Chris, I sure hope she's on the right path now but, if not, raise a ruckus! It sounds like, regardless of what caused it, her chief cause of pain was a bowel impaction. You don't need MRI's to figure this out and her bowel impaction should have been relieved her first day in the hospital. I'm like Ray. When my late wife had leukemia, I was the last person they wanted to see walk in the hospital. I called the State Department of Health twice after getting no satisfation from the administration for her poor treatment. They wrote them 91 citations before things started to improve...slightly.
Unfortunately, making them fear you works better than trying to be Mr. Nice Guy now. Anyone who goes into the hospital without a medically knowledgeable advocate today is in big trouble.
Jeffrey, you can really do some amazing things with those old Athearns and decoders. I have a few sitting around that keep staring at me and wanting to know when it's their turn on the track. Maybe I should send them over to you for surgery.
Paul, nice to see you again and hear about your work. Those large scale trains are sure nice to look at but it gets to be too much like working on a real railroad at times.
My brother and I spent about 6 hours installing a new TV in the RV today. We had to rig up a whole new mount because the old TV was a 20" CRT and the new one is a 19" LCD. Big hole, much smaller TV, and not much to anchor it to. It took some thinking and planning but we finally got it mounted. Now I need to buy some molding and stain it cherry to match the rest of the interior. My back hurts.