Friday, August 14, 2009

An Update . . .

First, let me say . . . that my friends have been terrific these last 2 weeks . . . this photo is from a card that came with a very nice gift from my friend, Nicole . . . something to help lift up my spirits . . . and lift them up she sure did . . .
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so the update . . . Mom came home a week ago last Tues. . . . with a special diet . . . and instructions to take things very easy . . . we met with the surgeon in Boston this past Monday . . . and need to see him again the end of August after he has totally reviewed everything and decided exactly what will be done . . . she will be having surgery sometime in September . . . we do know that it will be a tough surgery . . . with a pretty long recovery . . . but she has such a strong spirit . . . and such a great attitude . . .
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now . . . to make matters worse . . . in as short a story as I can tell . . . 2 days after Mom came home . . . I went to a local chain pharmacy to get some things for Mom . . . and pick up her Rx's . . . didn't see a huge puddle on the floor . . . and fell . . .
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I won't go into all the details . . . except to say I did a kick like I haven't done since I was 14 . . . and then landed in a split . . . and immediately passed out . . . I've torn all the muscles, tendons, and ligaments from the bottom of my butt to my ankle . . . the pain has been incredible . . . I wasn't able to sit at all for the first 5 days . . .
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this couldn't have come at a worse time . . . but then again . . . is there ever a good time for something like this . . . Mom says it was so I would slow down . . .
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but thanks to my doctor giving me some prednisone to help with the inflammation . . . and the best physical therapist a person could have who has been using ultrasound and electronic stimulation on it all . . . I am getting better every day . . . at least I am finally sitting . . . not pain free . . . but sitting . . . for short periods of time . . .
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the deep down pain is pretty good now . . . and has mostly turned into a real soreness . . . my sciatic is still bothering me . . . but I'm hoping by Monday I will be good enough to drive . . . and try to get back to normal activities . . .
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sooooooooo . . . hopefully this is the END of bad news . . . now that I can sit for a short time I am going to try to get some sewing in this weekend . . . that will pick up my spirits . . . and maybe I will finally have something good to post . . .

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Thank You ! !

Thank you to all of you who have written to me saying you are praying for my Mom . . . it means so very much to me . . .
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I've tried to reply to all of you . . . but could not find some of your email addressees . . . so if you didn't get an email from me . . . just know I tried . . . and I am very grateful to you . . .
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I will be writing an update on Mom's condition as soon as I have a few minutes to get it done . . . things are still a little crazy here . . . but decisions have been made . . .
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Thanks again . . . and know that I am offering a prayer for each of you . . . for whatever might be happening in your life too . . . I know we all have our own crosses to bear in life . . ..

Monday, August 3, 2009

What a TERRIBLE Weekend !!

Hydrangeas are my favorite flower . . . so delicate looking . . . but so able to stand up to bad weather etc . . . and such a sign to me that God is watching over us . . . and right now I really need to know that HE is . . . and I DO !!
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I had the day off on Friday . . . and it was my birthday . . . I had planned to sleep in . . . then sew the entire day . . . that's how I wanted to spend my day !!
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well I did sleep in . . . got up at 10:00 . . . put on the coffee and was going to sew right after that . . . decided to call to check on my 81 year old Mom . . . she sounded terrible . . . she said she was having one of her colitis attacks but that this one was worse than any she had ever had before . . .
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I prepared to get dressed and get myself to her house . . . things just got worse over the next 30 minutes . . . long long story . . . just let me say . . . that we took her by ambulance to the local hospital . . .
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we stayed there all day while they ran test after test . . . trying to figure this out . . . again long story . . . finally I called her gastroenterologist who happens to be at another hospital about 20 miles away . . . he said . . . "have her transferred over here . . . I am on duty all weekend" . . .
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so at 4:30 p.m. that's what we did . . . put her into another ambulance and transferred her . . . then drove ourselves to that hospital . . . where they did more tests . . . and more tests . . .
I got home at 9:30 p.m. . . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!
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actually . . . I really don't care about the birthday . . . hopefully I will get to celebrate another one next year . . . right now I just want my mother to get well . . .
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it's been a really trying weekend . . . more tests . . . lots of procedures . . . and now it looks like she is going to need some major surgery . . . which needs to be done at a hospital in Boston . . . so she is looking at another ambulance ride . . . poor thing !!
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we should know in the next hour or so just what she is going to be facing . . . so I'm praying like crazy . . . and just hoping it will all turn out good . . .
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needless to say . . . no sewing this past weekend . . .
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if you read this . . . please say a little prayer for her . . . thanks friends . . .