Dear Emily...

 

I had something
very different
original and
very angry
ready to
post but I
chickened out
for the moment.

It only hurts when I...

laugh, stand up, sit down, lay down, get up,
cough and gawdforbid sneeze.

Home from the hospital on Saturday.
Progress is never fast enough, is it?
They're telling me 3-4 weeks before I'll be
approaching normal. Such is life.

I'm more worried about Carol. She's been
in the hospital since Nov. 30, initially for a 
severe UTI. They took care of that but have
been struggling with clearing pneumonia.
She had one chemo treatment but of course
that is all on hold for who knows how long. 

They put her on 24/7 oxygen as of today and
visitors have to wear masks. They don't seem 
to have answers just trial and error and wait
and see what happens.

Ann is still being the one who takes care of us.
At least being home now I can deal with bills. 

 edit: I am an airhead.
Forgot to mention the reason I was in the hospital this time
was for the ostomy reversal surgery. No more bag!

Here's the scoop, boys and girls...

Sister Ann is waiting for an MRI to make sure the big blob
in her sinuses isn't making a return.
She's been taking on a lot of responsibilities to make up for
Carol and I being restricted duds lately. Bless her heart.
I don't know what we would do without her.

Carol has started her new chemo treatment routines to
deal with the tumor in her lung (metastacized  from her colon.)
They put a port in her chest last week. When she goes for
treatment chemo gets run through the port, plus they attach
a pump to the port to dose her with even more meds. Five
drugs in all. The procedure takes about three hours and she
has to come home with the pump. We take her back after two
days to have the pump disconnected and the port flushed.
Repeat every two weeks.
So far the side effects are minimal. The big thing for right now
is that she is sleeping a lot. Supposedly that will taper off in time
and her energy level will get better. I hope so and so does she.
As of right now her treatments are scheduled through April.

As for me... I'm scheduled for reversal surgery December 2.
One day short of three months since the emergency surgery
and attaching the ostomy bag. I am a happy camper.
Now all I need to do is figure out how to prevent this cluster-fuck
from ever happening again. 
If all goes well after surgery (meaning the bowels go back to
working the way they're supposed to) I should get to come home
about three days later.

Keep your fingers and toes crossed for all three of us, please. 

Thanksgiving...

 

Sometimes easier said than done...