Oh bloody hell.

You and Teresa have my deepest sympathies; here's hoping that it was a minor incident and there isn't any lasting damage.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:30 AM by Charlie Stross

You're both in my thoughts and prayers.

100% recovery is the mark to aim for.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:36 AM by Xopher

My deepest sympathies to Teresa and to you. Get better real soon, T!

Posted September 14, 2008 9:36 AM by David Dyer-Bennet

What Charlie said. Thank you for keeping us in the loop-- a lot of people will be thinking of you and sending good karma and prayers.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:36 AM by Avedaggio

Adding my "me too", and thanks to Charlie for the heads-up somewhere where I saw it quicker than I would the ML RSS feed.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:40 AM by Julia Jones

God, I'm sorry to hear this, but glad to hear she is, apparently, OK.

Hope you are both well, and Teresa that recovers fully, without any ill effects.

Know that you both are in our thoughts and prayers.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:40 AM by pedantic peasant

my prayers & good hopes going out to to you, too, from halfway around the world.

a good friend of mine's mother is having breast cancer treatment in new york right now, so my thoughts & prayers & wishes were conveniently in the neighbourhood already.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:40 AM by miriam beetle

Hoping they release Teresa soon and that this is a one time, minor, event.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:41 AM by Steven

Holy crap :O best wishes and everything they said.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:41 AM by KristianB

oh, my. Here's to a speedy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:42 AM by CE Murphy

Thank you, Patrick. Teresa, if you are reading this, get well soon. And darn those lifestyle changes. :-P

Posted September 14, 2008 9:43 AM by ebear

I lurk and never comment, but surface here to wish Teresa a quick recovery and good health. Sending love, mixed with gratitude for the sanity, humor, and intelligence you both bring every day.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:45 AM by mg_65

I'm really sorry to hear this. Get better soon!

Posted September 14, 2008 9:45 AM by Liz Williams

FYI:

I've been trying to find Teresa's initial post (which I'm assuming is in the memories and remembrances open-ish thread), by using "view all by" on Teresa's early post around comment 7 or 9, but every time I click the "view all by" it brings me back to Making Light's front page.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:47 AM by pedantic peasant

My great-grandmother spent her last five years afraid she was going to explode if she fell over, because she'd been taking nitroglycerin. I don't think anybody should try to avoid making Teresa laugh on these grounds.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, and for continued boredom until then, since boredom is far, far better than lots of interesting activity when you're in the hospital.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:47 AM by Mris

I'm so sorry to hear this. Add my thoughts to those wishing Teresa (and you) well.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:48 AM by Adam Lipkin

is she okay? Sure; mostly bored.

Boring is good.
My best wishes, teresa.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:52 AM by Serge

How scary! I am glad the paramedics were so swift, and so well-equipped. May Miss Teresa come home soon.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:53 AM by Fiendish Writer

#14, pedantic peasant: Beats me. In a modern browser, my link in the post above should take you to her comment #157. And the "view all by" link in her comment headers works for me as well, although as you might expect it takes a while to load...

Posted September 14, 2008 9:54 AM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Holy hell...glad to hear Teresa's doing better.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:55 AM by Will "scifantasy" Frank

It sounds like things went as well as they possibly could, which is still not much of a recommendation.

Best wishes to Teresa for a speedy recovery, and best wishes to Patrick (and Elise) for coping with an incredibly stressful situation.

Posted September 14, 2008 9:55 AM by Rivka

My God. When Serge told me about that, I was horrified.

My best wishes and sympathies!

Posted September 14, 2008 9:57 AM by Sue

I'm with Serge @ #17: In this context, boring is good. Best wishes for Teresa's quick recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:01 AM by Steve B

I hope things improve very soon. I'm very sorry to hear this news.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:03 AM by eric orchard

I am glad to hear that Teresa is mostly bored. Swift recovery please.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:03 AM by JKRichard

Incidentally, if any of you ever get those symptoms? Do what Patrick and Teresa did and call an ambulance immediately.

