How not to build a 750/1500 gallon build thread

[SkolPaFisken]

Hey Khaos, get better man! I will be praying for you!

I am willing to help out with some MH lights (you mentioned earlier that you needed some lighting). Problem is that I cannot install them for you (I'm in michigan).

I'll happily send them along if you can use them for awile (they are Icecap 250W SE MH with retro reflector; old bulbs but functioning bulbs).

Let me know if you want to use them for awhile.

Is anyone near him that can help out keeping his reef cycleing while he recovers?? I'd hate to see the whole thing crash while he is healing?!?!?!?

 

[Map69]

Get well soon Khaos. Take time to recover and recoup. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Please keep us posted.

 

[tholton33]

I'll add my wishes to the lot. You inspired a lot of people and wether you knew it or not made a lot of new friends as well. Get well soon. I'm sure I can vouch for many here, that if I were closer I would help you with you huge tank! Good luck and my prayers are with you and your family.

 

[skirossi]

Thank you for the entertaining build, my prayers are with you for a speedy recovery.

 

[tdfd]

You seem like a rightous guy, best of luck.

 

[phil121]

I love this thread! Sorry to hear you are down for a while. I will be praying for you.

 

[Packersfan21]

I just read through all of this thread. It took me almost 3 hours to get through, and I thought everthing looked really good... until now. Hopefully you'll be home soon and have a quick recovery.

 

[moovinfast]

Hope everything goes well.

You said you had two anemones after they split but now you only have one. I know why. I think I found it in a hole in one of the pieces of live rock I got from you. It came out the other day and I couldnt figure out what it was. Let me know if you want it back and I can try to figure out a way to get it back to you.

 

[nitro4kthompson]

I have enjoyed this thread, and was sorry to hear about Khaosinc's turn for the worse. I am a medical professional and I will hope that he is in the best medically trained hands possible. Unfortunately, most people do suffer some setbacks after major surgery. Let's all hope he gets back on his feet quickly.

 

[gowingsgo]

My family's thoughts and prayers go out to you and your's

 

[RumLad]

Damn bro, you got to slow down a wee bit and let your body heal. My prayers and best wishes go out for a full recovery from this latest set back.
Hopefully someone nearby can keep the tank functioning, but better we concern ourselves with keeping the man alive first!

 

[BrianD]

Best wishes for a quick recovery.

 

[Korrine]

omg, what happened?? Is he doing better?

Hope for a speedy recovery!!!! Really quick and easy recovery.

 

[Nanz]

What a very exciting thread. We will be praying for him. Please take care and Good Luck

 

[BangkokMatt]

Wow - get better soon. My thoughts are with you.

 

[DmitriyY]

I will be praying for you.

 

[dogstar74]

Good luck man.

Aaron

 

[Gwynhidwy]

Best wishes and get well soon!

 

[sidjam]

Hope you get well soon.

 

[khaosinc]

Hi, all. It's Khaos' girlfriend (Tink) again.
Well, a million things have happened since I last posted so I'll try to sum it up and keep it to the point (plus I'm functioning on very little sleep and if I get caught up in details this post could get squirrely).
This is what we know: He has tested positive for a staph infection at the incision area of his heart surgery. He was brought into the operating room and the surgeon had to make some decisions about how deep to go and clean up being that an infection like this could easily spread to other places once he's opened up and it could make things worse to go poking around in there.
What it comes down to is they made the decision to detach his sternum into two for the time being (he is laying there with his chest literally wide open right now with what looks like saran wrap and iodine over it).
We DON'T know if it's spread to the heart. We are going to have him taken to the OR every few days for a week to go in and clean. After that, we will guage if we will risk going even deeper into the chest cavity and seeing what we will discover. This will be based on his clinical signs.
His sternum will heal spread apart like that. Eventually he'll need reconstructive surgery or a metal plate put in to hold his chest together..but that's in the future.
Everything is day by day. We don't have all the answers. He is in a lot of pain and being given pain medication every five minutes and continuously sedated.
This morning he began coughing up blood and they made the decision to remove the ventilator as it was aggravating this. He is now on a BiPap machine which stabalized him and helped him greatly last time he was in.
Things are touch and go. It's just wait and see.