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#328239 - 12/24/07 01:55 PM
Re: Howard Juckett gets a new engine
[Re: mcrider_]
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Registered: 12/24/02
Posts: 1493
Loc: Gainesville, Texas
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God Bless you Howard. bp
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#328240 - 12/24/07 02:07 PM
Re: Howard Juckett gets a new engine
[Re: Trailgage]
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Veteran Lunatic
Registered: 08/17/02
Posts: 2944
Loc: TEXAS
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Just talked to Chris and things are going well. Long, tough process though. Keep the prayers flowing.
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#328242 - 12/26/07 06:47 PM
Re: Howard Juckett gets a new engine
[Re: mcrider_]
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Registered: 06/12/02
Posts: 1006
Loc: Westfield, Texas
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12/26 update
============================== It's a miracle!
This morning's visit at 10:00 AM found Howard sitting up in bed, talking, sipping water by himself, and eating jello! He looks great, he sounds great and remembers things that went on in the days prior to surgery. In between a few sentences, he naps... alot! That to me is good thing because it passes the time. He's not up to watching Oprah yet. His Houston cardiologist is supposed to be off this week but he came in to see Howard while I was there. He is very pleased and said his pressure was too high... I freaked... but he said that was a good thing. All is going very well and he may be moved to the next unit today or more probably tomorrow.
I'll probably not send another big email until he's moved and settled into another "less intensive" intensive care. Just know that all is moving in the right direction.
Thanks to each and everyone of you for love, support, prayers, good thoughts, jokes, everything. We cannot begin to tell youhowmuchithashelpus.
Love to all, Nurse Chris
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#328243 - 01/03/08 01:44 PM
Re: Howard Juckett gets a new engine
[Re: mcrider_]
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Registered: 03/12/04
Posts: 36
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Howard is amazing. He is a very dedicated rider. I'm not sure that everybody knows that Howard has been riding with a broken heart for several years. In fact, riding could have killed him at any minute. I would guess that he will be back riding again and I'm sure it will be against his doctor's orders. Kicking the bucket while doing something that you love sounds like a good deal to me. It's beats wasting away in a nursing home. Hang in there Howard and see you on the trail.
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#328248 - 01/04/08 07:14 PM
Re: Howard Juckett gets a new engine
[Re: mcrider_]
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Registered: 06/30/03
Posts: 959
Loc: Lubbock, Texas
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Good news indeed. I remember Howard riding the ISDE in Tulsa back in '94.
Chris, you should "ribbon" him a grass track for his next PT session.
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#328249 - 01/06/08 05:10 PM
Re: Howard Juckett gets a new engine
[Re: SheriffBufordT]
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Registered: 06/12/02
Posts: 1006
Loc: Westfield, Texas
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Final Update. Howard is in a room & at a computer maybe he will get on here. FYI: The Chris in these emails in Howard's wife not me.
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I bet you guys are getting tired of these updates! I may just stop already when I make it to number 10.
We've "Graduated!"
Howard was moved late yesterday evening to what they call 12 Tower. The Tower is where the regular hospital rooms are and the 12th floor is specifically for transplant patients. Yesterday evening, one of his doctors came in to see him in ICU and caught him standing up, looking out the window. She said, "you know what?... you just don't need to be here." I happened to be out of the hospital at that moment, in the "real world" with a friend for the first time in two weeks. I decided I would just find him later and went on to PF Changs and enjoyed myself very much! Thank you, Lisa!!!!!
His only real issue seems to be continued fluid in his lung cavity. He still has one drainage tube in and the docs have been reluctant to remove it for fear of giving him a collapsed lung. Yesterday, they hooked up this machine that looks like something from the 1930's... it's that nasty, metal "hospital green" kind of thing and sounds like a 24 hour vacuum cleaner. I mean it's LOUD and it's right by his head. It's literally giving him a headache. His doctor said that they see this large amount of drainage problem in young, healthy children and said it was really a good thing. That made us feel better. Maybe the "headache" can go away soon. In the mean time, the hose on it is long enough for him to walk into the bathroom and shut the door and get away from the noise for a minute. He's spending a lot of "quality time" in the bathroom!
Tomorrow Howard will have his second heart biopsy to check for rejection and if that continues to look good, I think they may start talking about throwing him out. Yesterday and the day before I would have been worried about having him home but today, seeing him puttering around his room, I'm feeling much better. I know he still has to prove himself to the Physical Therapists by walking and climbing stairs before they will release him. As soon as he can get unhooked from the "vacuum cleaner" he can hit the bricks.
That's all at this moment. The direct phone number to his room is now 832-355-3477. If you want to call, you can hear the vacuum cleaner too!
Later... Chris and Howie =========================
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#595919 - 10/31/18 08:12 AM
Re: Howard Juckett gets a new engine
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Registered: 11/28/06
Posts: 1364
Loc: Lubbock,Tx
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Godspeed Howard.
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#595935 - 11/04/18 08:45 AM
Re: Howard Juckett gets a new engine
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#596348 - 01/29/19 12:15 PM
Re: Howard Juckett gets a new engine
[Re: mcrider_]
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Veteran Lunatic
Registered: 08/17/02
Posts: 2944
Loc: TEXAS
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Just found this. The number 18 on Howard's bike is in memory of the young man whose Heart he recd. He was 18 yrs old.
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