The survival figures speak for themselves; 85% of those who get to hospital within 3 hours of a heart attack survive, and among those who do within an hour the survival rate is even higher. But the overall survival rate for a first heart attack is down around 50%, because a surprisingly high proportion of victims try to tough it out or ignore it at first -- until it's too late.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:04 AM by Charlie Stross

My great-grandmother spent her last five years afraid she was going to explode if she fell over, because she'd been taking nitroglycerin. I don't think anybody should try to avoid making Teresa laugh on these grounds.

Road Runner zips up behind Teresa. "MEEP MEEP!"

Teresa looks around, shrieks with laughter, collapses. <KABOOOM!>

Cut to: Teresa, blinking, blackened, in a cloud of smoke.

But with any luck, she'll be fine again in the very next scene.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:05 AM by Joel Polowin

Best wishes to you both, and get well soon, Teresa.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:08 AM by Kieran

You both have my best wishes and sympathy. Teresa, please take care and I hope you have a speedy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:11 AM by Kelly McCullough

Yeah, dealing with hospitals can be frustrating. All the best to Teresa, Patrick and Elise. I'm glad she's ok. I hope everything gets sorted out soon and that whatever health issues are minor.

Like everyone has said though, in this case, bored is good.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:14 AM by John Chu

Yikes!

Best wishes on a speedy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:15 AM by Paul

Hope all is well, I'll light a candle for ya when I hit Mass today

Posted September 14, 2008 10:17 AM by JJ Fozz

Get well soon, Teresa, and out of the boring hospital. Get so well everybody else looks sick. Get so well that doctors quit grading on the curve. Get so well Thomas Sowell changes his name to avoid the comparison.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:17 AM by Kip W

#26 Charlie: But the overall survival rate for a first heart attack is down around 50%, because a surprisingly high proportion of victims try to tough it out or ignore it at first -- until it's too late.

You got that right, Charlie. If you go to someone's house (usually because you were called by his wife) and the first words out of his mouth are "I'm not having a heart attack!" that's almost diagnostic. He's having one right in front of your eyes.

The very first of my medical posts here was on heart attacks. What motivated me to write it was when a friend called me on the phone (knowing that I'm an EMT and all) to say "My co-worker has chest pain and he's looking really pale and sweaty. What should I do?" or words to that effect.

If you suspect heart attack, sit down, 9-1-1 and four baby aspirin (chewed), and let Big Medicine do what it does best. Really, we're good at this.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:17 AM by James D. Macdonald

I'm just sorry that T. has had to spend several nights in a hospital bed, doubtless being awakened every few hours for someone to take her vitals and stick needles in her.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:22 AM by beth meacham

Best wishes, Teresa! And strength and patience to Patrick and Elise, too.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:22 AM by Connie H.

Wow. My sympathy and very best wishes for a quick resolution and the speediest recovery for Teresa. And particularly, here's hoping for smooth sailing for Patrick and Elise. It's so stressful being the person in the bedside chair.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:24 AM by Linda Daly

Adding my "get well soon & don't explode, please" to the already huge heap. For the past few years, Making Light has been making my life, well, lighter. I hope that this event will be nothing more than a "here's how you do it right" exercise complementing all the medical posts. Good luck, people.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:24 AM by Alexandr Kazda

Fingers crossed, best wishes, and all good thoughts - and those are directed to you, Patrick, as well, because (sadly) I know how awful it is for the partner who has to hang out in the waiting room making all the friends-and-relations phone calls ('yes, they did a treponin test; yes, I'm sure the doctor didn't get his degree from a Cracker Jack box' etc.).

