Marc's Stuff

Sorry about not updating since Friday. Got busy and time got away from me. That and I'm hardly on a computer over the weekend...once again my Apologies

Christy is feeling better and eating better. IMHO) I think she is feeling better now, then what she did when she left the first time. My personally feeling is that they the doctors are latching on the cause of a majority of the illness, and are treating it correctly. So far, her temperatures hasn't spiked, she is eating more, and she is less nauseated My feeling is that this isn't going to be a quick fix, and that she is going to have to go home with antibiotics by an IV for a few weeks.
When she does eat, I believe that she is getting legitimately hungry this time, and not force herself to eat like she did last time. They also moved her into a new room in the hospital that is in the newer section. The room is a little brighter and more conferable for everyone involved, that has helped her spirits a little bit.

as a side note: Because of the issue in question, Christy is considered infectious by the hospital. As a result, we are limited to the number of people that can come in and out of the room,(right now, just me and Christy's Grandma) and when we do enter the room we have to put on these fashionable bright yellow gowns. As a result it was decided that it's best that Christy has no visitors for the time being. We all ask that you please be patient to let Christy get healthy again. When she is no longer considered infectious, then she will be more then happy to see visitors again. Like always I'll post any updates to this website.

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Since last the procedure last Wednesday, Christy is feeling allot better. Her temp seem to have stabilized again, and she eating better then she has in a while. She is still sleeping allot, but we think that's more of a result of the drugs that they have her on, then anything else.

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As of yesterday, Christy is back in the hospital with a temperature, the chills and not keeping food down. This evening one of her doctors came in, discovered a possible caused, and preformed a procedure that seems to have helped out, but time will tell. The good news is, that this isn’t life threatening, and should be easily curable. I’ll post any updates on my blog, like I have done before. Because of the personal nature of the issue, Christy has requested not to have any visitors at the moment. I’ll let you know when it’s ok to visit.

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I've been waiting a long time to make this announcement..

CHRISTY IS HOME!!!!!

She just got home, long enuff to say hi to the pets, and laid down in the water bed. Needless to say she is still pretty tired, and planning on resting tonight. She still have a bunch of Doctors appointments to go to, and I have to pick up a bunch of prescriptions tonight on the way home, but that is just minor now. I'm sure there will still be updates from time to time, but not daily. :)

Thank you for all those of you who called, and sent flowers, cards, small children, books, etc. Everything when a long way to cheer her up while she was in the hospital.

Thank you Christy's mom, sister Shane, future brother-n-law Leiff (Did I get that right?), niece Madison, My mom, My dad and step mother(Amy), all for visiting and providing something other then hospital food for us to eat. To Tina for taking care of our dogs, sometimes at hardly any notice when we needed it. To Lisa and John and family for coming out when Christy was having a bad time. For my boss ,Gus at the Cable Company, who let me off at a moments notice so I can be with Christy when she had her surgeries, or needed me to be there otherwise. To all the nurses and doctors and staff at Toledo Hospital that went out of their way to help all of us. and a final thanks to those of you who read this blog, and let me know they appreciated the updates

(Damn I feel like I'm writing an Oscar speech.)

Like I said, I'll still update from time to time, but I can't be sure how much or how often.

Thank you From
Marc, Christy and Grandma.

We now return you back to your regular blog programing.

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Christy had a minor Surgery today... She didn't even get put under all the way. They just stiched up a Major portion of the area that was opened a couple weeks ago. Right now she is resting after having that first post surgery meal :). As of right now everyone is still planning on her to go home on Friday,without the wound vac. She is looking forward to it. as are the rest of us...

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Yesterday was a fairly calm day. Christy didn't get up yesterday, but did have a couple of visitors. She is feeling fine, she just felt that she was pushing it with all the time she was up over the weekend. I believe she is planning on getting up today. She is still having a little bit of a nausea issue, but we think that is partly from not eating Breakfast before taking allot of pills. Tomorrow they are going to take her to surgery to put in some stitches, and close most of the surgery area up. The Doc said he could've done it in the room, but the lighting is allot better in the OR. As of right now they are just planning on doing a local, so she will not be all the way out. The wound is still going be open, and they are going to try the wound vac when she goes home. As of right now everything is still on track for going home on Friday.

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Sorry about not updating over the weekend. On the weekend, I tend not to be at a computer much. The one time I was on a computer, I didn't think to update the blog.

The Weekend went well for Christy. She was up Friday, Saturday and Sunday for a while. On Saturday and Sunday she did go outside for a while and enjoy the nice weather we had. Christy's Grandma went back home for the weekend, so it was basically the 2 of us at the Hospital. She still is homesick, and she can't wait to get home. The Medicines that she has been taken have been reducing by a little bit. As of right now we are still on Target for going home on Friday. The main doctor looked at the surgery site, and wound and said everything looked really good. This week sometime he is planning on stitching or stapling most of the area. She is still going to have the original wound, but MUCH cleaner, and I believe smaller. Christy is also planning on going home on some kind of antibiotic, but that hasn't been decided on which one yet. Other then being a little homesick, her spirits are up. She is moving around a bit, appetite and her is returning back to normal.

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Yesterday went well. Christy got up for a little bit and did some more exploring around the hospital. She does have a little nausea when she first gets up, but that tends to go away after a while. Yesterday they did give her a pill, but the first day I don't think they gave her anything after they got her up. She is eating well as she ate a chicken pot pie from Bob Evan's that my Dad and Stepmother brought in. Sleeping has gotten better at night. The Nurses are trying to work be medicines in such a way that they don't need to wake her over night when she sleep, and that is helping also. She is trying to keep herself busy with books, Coloring, word searches that everyone has brought her, and of course, watching her day time court shows. Suggestion for Toledo Hospital: Please put "Food Network" on your in room TV's. I know you get your signal from Buckeye Cable and they carry it!.

Now from the "Now I feel old department" One of the Nurses that is taking care of Christy is someone who I used to work with at McDonald's when I was in High School. Which is good, I know this nurse is a good person, and will take real good care of Christy. When we both worked for MCd's she had a baby, and I remember seeing her with the baby a couple times. Well, that "baby" is now 17 years old!!!

Posted by Marc at 09:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yesterday went great. Christy was able to get up, and explore the hospital a little bit. She went outside a couple times, and ended up going over to the new section of the hospital, and had some lunch at a little "sidewalk" cafe that they had inside of the new lobby. Her spirits changed 180% from Tuesday. She is upbeat and fairly positive now. We also have a tentative going home date of April 11th. She is counting down the days until then!. Since we now have a date that we can focus on, it's does make things easer. She is also allowed to get up for a couple hours daily which will also helped allot. The area in question is looking real good, and the nurse that is helping us with the wound vac said she is amazed how quickly and how far is has come in a couple weeks. Right now Christy's goal is to be able to make the Darlington NASCAR race the 2nd week of May, and she is willing to do anything to make that happen. If things are still going well, sometime this weekend, when she is up and able to go outside I'm going to bring one of our dogs, Bettis by. I brought Charlet the other day up to the room, but Bettis still has a lot of puppy in him, and is less predictable then Charlet. I'll bring him by if Christy gets to go outside for a little bit and we don't have to worry about Bettis wrecking the room :)

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Christy is still having a small problem with the wound vac keeping a seal, but so they are having to work on it. The wound vac person is going to be in today to change the vac again, so hopefully they will try again to get a better seal.Christy is having a hard time mentally staying in the room. She really wants to go home badly, and gets herself a little frustrated over not being able to get home. Yesterday my mom brought in a plant that gives some color to an otherwise plan white room. Little touches like that do help making the stay bearable for Christy. Last week I hung some pictures of our pets, and 1 of Madison. Also, when our friends Lisa and John where in town last weekend their kids drew a couple of pictures and I hung those up as well. We also found out that if our dog is behaved, we can bring on 1 dog for a while to visit. Yesterday, when I got off work, I went home, and got our Lab/Sheppard Mix Charlet and brought her in for a couple house. I think bringing the dog went a long way to help both Christy and Charlet. Christy was very happy to see Charlet, and one of the first things the dog did when she got in the room was jump in the bed with Christy. We are talking about bringing the other dog (Bettis) this weekend, but we both aren't to sure, since he tends to be a little less..umm..calm then Charlet.

Posted by Marc at 09:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Christy was feeling pretty good yesterday, and today. They took the IV stuff away from her, and now giving all her medicines orally. The downside is that the Medicine isn't as strong, and that she is starting to come out of the "fog" that you are in when you are on the "real good" stuff, so she is getting a little more emotional about wanted to go home now. When I talked to her on the phone this afternoon, she said that they brought in a "therapy dog" in for a while, and that did help her. Now I'm trying to figure out a way I can get our dogs tagged as "Therapy dogs" :) We got the "Good chair" fixed and I brought it in last night, but it appears that it will be a day or 2 before they put in her in the the chair. Also, the issue with the wound vac as been taken care of, and the whole area has been sealed correctly now.

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