A quick update, I actually wanted to write a much longer update but it will have to wait ( Read more... )

Well, where I was, the acute facility at Riverview wouldn't let me post to LJ and I got cut off of the free WiFi access I wqqs enjoying, so I was offline for over a month or more. I am now in a subacute facility which is basically rehab at a wing of a nursing home. Very Depressing. The social worker here is letting me use her office and my ( Read more... )

Even now, over a month after the surgery, I look down where my leg should be and I get sick to my stomach. The phantom pain is still there but it is getting better as time goes on ( Read more... )

After coming home from the Hospital , I spiked a fever during Dialysis and they had me sent back to the ER. Well, about a week later, they wound up amputating my leg (BTK) Below The Knee. The infection had spread to the bones, and was also causing my anemia. I am now undergoing physical therapy at Riverview Medical Center and hopefully will be ( Read more... )

I just got sprung from the hospital where I was the past month, I am home now but have to go back to a different hospital for daily outpatient Hyperbaric treatment. I am in a world of hurt right now.

Sialysis, thankfully, went without a hitch this past week. No more panic attacks, though my sleeping at home has been erratic at best. And Medicare won't cover *any* of my sleeping pill rx's. sigh. So long as I manage some sleep the night before dialysis I seem to be ok. I want to thank everyone who lent words of support and encouragement. You ( Read more... )

at Dialysis and they had to take me off 2 hours early. (Actually I insisted) It was very embarrasing and now I have to be very careful between now and Friday. In good news, I slept for the first time since leaving the Hospital (Literally hadn't been able to sleep. Maybe the two are related?

I just got back from another 8 days in the Hospital where they cut out the infection in my foot as well as my pinky toe.

on Tuesday. He said that the foot is looking worse that when I was in the Hospital and that if it doesn't improrve with the IV antibiotics I am taking M-F, I may be re-hospitalized and may lose more of my foot. I'm not in a very good place right now ( Read more... )

Well, having never seen an episode of American Idol in my life, I "discovered" Clay Aiken yesterday while waiting in the Dialysis waiting room. The channel on the TV was set to ABC and "The View" was on. He performed the song "without you" which I had never heard before. After I got home I downloaded the song (thanks itunes music store) and have ( Read more... )