Welcome to 2013 and goodbye to 2012. I have been told by well intended well wishers that 2013 will have to be a better year, because 2012 was so tough. Honestly though, I cannot look at things this way. The reason is simple. In 2012 I found increased faith, friendship, and closeness to family. Plus, […]

So glad to be home

Hopefully Mike is coming home tomorrow. The hospital needs to get him a portable wound vac. If they had it today he could be home now. He will have a lot of healing to do once home. But we will be so happy to have him home. 12 days in the hospital is a long […]

I’ve been waiting all day to write. I wanted to write something good. His breathing tube was just removed, YEAH! His first words, “I love you Nessa” NOT! He said to the doctor, “I’ve been farting, when can I eat?” He has not eaten since December 15th. Hopefully he will get to eat tomorrow. It’s […]

This morning we had high hopes that Mike would be taken off the breathing machine. They took him completely out of sedation and although he couldn’t talk, he had a lot to say. The hospital has a laminated page with letters and pictures and we came up with a methodology to get his words out […]

Mike is out of surgery and the surgeons sewed up his stomach fascia (good), but left his skin open to keep him clean and to drain fluids. Tonight he has a wet/dry bandage and tomorrow they will use the wound vac to slowly close his skin together until it heals. I think I got this […]

I don’t know nearly as much as I’d like to. Regular surgeon is away in Kentucky, our standby neurologist is also gone for the holidays. I think I know who the surgeon is, but he hasn’t come out to talk to me. Being in the hospital is never good, but when no one working in […]

Nothing exciting today. I guess that’s a good thing. Tomorrow afternoon the plan is to take Mike back to surgery, take out the wound vac packing, clean him up and hopefully sew him back up. That’s the best possible scenario. They may only be able to sew up the muscle layer but still the wound […]