Illness
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What Appendicitis Felt Like
Here’s some info immediately following my surgery, about how it all went down. You can watch it here. Baby still in hospital but hopefully coming home after doctor consult.
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Sharing With You…The Week of the Surprise Surgery
Here’s the video to the past week or so leading up to the surprise appendectomy. You can watch it here. All is going well. It’s been a pretty good week of recovery. I’m sandwiched between 1) trying to catch up at work (from year end and from having this issue) and 2) trying to get things done before we head out to Texas. It’s odd living in limbo. And then there is Mom hanging over there in “left wing” giving me long lists of everything she wants to do (I’m her taxi) as if she is afraid we are going to forget about her. She is trying to make me…
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Doctor’s Visit: Diagnosis and Strategy Plan
Doc appointment today at 3:50 in Mount Juliet. Diagnosis: Diverticulitis Infection Plan of Action: I really hope this works. So I’m to be back on liquids until pain is gone and then on to soft foods. And this is the “last chance” for this to get healed or we are on to serious business. So keep me in your prayers. The last thing I want is colon surgery and to die before retirement. I’ve known people that did not make it through these things. So this is how scared of it I am. I also don’t mean to be morbid. I’m just being honest. They took my blood count and my white count was at 1300. He said it was…