FLASH BULLETIN - Reverend Glenn Jones,
KJ4MNW, Heart Attack
Received late Friday night 2010.07.30
Hello Bob,
Just wanted to let you all know that Glenn's surgery went better
than expected, He's a little sore but doing great. There were no
complications and he will be able to use both his spinal cord
stimulator and the Defibrillator with no problems, They said he will
be home in 2 days. I'm looking forward to hauling him to the next
DBARA meeting.
Some changes are going to be made he's going to have to share his
ham shack with me and get used to me invading (his) space even if
I
have to chain him to me. I told him " You were at the golden gate
without a care in the world, You were not on my end and it was not
pretty, and you are NOT going to do that to me again!" The
cigarettes are going bye bye, for me as well, as I realize that if
he sees me smoke or even smells it on me that he will not be able to
quit, Its going to be hard.....but he's worth it.
He's still in the same room, should be in a regular room tomorrow
(Saturday), and out of the ICU. When he gets home the contact
numbers are:
Home Landline 386-671-1813
His internet phone number is 386-308-0195
His cell phone is 386-795-0683.
God Bless You ALL and Thank You So Much For All the Support.
Mary Ann Jones
Thursday, 2010.07.29 1415 hours
Arrived at the Memorial Hospital to see the Rev Glenn.
The room was curtained off like they were doing something with him so I
stood outside the door and his wife, Mary Ann, spotted my feet and came out
and got me. Glenn is wired for sound and anything else that they want
to know by remote control. He is pretty mobile but has a hard
time trying to sit up by himself with all that electronic stuff hanging on
him keeping him tethered to the bed closely. While we were sitting
around chatting about everything and nothing in particular one of his
neighbors poked his head in to say Hi. So the four of us sat around and
gabbed about one of Glenn's new ideas that he wants to try when he gets back
on his feet, a visiting the hospital ham radio oriented church ministry
idea. Sounds good in the planning stages any way.
He is slightly apprehensive about his upcoming surgery.
But who in their right mind wouldn't be. When I left he was cheerful,
alert and full of the devil. He has his handi-talkie up there by his
bed so give him a call sometime and bat the breeze with him and take his
mind of his current events and distract him.- webmaster
2010.07.28 1920 hours
Glenn had his Heart cath This Morning, There were no
blockages found, so the plan is to operate Friday and put the
pacemaker/defibrillator in. he's getting some of his short term memory back,
he no longer needs to be on oxygen. Glenn is still in the same room and will
be until after Friday, he is allowed visitors and phone calls to his room.
Joe came to visit yesterday and Glenn remembered the visit so its all good.
keep the prayers and phone calls and visits coming,
Mary Ann
10.20 AM 27 July - I just spoke to Mary Ann and Glenn.
Glenn was a little out of breath but said that Wednesday AM he was
getting a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted in his chest. He had
plenty of company for today already. I asked that he ask Mary Ann to
please keep us informed.
Webmaster Bob
From: Glenn R Jones [mailto:kj4mnw@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 11:53 PM
To: webmaster@dbara.org
Subject: Re: [DBARA] July has been a good/bad month
Hi Bob,
This is Glenn's wife Mary Ann... everything happened so fast
when I left for the hospital I grabbed Glenn's old cell phone off his
desk to take for contact numbers and it contained mostly non working
numbers and luckily Tugs was in there and was able to let someone from
the club know what was going on as when I pulled out of this the first
words out of his mouth was not, did you call my kids or did you call my
brother, it was what time is it? I'm going to miss the net....I assured
him that I got a hold of Tug.
At around 2 PM Sunday afternoon he was in his ham shack (as always)
and asked if I would make him a coffee and I did, I found him sitting in
his chair unresponsive and called 911 he had no pulse no nothing,
paramedics got him to come back once but getting him from house to
rescue he went into cardiac arrest again and he was down for 13 minutes
before the could get him back the second time, he was transported to The
New Ormond Hospital Off of SR 40, they put him on life support as soon
as he arrived, was called back and told he was not going to make it.
After tests were run it was learned that he had suffered 2 Cardiac
Arrests and a minor stroke. At 10 PM he woke up and started to come back
little by little, they took the life support off of him this morning and
he was able to talk, he has not suffered from any paralysis or speech,
he is giving the nurses a hard time and his long term memory is fine but
there is some damage to short term memory, they are unsure at this point
if it will permanent or whether it was caused by stroke or the lack of
oxygen he received between the cardiac arrests, they will be doing
another cat scan as they cannot do an MRI because of the metal implants
in his body, he is having issues with his heart rate being VERY erratic
it will beat once then a long pause then 4 beats fast so they feel he
needs to have a pacemaker with a defibrillator put in, he will be having
a test done on Wednesday to go up and look into his previous bypasses
and make sure they are not clogged or if any new clogs are present and
then they plan to put the pacemaker in. He can get calls in his room and
he was able to talk to Tug himself for a few minutes earlier today. He
is in room 511 5th Floor ICU he can have visitors, they will observe him
in ICU for a day or 2 and then plan to move him to a regular room.. I
have had strict orders from him that I am to bring his Yaesu ht when he
will return to hospital in a few hours. I would like to thank the club
for all the prayers and best wishes and support that helped a great deal
to pull him through this trying time. His Dr basically told him {Glenn,
You died not once but twice to three times if you include the
first time back in 2006....Heaven kicked your ass out and sent you back
here, your work's not done....so deal with it}.
