It's been a while

It has been several weeks since my last post so let's play catch-up for a sec before I talk about me.

First of all my wife has been fighting a MRSA infection in her left foot for months now. She initially underwent surgery to remove the last joint of her big toe and then came home for 6 weeks of IV antibiotics via a pick line. (to make it easier to care for her she stayed with her mom so that others could help her as needed.) Roughly 3 weeks later the infection came back and they discovered that it was on one of the larger bones that runs from her ancke to the toes along the top of the foot.

They started the whole routine again (including another 6 weeks of antibiotics at home) and she completed that course of treatment about 3 weeks ago. She was suddenly hit with inflamation, sewlling, and intense pain in her other ;eg yesterday (Thursday) morning and taken to the ER. They verified that she had no blood clot in her leg and began treatment for an assumed return of the same infection. The infectious disease doc has been out of town but will be checking her out later this morning.

Meanwhile, within a few short days of Cheryl being released to come home from the hospital the first time around, her dad had a major stroke. After bouncing back and forth from the rehab facility to the hospital he came down with septic shock and we almost lost him. He is currently at home being treated by hospice.

To make things even more hectic the family has lost 3 friends or family members in the last few weeks. All these things that have been going on has helped me put my problems into perspective and realize that things could be a lot worse.

So.. just how am I doing? When it became apparent that Cheryl would require a second round of antibiotics I made the move from my house to my inlaw's house to make things easier on those that were helping her out as well as assisting me wiht meals and such. While that sounded like a good idea on paper, the end result is that I am spending my waking hours in a recliner rather than all my time in bed and the level of pain in my back as well as th esciatic pain in both legs have really ratcheted up a few notches. I am back to taking 3-4 loratab as well as a couple of Percocet on a regular basis (those are daily dosges) and quite often am still in too much pain to sleet. For example it is currently 6:30 AM and I have only been able to sleep for 3 hours (heavily medicated ones) since early yesterday morning.

Compared to my father-in-law or the family members that have been lost in the past few weeks I guess I can honestly say that, as much pain as I am in, at least I am still here and things could be a lot worse.