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Fabulous News Regarding Minna

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Ian Boudreau messaged me and Minna is awake, alert, and responding to commands (although this is Minna, so probably pissed off she is being commanded to do anything). She is still intubated and can not speak, and I have no idea about her overall movement or other things, so Ian, who zoomed with her, could not elaborate, but this is still fanfuckingtabulous news.

This wildly exceeds my expectations after hearing about the stroke, and I am very grateful.

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  1. 1.

    CaseyL

    This wildly exceeds my expectations after hearing about the stroke, and I am very grateful.

    You and me both. Such great good news!

  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    I can almost guarantee that as soon as wifey heard her mother was coming from Taiwan her “AWW HELL NAH!” kicked in and she started reviving at that point. In my brain that was the trigger.

  4. 4.

    Nicole

    Oh my God, I’m so glad to read this.  I’ve been checking in on the Caring Bridge site every day but hadn’t seen this update yet.  Fingers crossed.

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    I know. We were overdue for some good news. Garland and Biden were great opening acts, and the thought of asiangrrlMN once again taking up her rusty pitchfork is the monster finale BFD.

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    BTW have you been keeping Sarah, Proud and Tall in the loop? I keep meaning to e-mail but words have been the fail.

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    This is wonderful!! The maraschino cherry on what was already a delicious hot fudge sundae of a day!

  13. 13.

    Emma from Miami

    Nice to hear good news. I am halfway to hysterical at the moment. My sister had to be rushed to the hospital with bad kidney stone pain. This particular hospital has good precautions — rapid test before admission to determine which floor to assign someone to, separate entrances for negative and positive patients — still: I do not want her there! And when she comes out she might have to quarantine just in case.
    I am starting to develop a militant indifference to the fate of the rabid unvaccinated assholes.

  17. 17.

    Mai Naem mobile

    Yay! I’ve known a few people who’ve had strokes and recovered (not 100% to pre stroke but still good) quite well so this gives me hope for Minna.

  18. 18.

    Barbara

    @Emma from Miami: ​Kidney stones are so painful. My hubby has had many and then met a urologist who really set him on the right track. I hope your sister gets out quickly and avoids all Covidiots while stuck in the hospital.

  23. 23.

    geg6

    Someone saw a post her brother put up and said she is moving her fingers and such on command.  So happy to hear this.  You go, grrrl!

  24. 24.

    Lyrebird

    @Yutsano:

    Oh yeah!

    Have you ever watched The Wedding Banquet? Stupid blurb writers are all, “this is a lighthearted comedy,” not how I would describe all that excellently portrayed guilt and family pressure.

     

    More importantly, THANKS!  and GO MINNA GO!!!!!!

  35. 35.

    Jay

    Before President of the United States Joe “no fucks left to give” Biden’s announcement,

    Attorney General of the United States Merrick “no fucks left to give” , should have been a Supreme Garland’s announcement today,

    This is the best news of today.

    The personal bright spot of what was a shitty week, was instead of chasing Covidiots out of the store, I got to kick out a White Nationalist Racist and get him banned.

  37. 37.

    lurker

    @Yutsano: bananas are good. brazil nuts are fine if someone else cracks them…those things are tough to crack.  sundaes in general are fine.

    I have it on good authority that maraschino cherries can only grow in the Bikini Atoll, the Nevada test site and a couple of other radioactive locations.  It was posted in one of Abraham Lincoln’s blog posts, where he also explained how he chopped down that cherry tree with an axe he stole from Ben Franklin.  That man cannot tell a lie.

    You must believe everything you see on the internet.

    Also, those cherries could not possibly be that color without some radiation.  I give those to my kids.  Figure they have longer to try to outlive the radiation.

  38. 38.

    dww44

    @lurker:  You know I actually like maraschino cherries and my old school deep south pear salad would not be a hit without them. Grandkids love them too. My Mom fixed that pear salad for Sunday dinners a couple of times a month (she was a plain cook;no recipes for her) and she lived to age 94.

    Good news about Minna. May it continue.

  40. 40.

    lurker

    @dww44: main thing for me really about maraschino cherries is the color.  Every time I see one, I am looking for where I can take the battery out and turn it off.  Just does not seem natural.

