Category: Me

How could I have gone more than two weeks without saying anything??? Kids are all excited about Christmas and are hyper and often "naughty."  Don't know exactly how to handle that. Michael's getting all excited and ready for his school program.  Every morning when I drop him off to school I try to leave him with something positive, but was in such a rush yesterday I forgot until he was walking away, I rolled down the window in the freezing cold and yelled "I love you Michael!"  He didn't so much as hesitate, he just kept on walking...  I think I embarrassed him, I'm not ready for my kids to be embarrassed by me!  I guess it was going to happen sooner or later...  He's been going to Kevin's Mom's…

It's been a good day.  I'm tired and done now though. Basic updates, nothing's going on on the house front.  The day I took Kevin to the ER I spent the day with my Realtor looking at houses, we found 5 houses we'd have liked to put offers on, I went back to her office and filled out the paperwork to put offers on them and took them home for Kevin to sign, and then to take then back to her the next morning for her to submit.  That never happened.  So we would have had 9 offers out, but those 5 fell through.  We had had 4 out, but they all are sold, refinanced by the seller (would have been a short sale), or are in contract with other…

Kevin came home a couple days ago and we're enjoying being all together again.  He's getting stronger and stronger by the day, and his pain is getting more manageable.  He's also able to stay awake longer and sleep better.  He's got a pretty wicked belly scar.  The boys are so glad to have their Daddy back and doing their best not to maul him.  They're actually usually pretty gentle with him.

Kevin was released from the Hospital Wednesday, sorry for the late update, I've been extremely busy and the computer hasn't been available. We're staying at his parents house because Aiden has the flu and has been running an extremely high fever.  It's hard not to be able to take care of one of my babies.  Thanks to Grandma Karen for saving the day! Kevin briefly saw Michael, but otherwise hasn't been able to be with his kids yet in three weeks now.  Kevin's doing well and is enjoying the freedom of being out of the hospital.  He's getting a little more energy every day. He'd appreciate healthy company, so give us a call and drop on by if you'd like!

So Saturday they did a scan on Kevin's abdomen to see what's going on with him and if they could release him soon.  They found an abscess.  They decided to give it a couple of days to mature and then put in a catheter to drain it, and keep him on the heavy antibiotics.  Yesterday they took him down to CT Scan to do the procedure.  It was gone.   There was a little fluid, but no real infection.  They even took him to get an ultrasound, and still no abscess. They're working to get him ready to go and if all goes well we'll have him home by Friday!

That was his goal on the board in his room Thursday night. Kevin has 2-3 superficial (meaning none life threatening) blood clots in his arm where they had put the blood pressure cuff one day, and his heart rate is still a little higher than they like it to stay long term, but he's getting stronger by the day, and Friday about noon he made his escape, and is now on the regular medical hospital floor. He's in room 400 for anyone who wants to visit him, but I warn you he's pretty tired, so don't wear him out too much.  He'd love visitors.  Just remember, if you have any cold or flu symptoms they need to be gone without medicines to stop them for 48 hours before visiting, and…

My hubby is amazing!  He's weaned off the oxygen, went on two walks today, and made several other strides that help him feel like a normal healthy human being again.  Maybe just a few more days in the ICU, then hopefully just a few more on regular hospital care.

Surgery #4 went well.  They were able to close up his abdomen, and things are looking good there.  They were able to wean him of the sedation and let him wake up giving him power to breath on his own.  It took about an hour of me helping him slowly wake up, we didn't want him to wake up too fast or else he could have gone into shock again.  He's now able to have ice chips, and is enjoying that.  He's doing a lot better emotionally, lastnight was a pretty scary night for me.  He's alert, but can't speak very well yet, but he's patient and resting. I can't beleive it's been a week. The scariest, fastest, and slowest week of my life, all rolled into one.  There's a…

Kevin had surgery #3 tonight, it went well, it was just to check on things and to irrigate the cloudy stuff that had gathered.  We hoped they could go ahead and sew his belly together, but he's still too swollen, so PLEASE pray that his swelling will continue to decrease, and they can seal him up with his next surgery.  The gap gets smaller with each time, so here's hoping... He's doing nicely, as well as can be expected for all he's been through. I was going to stay the night with him, but realized it wouldn't make much difference to him, but it would make a difference for me to sleep at home and be with our kids in the morning.  Plus I know he's in excellent hands, I…

Thank you everyone for your responses and well thoughts, they're appreciated SO much. Kevin came out of surgery this afternoon about 4:40 (went in about 2:30), they've been able to reattach his bowels, and then they left him open with a wound vac because he's still really swollen and because they want to go back to check out that the bowel is attached well and healing.  He's very heavily sedated, but is still trying to wake up and remove his ventilator again. I'll try to answer questions as I can, but I'm kinda swamped, and overwhelmed.  Feel free to ask again, or email me.