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.

Another day

So far, so good. Yes, I am having pain from the surgery, but it is OK. I still believe I will get out on Friday or Saturday though the doctor hasn't confirmed that yet. We are waiting for biopsy results, which we are feeling very optomistic about.

Thank you to everyone who has sent cards and notes! And thank you for calling, and for leaving messages on the blog (WHO is penguini?) And especially thank you for all your prayers. You are all very special to me.

Have a wonderful day.
God bless all of you.

Peace.

Successful surgery

I decided to create a blog, so that my friends from church, my family, and friends around the country, could all know what is going on with me.Surgery was 730 AM on Monday, and I understand it went very well. They were able to remove the whole cyst, and only a small piece of healthy tissue had to be removed.

I am actually doing quite well right now. I was able to get up in my wheelchair for about 15 minutes this morning. It's funny how such a seemingly little thing can make me feel so much better. I guess that's what I learn when I am in the hospital. Life slows down so much that I take pleasure of the smallest things. Eating solid foods, sitting up briefly in my wheelchair..small signs that things are getting better.

Having my computer in my hospital room is a real blessing. I can reach the 'outside' world in a manner of seconds.

Please forgive typos. I have a monitor attached to a finger, so it is harder to type.

Feel free to post comments to this blog. I hope to continue this daily through the next month or so, as a way of chronicling my progress, and sharing prayer needs and praises.

I hope all is well with you as we celebrate this Christmas season together!

Peace,
Sarah