     

    Beyond that, I would take most of my comments as at least somewhat snark…

  41. 41.

    Jay

    @lurker:

    you need to get the ones with the stems still attached, if you turn the stem 4 right turns, 3 left, 6 right, 1 left then a straight pull, it disconnects the battery.

    Where the factory has removed the stems, the battery is always on for 4 years, 8 months,21 days.

  42. 42.

    HRA

    I am very glad and happy for this good news about Minna. It was a very long time ago when we did write to each other on this blog and I still missed her here. I send her healing thoughts.

  45. 45.

    Jay

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I want snow,…….

    therapy for strokes, and meds, have gotten a lot better.

    they have learned that you can “reprogram” around the damage, if you do the work.

    Great news in some regards, but,

    My Dad quit, booked out on his first one.

    Grandad on his side, quit after 17.

    When I get mine, ( genetics and covid), I ain’t quitting.

  47. 47.

    Redshift

    Very good news!

    Unrelated, my friend in New Zealand is currently has a bottle of this that she’s pouring from, and I really want some! (Don’t think it’s exported, unfortunately.)

  50. 50.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack (phone): @Redshift:  You’re right. It most likely isn’t imported. However…a good friend in Auckland* is also a dual citizen. As long as he can match the rules for carrying a bottle on the plane it should be fine.

    *according to him that’s a stretch. It’s more like 45 miles out.

  51. 51.

    opiejeanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: I also want snow, always.

    I hope she gets better and recovers at least as well as my dad did after his stroke. A couple of years after, no one could tell that he’d had one unless they really watched his left hand. It still worked pretty well, just not like it had before. Everything else recovered.

  52. 52.

    opiejeanne

    @Jay: My dad had two at age 74 and did the therapy. He was fine for another 20 years, and you had to know him and watch his left hand very closely or you’d never know he’d had a stroke. Even then you might not be sure.

    Neither side of my family has had catastrophic strokes; his was caused by what was then a somewhat risky experimental treatment that I think they do all the time now. His dr decided he needed his carotid arteries reamed out and the first operation was fine. The second one, six months later, caused two strokes during the operation.  His doctor then didn’t level with him about the risks. I only knew because of the internet, which was barely helpful on the subject in 1993.

  54. 54.

    Ms. Deranged in AZ

    Awesome news!

    I need some.  My youngest got exposed to Covid by his dad, my ex, who is now in the hospital with it. He is a Covidiot and I’m praying he doesn’t die for my son’s sake. Have had my poor baby in quarantine all week watching him like a hawk for symptoms.  He’s only 10.  My eldest is sick at his dad’s with something nasty they haven’t identified (tests say not covid, strep or flu).  His asthmatic lungs are on fire and fever and stomach upset.  Tho he is going back to get retested for covid tomorrow just in case. On top of all this we have begun prep for next month’s trial against my other ex and that has been triggering AF.  So needless to say my depression and insomnia are completely out of control.

    So praise Baby Jebus on a Cracker for good news!  May I have some more, please sir?

  55. 55.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Awesome news! Thanks for the update, John. I hope that the news for her continues to be good and that she is back to wielding rusty farm implements with the rest of us. ?

  57. 57.

    lowtechcyclist

    Yay!!!! Praying for a full recovery for Minna!

    Emma, hope your sister gets through this OK. And Ms. Deranged, sending prayers and good thoughts to you and your son.

  58. 58.

    J R in WV

    Both my dad’s parents died after serious strokes, back in the 60s. But much more recently one of his best friends had a massive stroke in her upper 60s or early 70s. Zelda Futterman made a complete and total recovery and resumed her annual Bastille Day picnics. Her kids found a great rehab center, I think in California, and after a few months there she was good to go.

    Her husband was a cardiac doc and died young of a massive heart attack, back when those were not as treatable as they are today.

    I expect Minna Asiangurrrl will make a pretty good recovery with today’s methods. Holding out for total recovery!! We can’t lose more good people early!

  59. 59.

    JeanneT

    So glad to read this update – I’m imagining you feeling that sudden uplift of the heart, when you know that the loved one is again awake and present in their body.  That moment is as close to pure joy as anyone can reach, I think.

    My best wishes for everyone struggling through healing and recovery!

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