During long stressful waiting periods I recommend writing doggerel, because I found a kind of victory in being able to rhyme and scan At A Time Like This.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:25 AM by Tracey S. Rosenberg

:Thinking good thoughts for both of you:

Posted September 14, 2008 10:25 AM by Melissa Mead

Get well soon, Teresa -- thinking of you and Patrick and hope all goes well.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:26 AM by Karin

Good to hear. I'll be thinking of you both.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:29 AM by Farah

You're in my thoughts and prayers as well, Teresa. Best wishes to you and all your caregivers.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:31 AM by Evan Goer

Well wishes from Texas. We're thinking good thoughts for you.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:31 AM by Michael

Egad! You two are in my thoughts and prayers.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:37 AM by Johne Cook

This hardly seems fair. Best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery, and if you want a free (though no-frills) vacation in the sunny Caribbean as a stress reducer, you know who to turn to. Along about November it'll start sounding good.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:39 AM by Michael Roberts

Best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:44 AM by Ronit

People who are interested in What Happens in the Hospital could do far worse than to go to Heartsite.com.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:49 AM by James D. Macdonald

Here's to a medically boring stay, with enough non-medical activity and mental stimulation to keep Teresa from being bored. (Let the medical staff be bored, instead.)

Posted September 14, 2008 10:49 AM by Christopher Davis

I've been heads down in moving cross-country (east coast to west coast) so I missed any earlier discussion. But let me be the, um, 47th or so to offer my best wishes for Teresa's recovery and return to good health.

(As a side note, I'm somewhat curious as to how a hypochondriac should handle heart attack symptoms. I had arm and chest pain on my left side because of a) torn rotator cuff and pinched nerves and b) really bad GERD, and I'm afeard that one day I will have a heart attack and blow it off because I'm a hypochondriac who is always worrying about something. Is there anything that will make a heart attack particularly obvious, short of death?)

Posted September 14, 2008 10:49 AM by Pixelfish

I'm glad the worst seems to have passed, and I'll be keeping you both in my thoughts.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:52 AM by Jennifer Pelland

Get well, stay strong.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:53 AM by Nick Mamatas

Yeeeep.

*better-health-no-more-surprises wishes heading your way from across the city*

Posted September 14, 2008 10:54 AM by LauraAnne

Thanks so much, Patrick, for giving such a full and soothing report. I'll continue to fret gently anyway, and keep Teresa and you and helper/houseguest Elise in my thoughts.

My fondest wish is for no surprises and a quick exit from the hospital!

Posted September 14, 2008 10:55 AM by Rose White

Best wishes to you both!

I live in fear that something like that might happen to my parents one day, and I'd be on the other side of the world...

Posted September 14, 2008 10:57 AM by Giacomo

Best wishes for a speedy, easy recovery. If you need anything brought to hospital or home while you recover, let me know.

Posted September 14, 2008 10:57 AM by Josh Jasper

Oh dear Lord. Holy Batcakes.

This is going around. The spouse of a writer friend of mine just spent time in the hospital with heart attack symptoms--turns out not, but angioplasty to ream out serious arterial blockage was called for.

For Teresa--may your hospital time be exquisitely boring rather than exciting. Hospital time should be boring, especially for this stuff. Better than the alternative.

Unfortunately, it sounds like dark chocolate and single malt Scotch are contraindicated. For the moment. Still, best wishes and a hope that some of the good things can be sneaking back into your life soon enough...at least until then, we can haz Middle/Old English, right?

And, like Pixelfish at 50, I want to know just how one discerns between worrisome chest pain and chest pain caused by muscle spasm. Mine is caused in part by pressure on particular muscles from underwire bras and such. It does not radiate. BP is good, blood work has been good (but hasn't been done in the past few years).

Posted September 14, 2008 10:59 AM by Joyce Reynolds-Ward

Hail to hero EMTs everywhere, and best wishes etc. The heart being a tough old muscle, after all, and hard to burn. —To natter distractingly about hospitals and such: we recently had a brief, informal tour of the birthing suites at the hospital we intend to use, and the lovely wood floors and the Jacuzzi tub and the fact that labor and delivery and recovery all happen right there in the same place with no unnecessary change of venue is very nice, yes yes, but when they asked if we had any questions the first words out of the Spouse's mouth were, "How's the wifi?"

Should be fully covered by the due date. If not, we'll want an east-facing room, it seems. Best chance of picking up the signal from a lobby one floor down. Lousy views there, but who goes for the view?

