October Thoughts
This week, let' talk about October. Toni sure enjoyed facts about the months and questions on that topic too.
1. What are your feelings about the month of October? Does it bring anything special to mind for you? Do you have memories to share?This October has been different from all others in my life. Beginning October 8, I developed a wicked bacterial infection which was wrongly diagnosed as a UTI. I was insanely ill and I don't think I ate more than 2000 calories the whole of that week. I was on a very strong antibiotic which I could keep down, but no food whatever. After a week, I returned to the lab to check the urine which was fine, but the technician noticed I was jaundiced. Neither Lynn nor I had picked up on it! I just looked ill! Thus began phase two of my October.
2. We were encouraged to rush to the Er which to our sorrow was like a war zone. There were hundreds of people everywhere -some in beds lined up against the hallway walls others dragging their IV poles after them sitting or lying in the waiting room. We arrived at about 2:30.We were not triaged until after midnight. I could barely hold my head up. All this disarray was due to the ravages of covid and the terrible depletion of nurses, doctors and other staff who have left their positions. We were shocked to see this and hear the plight of so many dedicated servants! We were so grateful to be taken to a triage room where we spent that night.I was poked and prodded and taken for a cat scan and ultrasound. Soon after teams of doctors were piling in- one set of oncologists and another team of regular hospital surgeons. There was some debate about what the results of my tests were showing, but I will tell you I wasn't about to accept what the oncologists were saying after two tests. By morning I was ensconced in a room upstairs and there in began 4 days of some delirium, more prodding and poking and wondering if I would ever be given a bite of food again.
3. I must say I was glad to be where I was and the care I received was wonderful. The debate continued until on Wednesday I had an endoscopy which showed much light on the topic. I had a very diseased gall bladder due to a 3cm stone blocking the duct to my liver and another duct Im not sure where. Stents were administered and antibiotics were pushed through the iv continuously for the next 3 days.There were MRI s, exrays, more blood tests than anyone should ever endure. My arms were pincushions and all bruised.The oncology team backed out. praise God and a surgeon came on the spot to tell me I had to heal my gall bladder before surgery so Im looking down the road at that sometime before Christmas. Another event that changed my life was I was awakened on Thursday with a nurse running around because my blood sugar had crashed to 40.I actually volunteered the nurse's name who came to the rescue at 5am and brought me tasty food and drink to bring my sugar back up to 116 in 15 minutes for a commendation for services rendered above and beyond! After the determined amount of antibiotics had been administered I was released Friday night to come home and continue strong antibiotics here e and try to recover from my ordeal. This week the phone has rung off the hook with more appointments and procedures to prepare for my next endoscopy which will definitively rule out cancer and destroy that stone.There is more to the tale but you probably had had enough! I know I have! But here is my praise . My dear team of physicians listened to me cry that my holiday plans for November were coming up and please can I see them through.. This is the year we see the kids for Thanksgiving and do Christmas at the same time. The other branch of the family celebrated at Christmas time. Praise God the surgeon said it would be best to wait until after Thanksgiving to do the surgery.. then all should be healed and I would be stronger! Glory to God!!!
4.Autumn is not the same as Fall. Fall is the time when the leaves are actively falling. What activities of Autumn/Fall do you enjoy? Do you decorate your door or home for the season? Well, I am so far off base with Autumn.. but here it goes. Lynn and I did all our gift shopping online and paid for all on Saturday from my bed. For if we are doing Christmas here during the week of Thanksgiving I needed to get Johnny on the spot. Today I have been copying and pasting recipes from my favorite sights online .. recipes that are festive and easy. Entertaining with Beth is my recipe guru.. Check out her vlog!!!!YAYAYA! I have shared my home as it it is decorated for Thanksgiving, but since I will only get a week of the kids coming to us instead of 2 weeks as we had planned before when we were going to them , We will cook for Thanksgiving, but decorate for Christmas. I'm not really up for doing much as of yet.. Hopefully after Nov 3 , following the endoscopy I will be feeling much stronger.. But I will be planning my decor and gradually getting things started, but I think the girls would love to help do the major decorating and we'd make new memories at Gaa Gaa's house!
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