Cousin Jimmy from Georgia
Vicki and Pastor Collier
This man has been a great source of comfort & strength for Sarah!!
Awesome card from Naomi in California!!
Sarah's favorite Food Service worker at St. Francis. He sang to her every time he brought her tray in, and came by just to say goodbye before she left! He was AWESOME!!! It's 9:00 Thursday night, first night after surgery. I've decided to blog a little at a time. Partly to keep everybody informed, and partly just to help me remember what all of these Doctors say.
So, what I write up here could change by the time you get to the bottom of the blog!! That seems to be the way things have been going. One tells you one thing and another tells you something totally different.
The bad news today was that they had to take the whole top of the hip out, but the good news is that she can still sit up, maybe with some adaptive equipment. They will get her up tomorrow see how that works out.
I have to say that I have never been as freaked out by any of her surgeries as I have this one. This makes number 18, and I've gotten pretty used
to seeing all sorts of things, but I just couldn't bear to look at this one. When I first went in to her room, I thought I was gonna to pass out, I was so nervous. When we couldn't cath her and had to call special nurses in, I had to sit down while they worked on her. The one nurse was leaning all over her and putting her weight on that hip, and it just made me sick, even though I knew Sarah couldn't feel it. That's the blessing in all of this, she has no feeling from the waist down, so she is not in any pain, except for the extra IV line they put in her shoulder and a bad headache.
I finally did look at the surgical site, and it's not as bad as I had envisioned. The hip incision has about 12 stitches, and they had to make the actual pressure sore a little bigger, but it was small on the outside to start with, so it's not that bad. That didn't worry me as much as the fact that her leg was laying in a position it had never been able to lay in before. That was VERY freaky!
I still have a little problem with the leg. I'm just not used to it being so loose and moving in odd ways. But we both were really worried that there was going to be some type of disfiguring "hole" where her hip was, and that's not the case. To look at her, it looks the same as usual. PRAISE GOD!!!!!
Today is Saturday, 2 days after surgery. My what a change in our outlook!! God has moved mountains and performed miracles (again), and we are soooo thankful!!!!!!!!!! Sarah can sit up, she can move around in the bed by herself, she even transferred off the bed with a little assistance (that's normal for right after surgery). Even though things were so touch and go for a while, it's actually been one of the easier surgeries for her because it was below her line of feeling, so she's had no pain associated with the surgery.
There have been so many questions and uncertainties, but the major ones have proven to be no contest for God. The last test will be sitting in the wheelchair. Hopefully she won't need any adaptive devices, but if she does, we can deal with it now, knowing that that's the worst of her problems!! We had asked that nobody visit until we had more answers and were more comfortable with dealing with the outcome of the surgery, and I think that time has come. Sarah was talking everybody's ears off tonight, and texting all of her Facebook buddies. She says she's ready for company!!
She's doing well enough that she let me come home today to wash clothes, ship out eBay stuff, and post this blog. Even though my store was on "Vacation", I've still sold a ton of stuff. The only difference was that they got a notice that I wouldn't be able to ship out right away. Thank God I had that option!!
My precious little boy sold the only reliable vehicle he had while we were here, then sold "ragabomb", the junker Rob aptly named that was trashing up my driveway, lol!! Yesterday he bought a new Junker, but this one is a little better than the last few. It's a 4runner, not an embarrassment Rob says, I don't have to worry about it parked in front of the house. That's the good thing I guess :-) I've lost count now, but I think he's had about 278 vehicles in his 3 short years of driving!!!!!!!!!!!
(I only exaggerate a TINY bit)
As I type this I am itching to go Christmas shopping. I've read magazines and seen commercials and everybody is talking Christmas, but I haven't bought the first gift yet. We've already decided that both holidays will be very simple this year. There's no time or energy for the "all out" decorating and cooking, and we will be so busy this next month with Drs. appointments and nursing care leading up to the next surgery, so the simpler the better in this house.....thank goodness my kids are old enough to pick out their own stuff, and usually do, so that's all I'm concerned about right now, taking care of them!!! But I still want to SHOP!!!!!!!!!