I will keep you all posted as I can
God Bless
Mary Ann Jones
Memorial Hospital of Ormond Beach, Williamson Blvd, 676-6046 Room
511
2010.07.25: Mrs. Jones called President John LoCicero today
to report that Glenn had been taken to (an unknown hospital at this time).
As information becomes available and I get it, it will be posted to this
page. The Rev. Glenn was sick when he passed his ham examination last
year but it was something he wanted very much to do. Since then he has
gotten better, become a productive club member and is doing a wonderful job
as our new Public Information Officer for DBARA.
2010.07.26: I still don't have a hospital for Rev Glenn but his wife,
Mary Ann, called John 'TUG" and updated him. Glenn apparently had a
big catastrophe and had to be restarted with the defibrillator. The
doctor told her there will maybe some brain damage and they were going to
have to "crack his chest" and do some work on his heart to fix the problem.
If anyone needs some additional prayer support right now Glenn does.
FLASH BULLETIN - TOM
DAVIES - AA3AS -STROKE VICTIM
2010.07.27 1908: Today, Anne and Bob Ledford took a trip to Daytona Beach
and stopped by the Good Samaritan Rehab Center to visit with Tom. We
found his room to be almost SRO (standing room only). It cleared
rather rapidly as most of the crowd were "care givers" making sure Tom had
everything he needed for his comfort zone. He looks good, well as good
as he ever did, lets leave it at that. His speech is almost 100%
again. The left leg is getting better and the left arm is getting some
reflex types of motion back in it (involuntary movement in response to a
triggering action like a sneeze or yawn).
His schedule at the moment is therapy in the morning and rest in
the afternoon. He remarked, "I need to rest as the therapists
wear you out on purpose. Yea, they do! Apparently they are
really pushy which makes the difference between a therapist and a good
therapist in my opinion. - webmaster
2010.07.27@1045 AM I just talked the
Mrs. Davies, Tom is really doing quite well. His rehab schedule takes
up the morning hours and some of the afternoon. He is standing
and getting feeling back in the leg and arm now. He is
undergoing Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapies (OT,
PT, & ST) daily. [Having just finished up with this routine 3 X a week
for 3 months I know just how wiped out he feels.]
Good Samaritan Rehabilitation Center, 323 South Seagrave Street,
Daytona Beach, 253-6791 Room 611.
2010.07.26: From John
LoCicero
Talked to Tom again
today he sounds better and continues to improve slowly but surely a little
bit each day.
2010.07.25: From John
Locicero and Carolyn Truesdale.
John talked to Tom
today and he is now at the Good Samaritan Rehabilitation Nursing Home where
he is under going "rehab for his stroke." He is speaking clearly,
getting movement from the left leg but the left arm is still holding out for
more cookies before it starts to do anything at this point.
2010.07.21 - From H.
D. "Mitch" Mitchell:
Saw Tom today. Spirits are good, hasn't lost his sense of
humor. Giving nurses a hard time. Has feeling coming back to leg,
talking better, but still can't lift his left arm. Now on Coumadin, as
soon as that is regulated will be moving to rehab on Ridgewood. Maybe
tomorrow or the next day.
2010.07.19 1530 - We,
Anne and I, stopped in to see Tom; and ran in to Pat Schwartz who is
chauffeuring Robert around while his leg is acting up, Tom was sitting
up in the bed with his daughter and daughter in-law and the Doctor
having a conference so we waited out in the hall. When we got in Tom
was still sitting up in the bed and for all that he has gone through this
past week his spirits were really good. He has a good outlook on
things and is going to whip this bear! We stayed just long enough for
him to get tired and then we left him in their good care. Room
1514 in the France Tower.
2010.07.18 12:23 -
Mrs. Davies just called to say that Tom was sitting up and moving his body
parts a little better today. He is eating some and talking some what
better. They were to talk about "rehabilitation" today when she goes
to the hospital. It sounds like our former leader maybe on the mend
which is a good thing. More information forth coming I hope.
2010.07.17 K4TUG just called me
to put this out to all the members of DBARA that our former President Mr.
Tom Davies, AA3AS, is currently a patient of the Halifax Medical Center on
Clyde Morris Blvd at International Speedway Blvd as of today. He has been
reported to have had a stroke and be paralyzed on the left side.
I will be posting data to the home page of
www.dbara.org
from this point on. Unless of course he worsens. Don't forget the power of
prayer to give him that extra edge to getting over this.
Patient Welfare Line:
254-4145
