Well after three months I am finally updating the website.
For those of you that know this information please disregard this update.
After I finished radiation, I went in to have the expanders put back to start the reconstruction surgery on Friday, May 11th. On May 14th (which happens to be my sister Cheri's birthday) when Dan went to wake me up for work that morning I did not wake up. Dan called 911. I could not hear what Dan was saying and I thought I was looking through a fog. I got to ride in an ambulance (but I do not remember anything). My blood pressure was 50 over zero when I got to the Emergency room and a 20 percent chance of survival. My kidneys where shutting down. I spent three days in the I.C.U. and one on the regular hospital floor.
The diagnosis was septic shock, and pneumonia. (definition: a life-threatening form of sepsis that usually results from the presence of gram-negative bacteria and their toxins in the bloodstream and that is characterized especially by decreased blood flow to organs and tissues, hypotension, organ dysfunction (as of the heart, kidneys, or lungs), impaired mental state, and often multiple organ failure)
I got to have a dialysis treatment, several I.V.'s. I came home very weak.
On June 19th the expanders had to be removed again because infection. The surgery is not healing very quickly. Since this was the second time they become infected I have decided not to have reconstructive surgery.
The doctor will not let me go back to work for between two and six months. My body is not recovering very fast. So I am hanging out at home and have a really good case of cabin fever. Dan does let me go out once in a while. :o)
Anyway, now you are up-to-date. I see the doctor on the 20th of August and hope that I will be able to go back to work part-time.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
I finished radiation yesterday! It takes a week before the effects stop. So that means that next Monday my body will start to heal. What needs to heal you ask? Well I have one large open sore from the burn of radiation and several small sores and a couple large burned areas. So I am looking forward to them starting to heal.
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