so Friday morning I left the kids there and I drove her home, as she had a migraine from her blood pressure being up. We got home about noon Friday and she slept most of the day, but then about midnight she woke me up in excruciating pain. I tried to get her in a wheelchair, but she was in so much pain I could not move her. I finally convinced her that we needed an ambulance, and fortunately, my nice neighbor had plowed my driveway, and the ambulance was able to load her in through the garage and take her to Wood County hospital. Her right leg where her new knee was replaced was swollen and red hot all the way to her ankle, and super painful to any touch or movement. They were giving her straight morphine and it did not help at all for the first 24-hours. After two days now of pouring antibiotics into her to fight any infection, and searching for a blood clot with CT, MRI scans, she is still in pain, and is miserable. They have not found a blood clot yet but they are treating her for it, and also treating for infection. Last night I think the temperature went down on it somewhat, and I actually got her to smile at one of my jokes. They think she might have even picked up a germ off the floor at Kalahari through a cut on her foot. You have to remember they keep the place hot all the time, with hundreds and hundreds of people walking around bare-footed, it is one huge Petri dish, full of bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The photos may look nice, but this is the downside of the whole place. I have no idea when Pam is going to get to go home, since they will not even let her walk on it yet or sit up. Just remember, you can have a lot of fun at Kalahari, but please take precautions. Sincerely, Robert Counselman Thank you very much for the photos Jim; they are great. So sorry we could not make it to the awards banquet. For those of you that do not know, Pam had a traumatic experience at Kalahari, being locked in a glass elevator that had no air holes in it. It lowered her down from the upper deck to the lower deck, and by the time I walked down the stairs, I found a good-samaritan woman trying to get Pam out banging on the door and pressing the buttons. They keep it nice and warm in there and the glass elevator was even hotter, and I was trying everything to get her out to no avail. It took forever to get any help there and then even the supervisor did not know what to do because they never had anyone stuck before. After experimenting and trying everything, many times we finally got the door open, just as the water park manager came up. This person was only interested in getting his defense ready with his people and would not even talk to us about Pam’s care or blood pressure. I walked Pam to his office and then called for the EMT’s to check her out. She seemed to settle down and we went back out in the park, sat down, and watched the grandchildren. I talked to the front desk manager about the water park manager and at least he slipped a nice apology under our door that night. I could still tell Pam was not herself so Friday morning I left the kids there and I drove her home, as she had a migraine from her blood pressure being up. We got home about noon Friday and she slept most of the day, but then about midnight she woke me up in excruciating pain. I tried to get her in a wheelchair, but she was in so much pain I could not move her. I finally convinced her that we needed an ambulance, and fortunately, my nice neighbor had plowed my driveway, and the ambulance was able to load her in through the garage and take her to Wood County hospital. Her right leg where her new knee was replaced was swollen and red hot all the way to her ankle, and super painful to any touch or movement. They were giving her straight morphine and it did not help at all for the first 24-hours. After two days now of pouring antibiotics into her to fight any infection, and searching for a blood clot with CT, MRI scans, she is still in pain, and is miserable. They have not found a blood clot yet but they are treating her for it, and also treating for infection. Last night I think the temperature went down on it somewhat, and I actually got her to smile at one of my jokes. They think she might have even picked up a germ off the floor at Kalahari through a cut on her foot. You have to remember they keep the place hot all the time, with hundreds and hundreds of people walking around bare-footed, it is one huge Petri dish, full of bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The photos may look nice, but this is the downside of the whole place. I have no idea when Pam is going to get to go home, since they will not even let her walk on it yet or sit up. Just remember, you can have a lot of fun at Kalahari, but please take precautions.

Sincerely,

Robert Counselman

]]> By: SJH Foto http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37845 SJH Foto Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:49:36 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37845 I never heard of those resorts I never heard of those resorts

]]> By: motivsucher http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37844 motivsucher Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:05:18 +0000 http://severe-pain.com/2012/04/07/the-rock/#comment-37844 Oh, so nice cups! Oh, so nice cups!

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