Posted September 14, 2008 11:01 AM by Kip Manley

I lurk and never comment here as well, but I've been reading Making Light for five years and it has profoundly shaped how I think about many issues. Teresa and Patrick, you are in my prayers.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:04 AM by Holly P.

Oh dear, so sorry to hear this. Wishing you a short hospital stay marked by nothing more than boredom.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:06 AM by Vanessa

Hay, guise, WTFOMGBBQZZTOP! Don't do that any more, OK? I mean, I wish you hadn't done it the first time but since you already did, stop now, OK?

Thinking good thoughts for you, and at you.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:06 AM by Pat Cadigan

Jeebus! Glad everything seems relatively OK. That really does get the 'understatement of the year' prize. Hope you're feeling back to normal soon.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:06 AM by ADM

Emerging from lurking to wish Teresa continued boredom in the hospital and a speedy and total recovery. My thoughts and prayers are with all of you.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:11 AM by Ellen Asher

Wishing Teresa a full and speedy recovery, and the shortest and most comfortable hospital stay possible. And please don't forget to take care of yourself, Patrick. Eating and sleeping and all that.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:13 AM by Greg van Eekhout

Speedy recovery!

Posted September 14, 2008 11:15 AM by Samantha

Good heavens, I'm glad you were in a place to have medical care respond quickly. I send my best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:18 AM by Mary Robinette Kowal

Adding my voice to the chorus of well-wishers.

May your hospital stay be incredibly dull and life go back to normal quickly.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:18 AM by Hilary Hertzoff

First, to repeat: get better soon, Teresa.

Second, yes that was a good job of burying the lede. I did read that far down that thread, and then was reassured to see a post by Teresa the next day. I didn't quite think that Andy hadn't read that far down until he expressed surprise and dismay on seeing Elise's LJ post about Teresa's heart attack.

And third, points to Patrick for the allusion in the post title. I'm guessing by now you've relaxed enough to appreciate that people are appreciating your phrasing.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:18 AM by Vicki

(Semi-lurker delurks) Take care.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:19 AM by Sajia Kabir

Goddam it!

Best of luck to Teresa and hopes for a speedy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:20 AM by Matt Stevens

have the hospital people been warned about Teresa and Middle English? (Hope she's out sooner than RSN.)

Posted September 14, 2008 11:20 AM by P J Evans

Oh jeez, another deep-lurker surfacing to make sure that Madame Nielsen Hayden, our favorite editrix (editoress?) pulls through in fine fettle. Stay bored; what more, bore your doctors and make your nurses laugh. Keep the bed rails up, just in case they make you laugh.

Brightest blessings on you, and Patrick and Elise for being there to help you Do The Right Thing. Extend those blessings to Jim as well, for teaching us all What To Do.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:21 AM by Mygaera

Boring is very, very good. And I'd imagine that Teresa, more so than almost any other person, has no shortage of good books to read. Although, if someone starts carting over chunks of the slush pile for her, she'll be unbelievably motivated to get well and get out of the hospital as fast as possible...

Thanks for keeping us informed, Patrick. Let me know if there's anything I can do, either now or at the start of VP, to make things easier for you both.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:22 AM by Suzanne

omg. Best wishes to you both, and to Teresa for a speedy and total recovery.

Baby aspirin, eh? *adds to shopping list*

Posted September 14, 2008 11:23 AM by Doctor Science

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:23 AM by Alter S. Reiss

Me too on the wellness wishing at the wishing well - lots of good hippie vibes speeding Teresa-wards from the far northwest.

And oh yeah, boring is good. Very good.

Be healthy, Teresa. And thanks, Patrick, for the update. Even mostly-lurkers care. And fret.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:27 AM by Dena Shunra

Another voice in the chorus. Sending healing energy to Teresa, and coping energy to her as well as Patrick and Elise.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:28 AM by Magenta Griffith

Oh no! Teresa, best wishes for a speedy recovery! We'll try to keep the Internet ticking smoothly in your absence, and we promise not to throw any wild parties.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:29 AM by debcha

Do get well, Teresa.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:29 AM by A.R.Yngve

Here's hoping she can reacquire home-hood in short order, if not shorter order. And thanks for the Tweet; goodness knows when I would have found out about this otherwise.