I guess I better go for now, I don't think there will be any changes in Sarah's routine today since it's Sunday, but we should find out a little more about when she can come home and what type of care she needs once she gets here tomorrow. I'll keep you posted on Facebook, as usual!!!
The hotel St. Mary's
So, what I write up here could change by the time you get to the bottom of the blog!! That seems to be the way things have been going. One tells you one thing and another tells you something totally different.
The bad news today was that they had to take the whole top of the hip out, but the good news is that she can still sit up, maybe with some adaptive equipment. They will get her up tomorrow see how that works out.
I have to say that I have never been as freaked out by any of her surgeries as I have this one. This makes number 18, and I've gotten pretty used
to seeing all sorts of things, but I just couldn't bear to look at this one. When I first went in to her room, I thought I was gonna to pass out, I was so nervous. When we couldn't cath her and had to call special nurses in, I had to sit down while they worked on her. The one nurse was leaning all over her and putting her weight on that hip, and it just made me sick, even though I knew Sarah couldn't feel it. That's the blessing in all of this, she has no feeling from the waist down, so she is not in any pain, except for the extra IV line they put in her shoulder and a bad headache.
I finally did look at the surgical site, and it's not as bad as I had envisioned. The hip incision has about 12 stitches, and they had to make the actual pressure sore a little bigger, but it was small on the outside to start with, so it's not that bad. That didn't worry me as much as the fact that her leg was laying in a position it had never been able to lay in before. That was VERY freaky!
I still have a little problem with the leg. I'm just not used to it being so loose and moving in odd ways. But we both were really worried that there was going to be some type of disfiguring "hole" where her hip was, and that's not the case. To look at her, it looks the same as usual. PRAISE GOD!!!!!
Today is Saturday, 2 days after surgery. My what a change in our outlook!! God has moved mountains and performed miracles (again), and we are soooo thankful!!!!!!!!!! Sarah can sit up, she can move around in the bed by herself, she even transferred off the bed with a little assistance (that's normal for right after surgery). Even though things were so touch and go for a while, it's actually been one of the easier surgeries for her because it was below her line of feeling, so she's had no pain associated with the surgery.
There have been so many questions and uncertainties, but the major ones have proven to be no contest for God. The last test will be sitting in the wheelchair. Hopefully she won't need any adaptive devices, but if she does, we can deal with it now, knowing that that's the worst of her problems!! We had asked that nobody visit until we had more answers and were more comfortable with dealing with the outcome of the surgery, and I think that time has come. Sarah was talking everybody's ears off tonight, and texting all of her Facebook buddies. She says she's ready for company!!
She's doing well enough that she let me come home today to wash clothes, ship out eBay stuff, and post this blog. Even though my store was on "Vacation", I've still sold a ton of stuff. The only difference was that they got a notice that I wouldn't be able to ship out right away. Thank God I had that option!!
My precious little boy sold the only reliable vehicle he had while we were here, then sold "ragabomb", the junker Rob aptly named that was trashing up my driveway, lol!! Yesterday he bought a new Junker, but this one is a little better than the last few. It's a 4runner, not an embarrassment Rob says, I don't have to worry about it parked in front of the house. That's the good thing I guess :-) I've lost count now, but I think he's had about 278 vehicles in his 3 short years of driving!!!!!!!!!!!
(I only exaggerate a TINY bit)
As I type this I am itching to go Christmas shopping. I've read magazines and seen commercials and everybody is talking Christmas, but I haven't bought the first gift yet. We've already decided that both holidays will be very simple this year. There's no time or energy for the "all out" decorating and cooking, and we will be so busy this next month with Drs. appointments and nursing care leading up to the next surgery, so the simpler the better in this house.....thank goodness my kids are old enough to pick out their own stuff, and usually do, so that's all I'm concerned about right now, taking care of them!!! But I still want to SHOP!!!!!!!!!
I guess I better go for now, I don't think there will be any changes in Sarah's routine today since it's Sunday, but we should find out a little more about when she can come home and what type of care she needs once she gets here tomorrow. I'll keep you posted on Facebook, as usual!!!
The hotel St. Mary's
P.S. One more little surprise for Sarah when she reads this blog: Bobby just got back from Best Buy with your Brand New Laptop!!!! Now......can we have ours back????????? Love ya girlie!!!!!!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment