Nan, just know that your peeps on this list understand completely and offer our prayers and support in every way possible. Hang in there. I know it seems more than one person can possibly bear, but you have already proven your strength and determination. Now it is a matter of will power. In the words of Dylan Thomas: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light!"
Larry Willis Retired and proud of it Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: [email protected] > From: Nan <[email protected]> > Date: July 14, 2015 at 8:10:29 PM EDT > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Old Quad/Osteomyelitis > Reply-To: Nan <[email protected]> > > Thank you Shirley, Nicki and W. It really helps to know that others > understand what I'm going through. My family just doesn't get it. > > > > > On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 7:08 PM, shirley bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Oh Nan, I don't know what to say. Sounds beyond difficult. Please know I am > pulling for you with prayer. It is SO hard, shirley > Best, > Shirley Bell > > www.ShirleyBellDesigns.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nan > To: Quad-list Post > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 5:20 PM > Subject: [QUAD-L] Old Quad/Osteomyelitis > > Yup ... getting old is no fun. > > As I wrote earlier this summer, "...another year down. The last 6 months > have been fraught with medical problems ... 3+ weeks in ICU in December. > Spiraled downhill after putting my dog down. Didn't eat or drink - ended up > septic ... vent, pic line, feeding tube, pull the plug discussions - the > whole 9 yards. Don't remember much which I am very thankful for. Another > week in the hospital in March - my potassium skyrocketed and they called me > at 10PM to tell me to go to ED. Got that under control. Nurse smashed my > knee while in during March, nice sore there now. My legs got so thin from > being in bed, so now I have 3 sores on my left leg, one is down to the bone. > The Wound Care Clinic is beginning to feel like home! Feeling much better > now. Hopefully things will start to look up now.". > > Things are not looking better... I now have Osteomyelitis - my left leg > where the sores are. All are deep and look horrendous. I've done everything > the Wound Care Clinic has told me to do, but they just keep getting worse. > Tomorrow I get a PICC line and antibiotics ... the waiting and anticipation > is horrible. I'm scared because PICC lines never go easy for me. I just > want to run away. > > I'm tired of fighting, of being hurt, of being patient. My optimism is > nearly a thing of the past. I feel like I am hanging on by a thread... > > So far, getting to be an old quad sucks ... > > >
