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\"image\"<\/a> When you’re in the intermediate ICU, you have to be monitored constantly.\u00a0 Most patients (especially the mobile ones) wear a little wireless transmitter to keep them monitored anywhere on the floor.\u00a0 The hospital gown has a little pocket in the front, but it uncomfortable to carry the telemetry pack or telepack (as I’ve heard some nurses call it) in that pocket.\u00a0 The other day I remembered that in the past, they’ve had little pouches that sling over the shoulder to carry the telepack.\u00a0 Since they hadn’t offered us one, I figured I’d just make one.\u00a0 My mom taught me to crochet when I was a teenager, and I haven’t used it very often, but I still remember how.\u00a0 I think it is kind of like riding a bicycle — my fingers remember how to do it even if my brain can’t recall the exact motions.<\/p>\n

I found a nearby fabric store and went and bought a crocheting hook and a skein of yarn.\u00a0 I tried to pick a color that went with the very fashionable hospital gown.\u00a0 I didn’t have a pattern, but I had a good idea of what I wanted to do.\u00a0 It took me a few hours to finish it (not including interruptions).\u00a0 I had picked a thicker yarn thinking that it would mean I could use larger knots and therefore make it more quickly.\u00a0 While this was true, it also meant that it wasn’t as long as a regular skein.\u00a0 I ended up using the entire length of yarn and it turned out just about right.\u00a0 Several times while I was working, nurses or doctors came in to check on Angie.\u00a0 Everyone was surprised to see me crocheting.\u00a0 More than one laughed and said something to the effect of, “you don’t normally see a man<\/em> crocheting!”<\/p>\n

Once it was finished and we started using it on our walks around the unit, someone always stopped us in the hallway and asked where she got her little telepack pouch.\u00a0 One of the nurses, when she heard that Angie’s husband had made them, said, “you should sell them down in the gift shop!”<\/p>\n

While I was down at lunch the next day, one of the nurses saw Angie wearing it and said, “That’s so cute!\u00a0 Where did you get that?”\u00a0 Angie replied, “My husband made it for me.”\u00a0 The nurse got excited and said, “He should totally make swimsuits!”\u00a0 Angie didn’t know how to reply to this and the nurse could see the confusion on her face and then the nurse added, “You don’t wear them for swimming, just for sunbathing.\u00a0 And they put a layer of fabric inside them so you can’t see through them.\u00a0 But they’re so cute!”<\/p>\n

Um… yeah.<\/p>\n

The plan is still to go home today, unless something changes, which is always a possibility.\u00a0 We’ve got oxygen at home now, because Angie’s saturation levels have been somewhat low this week.\u00a0 The next few weeks will probably be long and challenging and hopefully uneventful.\u00a0 We have weekly appointments here at Stanford to check up on her condition.\u00a0 After a month of anti-coagulation, they’ll do the cardioversion.\u00a0 That will probably hospitalize us for a few days again while she recovers from that.\u00a0 Here’s hoping and praying for the best.<\/p>\n

Thank you all for everything you have done to help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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