Getting out of the hospital today

I am going to a place near here. It is a 'skilled nursing facility' aka a nursing home. I'm not too happy but it won't be forever. My incision still needs care. I will be getting 'some' therapy there but not a whole lot. Seems like I will be spending a lot of time alone because I will have a private room.

I may not have access to the internet there. (I HOPE I DO) If that is true, I will be in touch by phone.

This is not the best situation by any means. It's further from you all, and further from my parents.

And I will come home in much the same condition I am currently in....tired and sore from any little movement.

I'm trying to look at the bright side. If anyone can help me find it, pls call me. I'll probably be in the hospital for much of the afternoon.

Almost home

Happy New Year everybody! I miss you all SO much. It's hard to lay here day after day, and never see one of you.

My parents do visit everyday so I am happy about that.

I know that a message went out yesterday saying I would be released to a rehab center in Richmond tomorrow.

That's sort of correct. Right after I mentioned that, the social worker came in and said that they were having a very hard time convincing the rehab centers in our area that they should take me. I'm not sure why.

So, I am going to be at a rehab center in this area. It's only going to be for two weeks. So, I think I can deal with that. As for leaving Wednesday for the rehab center, that is probable but tentative. The infectious disease doctor has to agree to this too.

On that note, it turns out that I do not have VRE, which is very good news. I'm back on Vancomycin for my other infection.

So, I know that I have been gone a very long time. I am sorry. I miss you all terribly. Hopefully I will have a phone and be able to receive mail at the new place. If I get internet access I will keep up this blog.

Some complications

I am sorry I didn't write yesterday. I was sort of out of it because of some medicine they gave me, which I am no longer taking.

Two infections now need to be treated. MRSA was bad enough, but I now have another infection. That infection, VRE, is resistant to Vancomycin, the antibiotic of choice to treat MRSA.

Regarding these infections, I want to reassure you, they cannot be transmitted through are everyday contact.

I am supposed to be discharged on Monday. However, I do not know where I might be going. Probably not back home yet. I feel like, the doctor that started treating me, should be the one that continues. So I will either go back to my mother's, or, more likely, a rehabilitation place here. I am SOOO glad I have wireless internet.

So that's the story. I absolutely love reading the comments to my posts. Keep them coming! I will be home soon.

Back in the hospital again

Well, I had a good Christmas with my parents. The day after Christmas I started having UNIMAGINABLE pain, and a few other problems. Long story short, I was taken by ambulance to a hospital near my mom. I was in the emergency room all night. I finally got to a room a few hours ago. They have already done some radical things to start the healing process in my incision.

I will be here for a few (3, according to the doctor) days. Then, I am not sure where I am going, but I still won't be able to be by myself. **sigh**
Please pray for me. This is starting to get old. Having surgery, recovering, getting complications, and going back into the hospital.

I miss being home, back at the life I know.

In a completely unrelated note, my mother told me about this link, which is funny but kind of sweet, a cappella singing.

http://kennyanderson.blogspot.com/2007/12/12-days-of-christmas-mens-cappella.html

Peace.

Merry Christmas!

This has been a tough week. But it is fitting that the week would end with Christmas. The birth of the Savior. The start of a whole new way of..everything.

I have been celebrating the holiday with family, doing all the usual Christmas things. Except going to church. I am bedridden mostly, so actually getting out to go to church is impossible. I am struggling a LOT with my relationship with Christ right now. I miss the days where the Bible was the only book I was really reading, and I spent lots of time in quiet times. Life has just gotten so complicated lately.

For those who are praying for me, I just ask that you pray for my relationships with Christ and my family. It's really hard to feel like I am part of things, when everyone is so focused on my physical problems. Also, pls pray for wisdom for me, because I have a few post-op problems (excessively swelling, and the incision is not totally closing.

OK, I am sorry this was so long. I am doing 'ok', just not where I figured I would be one week after surgery. I miss my apartment, and my friends, and going to church.

But this is a season of looking forward to new things, so I will do that today!

I'm free

I was discharged from the hospital yesterday, and I am at my mother's house for at least a week. Please pray for me, because I am having a whole lot of pain that I didn't experience in the hospital.

Things are moving along

It looks about 95% sure that I am leaving the hospital to go to my mother's house tomorrow. However, due to some medications that alleviated one problem (see 'Harrowing' post), I have a whole different problem. So, I won't be 100% certain until I talk to the doctor tomorrow.



This has been an interesting experience. I've never had my laptop in the hospital before, and it is really great to be able to keep up this blog! And I had been stressing because my last hospital stay was so very long, and being close to the holidays and all. But everything has gone very well this time. Praise God!

I will not be able to be at Christmas Eve Service this year, because I will still be recovering from surgery. I intend to keep this blog going for a few more weeks, though I might need to change the title. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday! I know that I will, because I will be with family.

Peace.

ANYONE can comment now

I figured out how to set this account so you don't NEED a Google account to make comments. Sorry I didn't figure this out earlier.

Harrowing experience

Sorry I didn't write yesterday folks. Ive been going through a lot. Mostly as it pertains to food. I can take in food with no issue. But it just wants to stay with me, and the docs say this is a problem. It is getting better however, and it looks good for my going home tomorrow!

I will be going straight from the hospital to my mother's house, for at least 2 weeks. I am able to sit up and go places in my wheelchair but I am not really able to bend at all. Linda Compton will be looking after my apartment(Thank you Linda!). And hopefully, I will have wireless internet at my mother's house so I can keep up the blog.

Well, that is it folks. I would like you to pray that I can continue to digest food normally, and that I can start moving wit h less pain!

Thank you.