Adam got all of his stitches removed yesterday. Yes, there was a moment where we contemplatd using the smelling salts on me, but I survived. The strip don the middle front had two pieces of thick “lanyard” (remember those plastic strings that we used to weave together to make keychains at Bennett?) type material and [...]

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Friday was the day from hell! The wheelchair company sent a shoddy product that wouldn’t support Adams leg, so mama bear came out and growled and slashed a few faces [...]

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Tomorrow Adam will be sent home. We were originally thinking today, but a not so good morning session with the Physical therapist kept him here an additional night. So come hell or high water, tomorrow it is.
When we started this whole shindig more than a year ago, we knew this would be the [...]

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We have movement.
After a on and off night of sleep no sleep. This morning brought nothing different. Another scoop of eggs was turned away and stomach cramps and uncomfortableness abounded.Dr. Osterkamp came early and we discussed the many facets of what is happening with Adam right now. He has requested an internist to come and [...]

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9am: He slept through the 1am chance for Morphine and ended up not waking until almost 4am. After receiving a dose, he promptly returned to sleep until 5:30 ish when the vampires came poking around looking to draw some blood. Breakfast came and other than the ice cream scoop (I kid you not) of eggs [...]

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Even a little progress is still progress.
While Adam is still in a dire amount of pain, he is progressing well, according to the daytime nursing staff. Our nurse du jour was Panzie, yes that is pronounced as it is spelled P a n z I e, (word insists on capitalizing the [...]

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It was a rough night. The plan was Taj would stay and I would go home, but when I figured out that Ethel, Fred and Lucy were the on duty nurses, I realized I couldn’t leave. And good thing too. Adam spent most of the night in pain or asleep. He [...]

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The surgery lasted about 7.5 hours. The bleeding was a result of a nick made in an artery when cutting the bone. The nick was so minute they called in a vascular surgeon who happened to be in the area and he came in and assisted. The nick was also behind the [...]

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Since I have been home for almost a month now, I have put back on half of what I lost, of course I stopped going to the gym and am eating at every available moment, so that may have something to do with it.
Back to the drawing board.
By now you have all seen how gorgeous [...]

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