Hello to everyone - we want to thank everyone that has posted well wishes on Dottie's blog. Since her last post a great deal has happened and she has been on a rollercoaster ride - we will try to update you with as much information as possible.
She is in the hospital in CCU at Morton Mease Hospital in Clearwater. She is fighting pneumonia and taking baby steps towards improvement. While it has been touch and go over the last 48 hours Dottie is finally responding to the antibiotics. She had to be intubated, so she can't talk - but can communicate by nodding her head.
The family is asking that there be no visitors at this time. If you would like to visit the family please call them and they will meet you in the lobby of the hospital. Right now the most important thing that Dottie needs is rest.
11 comments:
Thanks for the update - we are anxiously awaiting news. So happy it is a bit positive. Teri
Please let her know that she is in my thoughts and prayers every day!!
Lynne
I was able to spend time with Dottie on Friday and was blessed to be there when she was able to respond to us. Although she wasn't able to speak, she did acknowledge our MANY questions. She knows that all of you are thinking of her and sending out prayers for her....she knows how much we all love her. She smiled and opened her beautiful blue eyes for us. Please keep sending positive energy and love....
Please let Dottie know that she is in our thoughts and prayers. I know we're all in a state of shock over what's happening to someone we care so much about. Sending hugs from across the nation. Jeanne Ciolli
Thank you so much for letting us know. I just recently started reading her blog and have thought
about her and prayed for her everyday. Hope she continues to improve. Please keep us informed, as we worry about her.
Her new friend in Indy.
I keep thinking in Dottie will just get up and start blogging....
we are waiting and praying.
Dottie,
Is in my thoughts and prayers. She has been on my mind even since finding her blog again. Sending healing hugs and thoughts from the other side of the world.
Faye in Korea
aka tampafay
Dear Dottie
I am sending you a bouquet of love and courage. I know that this is a nightmare time but I feel certain that once the pneumonia and infection is cleared and the pain is under control, that you will bounce back and live to fight another day. The news about the mets is so disappointing but you are the master at making the best of a bad situation and I can hardly wait to see how you pack the upcoming days with living it up right...the kind of living where every minute is precious and where you focus on what counts...love, friendship, family... the savoring the small details of the present moments that we are usually too busy to notice. This is what you have taught us with your humor and courage and I can hardly wait to get the next installement of your wisdom. Hang in there! We love you,
Diane in Bellingham.
Henri Nouwen said this of friends: "When we honestly ask which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, no curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters."
Thank you, Dottie, for introducing me to the world of altered art and always encouraging me when I didn't feel my creativity was in the same league as the rest of our group; for helping me to see treasures in small things, like buttons, photos & old suitcases; for helping me dress my mannequin (yes, I even ironed the handkerchiefs!) and for always, always making me feel like our friendship mattered. I am blessed to call you my friend. Daphni
Dottie,just wanted to let me know that you are in my thoughts and prayers daily.
Gayla
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