Yesterday Robyn kidnapped me for a day of fun in the sun at Lake Goodwin. I boasted to her that I don't need sunblock because I really wanted to burn, seeing as how my skin hasn't seen sunlight like that in over two years. I even bragged about way back in the day, when my old step sister, Athena and our friend Bub used to lay on the roof of our old horse barn until our skin, literally, started sizzling. About an hour after laying out, she looked at me and commented, "Wow, Ace, you're starting to get really pink." After that, I allowed her to coat me with spray on sunblock. Lo and behold, she forgot to spray my legs. And I forgot to remind her.
After finally realizing that I was burnt to a crisp and ready to go home, we decided to go out for dinner with her guy friend, E. So then we had to run back to my house and change out of our swimsuits and into dinner attire. It was then that Angel saw my burn and covered me head to toe in aloe. As Angel, me and Robyn were running out the door for dinner, cousin Tina yelled at us, "Bring back a tomato!" I didn't heed her warning and we returned without a tomato. Soon after we got home, though, Angel realized, "Oh crap, we really need that damn tomato!" because my legs were sizzling. So I sent Angel to Fred Meyer to fetch me two tomatoes and ibuprofen. Then what ensued next was straight out of any comedy act. I sat on two towels, on the couch, while Angel and Tina each took half a tomato and slathered me all over. As they were both slathering me with tomatoes, I joked, "AAAHHHH, this is the kind of thing that only happens in my dreams".
Thanks guys, I owe you both big time!!
Monday, July 7, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
I'm Alive
To whom it may concern, July 2, 2014
My name is Jacee Caldwell and I am writing this to both thank and hopefully acknowledge everyone who saved my life on July 2nd of 2013 and helped me get on the road to recovery.
I would like to start with the paramedics at the Shoultes fire dept who arrived at our home and took over CPR from my frantic husband. On that night, our 7 month old disabled son had coughed his trach breathing tube out and my husband and I were in a panic to replace it into his neck as well as his feeding tube from his nose. I had slipped and hit my head on the fireplace brick while trying to reach the living room light causing me to be knocked unconscious and stop breathing altogether. By the time the medics arrived I had gone into cardiac arrest.
Thank you to everyone at Providence emergency room for keeping me alive and stable until my surgeries to repair multiple internal injuries and failing organs.
I then would like to thank Northwest Hospital for taking me in and completing the final surgeries, mental health studies and neurological tests to get me over the hump and on the right track for being moved to recovery at Kindred.
Thank you to Kindred Hospital for all of the hard work and motivation to get me moving my body again as well as learning to walk and talk.
A special thank you to Marynell, the Activities Director, for creating a Haunted room for me for Halloween.
I also want to thank Ed, my PT instructor, for kicking my butt all day long and keeping me motivated.
Also a huge thank you to my best friend at Kindred, Heather. Without her I never would have learned how to yell again, as my first words were yelling her name down the hallway.
I want to thank Robin, who as it would turn out, has been a long term family friend and became much of my emotional support in my final months at that recovery hospital.
A final shout out to Gene at Kindred for pushing me as hard as I could go in my PT training.
I would like to thank all the wonderful people at Providence Rehab for helping finalize my PT before helping me enter back into life at home with assistance.
I would also like to thank my personal trainer, Ken for being so understanding when I seriously couldn’t stop drooling. I will never forget being wheeled in to your room and seeing you in the yellow water proof scrubs. Rest assured, I have stopped drooling.
I would also like to thank Bob for being firm with my mother-in-law who flew all of the way in from Arizona to mouth her opinions and trying to assure her that I was ready to come home and it wasn’t a plot from my mother and myself to allow me to go home before she felt I was ready.
And, lastly, I would like to thank Nurse Wendy for holding me and hugging me hours after that family meeting which left me in tears all night.
It has been one hell of a year and I can’t thank all of you enough for not just treating me like any other patient. I don’t want to think about what could have happened without all of your help. I owe my life to you.
Thank you all for giving me a second chance at life in which I am living it up to the fullest every day!
With the greatest respect,
Jacee Caldwell
My name is Jacee Caldwell and I am writing this to both thank and hopefully acknowledge everyone who saved my life on July 2nd of 2013 and helped me get on the road to recovery.
I would like to start with the paramedics at the Shoultes fire dept who arrived at our home and took over CPR from my frantic husband. On that night, our 7 month old disabled son had coughed his trach breathing tube out and my husband and I were in a panic to replace it into his neck as well as his feeding tube from his nose. I had slipped and hit my head on the fireplace brick while trying to reach the living room light causing me to be knocked unconscious and stop breathing altogether. By the time the medics arrived I had gone into cardiac arrest.
Thank you to everyone at Providence emergency room for keeping me alive and stable until my surgeries to repair multiple internal injuries and failing organs.
I then would like to thank Northwest Hospital for taking me in and completing the final surgeries, mental health studies and neurological tests to get me over the hump and on the right track for being moved to recovery at Kindred.
Thank you to Kindred Hospital for all of the hard work and motivation to get me moving my body again as well as learning to walk and talk.
A special thank you to Marynell, the Activities Director, for creating a Haunted room for me for Halloween.
I also want to thank Ed, my PT instructor, for kicking my butt all day long and keeping me motivated.
Also a huge thank you to my best friend at Kindred, Heather. Without her I never would have learned how to yell again, as my first words were yelling her name down the hallway.
I want to thank Robin, who as it would turn out, has been a long term family friend and became much of my emotional support in my final months at that recovery hospital.
A final shout out to Gene at Kindred for pushing me as hard as I could go in my PT training.
I would like to thank all the wonderful people at Providence Rehab for helping finalize my PT before helping me enter back into life at home with assistance.
I would also like to thank my personal trainer, Ken for being so understanding when I seriously couldn’t stop drooling. I will never forget being wheeled in to your room and seeing you in the yellow water proof scrubs. Rest assured, I have stopped drooling.
I would also like to thank Bob for being firm with my mother-in-law who flew all of the way in from Arizona to mouth her opinions and trying to assure her that I was ready to come home and it wasn’t a plot from my mother and myself to allow me to go home before she felt I was ready.
And, lastly, I would like to thank Nurse Wendy for holding me and hugging me hours after that family meeting which left me in tears all night.
It has been one hell of a year and I can’t thank all of you enough for not just treating me like any other patient. I don’t want to think about what could have happened without all of your help. I owe my life to you.
Thank you all for giving me a second chance at life in which I am living it up to the fullest every day!
With the greatest respect,
Jacee Caldwell
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