On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:22:31 -0500, "Nancy Young"
> connected the dots and wrote:

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~"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
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~> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:51:27 GMT, "Dimitri" >
~> wrote:
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~>>"Curly Sue" > wrote in message
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~>>> He had open heart surgery a couple of weeks ago and never really
~>>> recovered.
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~>>Not as uncommon as one would be led to believe.
~>
~> Yes, that is what happened with my mother. She had open heart
surgery
~> and she never really recovered either. A week later, she died.
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~Anesthesia (sp) in older people is a BAD THING. Rapid decline tends
~to follow.
~
~nancy

It helps when the doctors do all the testing first before digging into
one. My Mom, in her 90's, had hip surgery last year. Took her 3
months to get home, and the anesthesia does cause some short-term
memory loss (she thought she still lived in the house where she grew
up!), but she eventually was fine.

I'm glad afterwards that I had gotten her to write down a lot of her
standard recipes. She's forgotten some of them, and a few I'm finding
there are still a few questions about things that don't come out the
way her's did.

She's coming home this week after another little "vaction" fine-tuning
her pill collection.

maxine in ri