Bill Younger Hospitalized; driving the nurses crazy...

On Friday Bill Younger went to the emergency room at Grossmont Hospital and was diagnosed with a subdural hematoma. He was admitted to the intensive care unit where they stabilized him before they could operate.

This morning Bill underwent neural surgery and is now resting comfortably and is expected to make a full and complete recovery. Bill will remain in intensive care for a few more days. Please be aware that he can not receive flowers whilst in intensive care. I’ll keep you posted on Bill’s progress.

Kim

Harry says Bill is driving the ICU nurses crazy

I’ve just been over to see Bill. He’s doing great. The poor nurses are being teased remorselessly, fortunately they all seem to have a sense of humor to match Bill’s. But, they’ve decided that its time to expel him from ICU so that they can get some rest.

Bill will be moved to another part of the hospital and is expected to be there until the end of the week.

I suggest that if anyone wants to send a card the best place to send it would be.

Bill Younger
2514 Jamacha Road #502-41
El Cajon , CA 92019

The good news is that Bill has been sprung from the Hospital. He’s had all his tubes and funny hat removed and over all is doing much better, although he does sill have a headache. The doctors tell us it will be another week or so before he can resume is training for the San Diego marathon.

All the best,

Harry

Bill asked me to pass on a big thank you to everyone for the kind wishes, wonderful cards and beautiful flowers. He really does appreciate them, they are spread all around him.

Late last week we really thought all Bill’s problems were behind him. He was feeling like his old self, but on Friday night he started to have a lot of pain in his side and after an MRI was found to have a pulmonary embolism. Fortunately it is not life threatening but very painful. So, Bill will be in hospital for another couple of days before we can spring him out.

All the best,

Harry

I’ve fallen behind on updating every one, sorry.

Bill was released from hospital, having been given all sorts of drugs to clear out the embolism from his lungs and was feeling very much better. The embolism was very painful.
However, two days later Bill felt the same pains come back and so was rushed, yet again to the hospital were it was found that he has several new, tiny, blood clots in his lungs and one of his legs. Fortunately this time they are not as painful as the first bout.

The treatment problem is that, because Bill was originally in the hospital for a bleed in his head the doctors were very reluctant to give him blood thinners, which is the primary treatment for a blood clot. However, the doctors believe that his head has had plenty of time to heal (I could add all sorts of son in law type jokes here but will show some restraint!!) and so a treatment of blood thinners has been started.

The good news is that this treatment is working very well. The bad news is that Bill is feeling good and is ready to get up and start moving around again, but the doctors are insisting he stay in hospital for a few more days so that they can keep a close eye on him.

Later this month Bill will have a very simple but clever operation to fix a tiny hole in his heart. Probably the cause of all these recent problems. The recovery from this will, we are told, be very fast. However the doctors insist that Bill must not fly for some time after the surgery and so sadly Bill has had to cancel his two August signing events.

All the best,

Harry