[ObSheesh: Sheesh! The things some people do to draw folks from far and wide back into the comments at Making Light!]

Posted September 14, 2008 11:29 AM by Ray Radlein

What they said, up there. Get well.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:32 AM by ethan

Best wishes to Teresa and Patrick. Yay for Elise!

Posted September 14, 2008 11:33 AM by Carol Witt

May I recommend Xopher @189 in Remembrances and anniversaries on ways of "keeping a good thought" for someone?

Mez, sending across a MLAC (AB) Care Parcel of health and healing to you, as well as one for the NH household. Hope you got the Councillors you wanted, and sleep enough.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:34 AM by Epacris

Your friends and acquaintances in Sweden are thinking of you and hoping everything turns out all right in the end!

Posted September 14, 2008 11:34 AM by Johan Anglemark

I'm putting my best wishes here, but have already e-mailed 'em to Teresa. I know well what she's experiencing; I had a heart attack in 2006. I didn't call an ambulance -- a friend drove me to the hospital -- and no one could believe I was actually having a heart attack, including the ER docs, until the labs came back. Teresa, wishing you the best outcome: minimal blockage, no surgery necessary, a prescription for a statin drug that you tolerate with no problems, some diet changes, and that's it. You may escape without heart muscle damage: I did. Congratulations for having called 911 immediately. I agree with all above: boring is good. I hope you recover soon and are able to return to your life. Thoughts and prayers...

Posted September 14, 2008 11:38 AM by Lizzy L

i don't get the allusion of the title, but it has thoroughly earwormed me with the old 97s' "murder or a heart attack".

"but i'm leaving the back door open 'til you come hooome again...."

sorry. (but an earworm can count as a form of distraction, right?)

Posted September 14, 2008 11:38 AM by miriam beetle

All I can do is hope that Teresa recovers as swiftly as possible. You're both in my thoughts, for whatever good that may do.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:44 AM by Fragano Ledgister

Yipes!

Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery!
(since everything else important has been said, it seems... :-)

Posted September 14, 2008 11:45 AM by Scott Taylor

Dang it, guys. Sending more GT's from up Texas way.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:45 AM by Julie

My thoughts and best wishes for a speedy recover, and laughter for all of you.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:46 AM by Alberto

!!!!!

Thoughts, good hopes, and prayers coming from here.

Hoping that there remains no excitement in the hospital -- just hanging around, feeling fine, and getting better, until able to come home.

(And I am hearing the echo of my former boss's voice in my head. We were working on methods for earlier diagnosis of risk of myocardial infarction, in an office a few blocks from the local hospital. Every time an ambulance went by the office, he would come in and say "We must work faster!" I'm no longer working on myocardial infarction, but I am working on risk assessment for arrhythmia. I must work faster!)

Posted September 14, 2008 11:49 AM by Caroline

Get well soon, Teresa.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:49 AM by Dawno

Oh, fuck! I'm glad she's ok and that you both reacted as quickly as you did. All my best to both of you...get well soon, hang in there, and so forth.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:53 AM by Mary Dell

Very sorry to hear this, but glad she's doing OK. Thanks for posting, and my best wishes to both of you.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:53 AM by language hat

As a hospital veteran, I can tell you that boredom is a good symptom in a patient. It's even better when the doctors get bored.

Get well soon.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:54 AM by Michael

Sympathies and best wishes.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:54 AM by Dave Romm

Industrial Strength HealingWishes are on their way to Teresa Fed Ex. Fortitude for you and Elise.

(Lifestyle changes. Oy. Insert age cliche here.)

Posted September 14, 2008 11:54 AM by D. Potter

Oh gosh. So much can happen while we're entertaining my aged mother on one of her rare visits to Reading. General echoing of what everybody says about Getting Well Soon.

