Not Even Gonna Try to Get Caught Up . . .

. . . Sorry.

There’s no way for me to completely catch up on the past month. To say I have been busy would be an understatement. Part of the problem is the lack of any routine. My work load has been spotty for the last month. This is in some respects a good thing since there has been a lot of other things to keep me going.

Without going into too much detail here is what has been going on.

Regarding the Pain in Lori’s back/leg. /the 1st shot ended up giving Lori some relief. The pain never really went away but it did get much better. 2 weeks after the 1st shot we went for the 2nd shot. You could see by the x-ray the difference from the 1st time. The inflammation was way down. The 2nd shot went without any complications. Since then the pain is almost completely gone. I believe Lori has had some re-occurrence, but nothing even close to the way it was 6 weeks ago. We go for our follow up visit Wednesday with Dr. Brown. Hopefully this can be a chapter we can close, even if it’s only temporary.

Lori’s Mom has been home for a couple of weeks. She ended up being in the hospital and rehab facility for 38 days. Once she was home again there were a lot of things Lori wanted us to do to get her set up at home. It took quite a bit of energy out of Lori to get her mom settled in. There are still thing Lori wanted to do that we haven’t been able to get over there to do.

There are still some issues that we don’t know how they will turn out regarding Lori’s mom. She had a bone marrow biopsy last week. She is suspected of having Multiple Myeloma. Then of course there is the Aneurysm – stable for the moment. Lori is also concerned about her Dad. He has his own issues he deals with as well as taking care of Lori’s mom.

The bottom line is Lori has been suffering for the past 2 weeks from all of the activities of the previous 6 weeks. There have been a couple of “breakdowns” including a pretty severe one last week. It is really hard for her. She wants to do so much, but her body won’t even let her do even the simple things most of the time. She struggles with this most if the time but is really tormented by not being able to do things for her mom and dad.

The past 3 days Lori has been really ill. She has been getting real dizzy when she stands up. Yesterday she was nauseas all day. She is also running a low grade fever. If she doesn’t snap out of it in the next day or so I guess we’d better call Dr. Peditto.

So that’s the condensed version of the last month. Like Lori said the other day, “It’s always something. As soon as the pain in her back goes away something else takes its place”