What I first saw was a truncated subject line on a mailing list: "Theresa Nielsen Hayden suffers (minor) hear", and it took a moment to realize how this had to continue. As a deafish fan I've been suffering from minor hear all my life.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:55 AM by Dave Langford

Adding to the chorus--thoughts and prayers, to both of you.

Posted September 14, 2008 11:56 AM by Mary Frances

Oh, dear. Best wishes, and get well soon!

Posted September 14, 2008 11:56 AM by Mark

More (gentle) hugs and best wishes for a complete recovery, and here's hoping the 'lifestyle changes' will be minimal.

Oh, and many thanks to the EMTs!

Posted September 14, 2008 11:58 AM by CaseyL

To Teresa: Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Thanks, Patrick, for posting.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:01 PM by Janet

Let me join everyone in wishing you well.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:03 PM by Erik Nelson

Teresa: Best wishes for a steady and boring recovery. Well done on calling 9-1-1 sooner rather than later, and for posting about it; reminding us about the clinical signs of heart attacks could save more lives.

Pixelfish @ 50: Heart attack pain is much more intense, and is accompanied by pressure. GERD radiates along the esophagus, and shoulder pain is fairly confined to the area of use. Heart attacks generally are also accompanied by other signs, like "indigestion" (which is classic in women), anxiety, nausea (because of the severe pain), and hemodynamic signs -- paleness, sweating, loss of energy.

In any case, if you are concerned about the pain, and can't identify it definitively as GERD/rotator cuff, just take precautions and at least call a doctor or drop in to the nearest urgent care facility -- some cities are now developing Urgent Care facilities to relieve the pressures on ERs.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:05 PM by Ginger

Get well soon, Teresa.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:08 PM by Charles

So far, so good, right?

Good healing thoughts coming your way. Take it easy, get well.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:09 PM by Janice in GA

Not much to say except joining everyone else in wishing you both well. Hope normal life resumes quickly.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:11 PM by Didi

Teresa, feel better, soon.

More entertainment links:
Tease,
(the full episode),
Good Andy Hooper play.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:13 PM by Lenny Bailes

Glad to hear everything is under control. Best wishes as always, and a speedy recovery for TNH!

Posted September 14, 2008 12:14 PM by Pablo Defendini

Wish I had something more profound to say, but I'll stick with everyone else. Good luck, and feel better!

Posted September 14, 2008 12:16 PM by Patrick Weekes

Get well Teresa and hang in there Patrick. I'll keep you both in my prayers.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:17 PM by Randy Paul

Gawd. Very best wishes to you both.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:17 PM by Graham Sleight

Wishing you all the best. And that's a plural 'you' -Teresa for the obvious reasons, and everybody else who worries because you can never have too much support.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:19 PM by green_knight

"Burying the lede," indeed. That'll show me for not returning to the comments in Abi's thread on Friday, after having read the first 134 late Thursday night. Thank you for the update and added details here.

I'm glad the heart attack was a mild one, much as I understand how life-changing "mild" major medical conditions can be. If a friend with a car can be of any help between now and the start of Viable Paradise can be of any help, please call or write. My schedule is in one of those times where it's relatively easy to be flexible about where I am.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:19 PM by Geri Sullivan

Get well soon!

Posted September 14, 2008 12:20 PM by Iorwerth Thomas

And of course this happens when I'm helping copyedit some text for a cardiac equipment company (they make emergency defibrillators and test/monitor equitpment...). Makes note to self not to start studying hemorrhagic fevers. Thoughts and wishes, as sent elsewhere.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:23 PM by Tom Whitmore

Prayers, hopes, good wishes.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:23 PM by rm

Oh my. Scary! Best wishes to all.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:24 PM by Beth Nachison

Ack! I'm sorry to hear this.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:25 PM by Shana

Good heavens!

Get well soon Teresa. I'll be praying for you.

don

Posted September 14, 2008 12:28 PM by don delny

I wish you a short and boring hospital stay, Teresa!

Posted September 14, 2008 12:29 PM by TexAnne

Yikes! Please add our best wishes for a full recovery to the multitude.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:31 PM by CaoPaux

You're both in my thoughts and prayers, guys. Anything we can do, please don't hesitate an instant before telling us.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:33 PM by Emma Bull

Holy yikes! I'm glad to hear that she's recovering. Thinking good thoughts for both of you.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:43 PM by Adam Sanford

Just another voice in the chorus here... Get well soon, Theresa.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:45 PM by arkessian

Hoping for a rapid recovery and no lasting ill effects.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:48 PM by Kristine Smith

124th-ing the best wishes, and relief. [gets off chair, onto bike]

Posted September 14, 2008 12:49 PM by Angiportus

So sorry to hear this.

Best wishes for a boring hospital stay and a quick and complete recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:51 PM by Elyse Grasso

What a scare. I wish you both a rapid and total recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:51 PM by Tam

My fil has been through this three times this year. Our family's best wishes to yours for a speedy and answer-filled recovery.

We all really hated the not-knowing parts.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:52 PM by LizT

Heal well, Teresa. Thinking of you here.

Posted September 14, 2008 12:53 PM by Janni

I'll add my voice to the chorus of "get better soon and have this turn out to be minor plzkthx!". But - for all of you who are wishing her boredom in the hospital (though I know exactly where you're coming from and why you say it), every time I see that I think "Hasn't Patrick brought her a pile of BOOKS to read yet? Not to edit, just to read?"... I know, from previous experience, that if I ever again have to go, and have time to prepare, one thing I'll HAVE to take is a brown grocery-bag full (approx.) of paperbacks to read.

--Dave

Posted September 14, 2008 12:54 PM by David DeLaney

Raising a bowl of oatmeal for your speedy return home!

Posted September 14, 2008 12:59 PM by Tara

I'm another lurker, popping up to wish Teresa a quick, simple and complete recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:00 PM by Rymenhild

Bother. I can't think of anything more difficult than just lying there and letting people take care of you, Teresa, but you'll just have to put up with it so you can be well soon, because you are necessary, all around.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:02 PM by JESR

I send my best wishes to both of you. Theresa, here's to a speedy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:03 PM by Janna Silverstein

Oh, jeeze. Get better soon. My thoughts are with you.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:03 PM by Dan Layman-Kennedy

Goodness, I spotted the "buried lede", but when I realised that Teresa was still moderating Boingboing, I figured it wasn't anything so serious. Don't those guys give you sick leave, Teresa?

Seriously, though, get well soon. And I know hospital's boring but find something to do less aggravating than quashing CATFOCFICkers, please?

Posted September 14, 2008 1:04 PM by NelC

Best wishes for Teresa's full and healthy recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:04 PM by Teka

Good wishes here, as well -- wondering if we should all conspire to find Teresa a fine nightcap for her stay in bed... ;)

Posted September 14, 2008 1:06 PM by xeger

Holy hell. Here's hoping for a speedy, or at least thorough, recovery.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:07 PM by Josh Millard

Very best wishes for the most positive of outcomes, and sincerest sympathies to all in the meantime.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:07 PM by Juliet E McKenna

Yikes. Get well, Teresa.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:12 PM by Remus Shepherd

I've already sent my love, but I'll repeat what everyone else has said: Boredom is okay, considering, as Maurice Chevalier put it, The Alternative. Both of you stay well, please.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:12 PM by Madeleine Robins

Best wishes!

Posted September 14, 2008 1:13 PM by mk

Eek. All appendages crossed here for a quick and lasting recovery, and the good health of both of you.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:14 PM by Leah Bobet

Nothing creative to say; just hang in there, and I'll be directing a few choice words to the Entity upstairs.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:15 PM by Emma

Hokey smokes. Am glad all involved are being well-looked-after; will keep wishes for T's speedy recovery in my heart. I hope somebody has taken her knitting bag to her; that may help.

I would also like to apologize at this time, because when when I read the phrase "impressively well-equipped paramedics" my brain went all Edward Gorey/The Curious Sofa on me and I had to stop and snicker like a 14-year-old.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:17 PM by Andrew Willett

Health issues = sucky
Good care = Excellent
Being bored (rather than the alternative) = Not so bad, eh?

Sending good health thoughts and prayers your direction, and extremely glad it's not far worse.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:19 PM by Bruce Adelsohn

All my best wishes for a full and speedy recovery, Teresa, and as mentioned "elsewhere" you and PNH and all your assorted caregivers are in my prayers.

Patrick, thanks for posting this for all of us who'd heard only the bare minimum elsewhere and had been waiting, hopefully, for an "official bulletin". I for one was greatly relieved to learn (among other reliefs) that TNH's previous ML post was timestamped well after the stressful occurrences of the previous day. . .

Harriet
who'd been staring bemusedly at
the juxtaposition of the words
"Bring It On!" and "Teresa"

Posted September 14, 2008 1:19 PM by Harriet Culver

Thinking of you all, and glad you took the warning signs seriously.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

And thank you, Jim, for writing that piece about warning signs.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:20 PM by whump

well, that's a little more excitement than you really needed. my best wishes to you all, and i hope teresa gets to be bored at home rather than bored at the hospital very soon now.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:22 PM by betsyl

I'm just another fan who has enjoyed seeing you at cons. First heard about this is Elise's LJ, but glad you posted with more details.
Hope Teresa is back on her feet soonest. Hospitals are most definitely a drag.
*hugs* to Teresa. Patrick, make sure you take care of yourself. Elise, make sure he does so. Healing Energy to all.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:23 PM by Lisa Harrigan

Eep! Get well soon! I look forward to the many informative threads on "lifestyle changes" that will no doubt be forthcoming.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:23 PM by Stephanie Leary

Teresa, sorry you're in a boring place, but not as sorry as I'd be if you weren't. Enjoy that boredom!

Posted September 14, 2008 1:25 PM by will shetterly

If wishes would make you well, I'd send you ten thousand. The spirit of the fountain dies not.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:30 PM by Ron Drummond

Boredom is good, by comparison.

Thinking about you both, which, by the above, appears be a drop in a whole tsunami of thought.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:30 PM by martyn

Thanks for this, Patrick--I found out last night through Elise's livejournal, but I would have never found the buried lede otherwise.

You're all in my thoughts, Teresa most of all.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:36 PM by Sharon Mock

fingers crossed for a safe/speedy recovery--hope Teresa's out of that hospital quick.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:37 PM by David J. Williams

My wishes for a speedy and as-complete-as-possible recovery add little those amassed above, but here they are.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:37 PM by Michael Turyn

Get better soon, and here's to a full and speedy recovery

Posted September 14, 2008 1:41 PM by Sica

Thank you for the update, Patrick. I've been worried.

Like it's been said here, boring is good. I'm happy about boring. I'm very, very happy you guys are safe.

Good luck convincing Teresa that the nitro needs to be reserved as medicine.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:41 PM by Zak

Holy hell. Well, that's certainly the wrong kind of excitement. You're both in my thoughts. Speedy recovery, Teresa.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:43 PM by Suzanne M

All our best wishes and hope for full recovery -- gossibs are uncommon, and to be kept safe and well!

Posted September 14, 2008 1:43 PM by Kat and Jamie

All best wishes for speedy recovery and no re-occurances. Things do sound positive, thank goodness!

Love, C.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:45 PM by Constance

Adding to the chorus of Get Well Soon. And reminding Patrick and Elise to take care of of themselves, too.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:47 PM by Mary Aileen

My sympathies to you both and my wishes for a speedy recovery for Teresa.

I'm glad she knew what to do and that she received such prompt and effective treatment.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:51 PM by MikeF

May the medical people be as bored as Teresa is, if not more so. Here's to a swift and complete recovery. And hey, you guys who aren't in the hospital, eat something and get some sleep.

P.

Posted September 14, 2008 1:52 PM by Pamela Dean

Another longtime lurker sending best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.

Epacris @83, thanks for posting that link to Xopher's suggestion on prayer. And Xopher, thanks for writing it up in the first place. I think I'll find that very he