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mythicalgirlI went with the ladybug icon today as it makes me smile.
I am very tired today. The antibiotics seem to be helping but after 5 days on them I would think I'd feel better than this.
I didn't sleep well last night. Worry and frustration kept me up for a while. As some of you may remember my brother-in-law (henceforth to be known as J- ) needs a hip replacement due to avascular necrosis in the joint. Basically blood flow got cut off and everything in the joint died. Mom called last night to tell me J-was in the hospital. He fell again despite now having a walker instead of crutches. Sissy got him back inside with the help of a neighbor and rented a wheelchair and all seemed well. The hip replacement still weeks away on 6/22 but they had things to do like blood work and classes.
Then he started talking to her like she was someone else. When she asked him about it he didn't remember the conversation even though it had just been a couple minutes ago. Freaked Sissy way out so she took him back to emergency where they started running all sorts of tests. He is malnourished because he hasn't been eating right or much at all what with the hip pain and all the drugs. He hasn't been sleeping well either. His potassium levels were whacked which was causing what we in this family call "the windies". A term my Grammy coined when she saw little kids swinging back and forth on the refrigerator door one time when her levels got low. They also found fluid around the heart and diagnosed congestive heart failure. And there is an infection in the hip joint where all the bone & tissue necrotized.
Basically he's a mess. The hip replacement is obviously postponed until everything else is under control. The eco-cardiogram came back good - his heart is strong. This morning they were thinking the fluid might be from his liver, which is not producing enough protein. This could be related to the malnourishment or the infection - or could be something else entirely. We're waiting for a liver specialist to see him to find out. But the heart is strong and that is the first good news in a couple of days. Now they need to get him stabilized with nutrients, etc. Get him to eat! And there will likely be surgery to clean the infection out of the joint although I don't know when yet.
The worry is because, well, it's my Sissy and J-. I'm worried for his health and I'm worried for my Sissy having to go through all this. I'm frustrated because I can't do anything except send positive thoughts. I'm there with them in spirit but not in the flesh as I'm in Indiana and they are in North Carolina. Not that I could do anything if I were there - that is up to the doctors, and Sissy & J- have lots of friends there plus his family should be there by now as they were driving down from Indy - but I still feel like I should be doing something and there is really nothing I can do, hence the frustration.
As for now, I'm going to home, get the latest update and try to relax for a while. Send positive thoughts (or prayers if you lean that way) to my Sissy and her hubby down North Carolina way, would you?
I am very tired today. The antibiotics seem to be helping but after 5 days on them I would think I'd feel better than this.
I didn't sleep well last night. Worry and frustration kept me up for a while. As some of you may remember my brother-in-law (henceforth to be known as J- ) needs a hip replacement due to avascular necrosis in the joint. Basically blood flow got cut off and everything in the joint died. Mom called last night to tell me J-was in the hospital. He fell again despite now having a walker instead of crutches. Sissy got him back inside with the help of a neighbor and rented a wheelchair and all seemed well. The hip replacement still weeks away on 6/22 but they had things to do like blood work and classes.
Then he started talking to her like she was someone else. When she asked him about it he didn't remember the conversation even though it had just been a couple minutes ago. Freaked Sissy way out so she took him back to emergency where they started running all sorts of tests. He is malnourished because he hasn't been eating right or much at all what with the hip pain and all the drugs. He hasn't been sleeping well either. His potassium levels were whacked which was causing what we in this family call "the windies". A term my Grammy coined when she saw little kids swinging back and forth on the refrigerator door one time when her levels got low. They also found fluid around the heart and diagnosed congestive heart failure. And there is an infection in the hip joint where all the bone & tissue necrotized.
Basically he's a mess. The hip replacement is obviously postponed until everything else is under control. The eco-cardiogram came back good - his heart is strong. This morning they were thinking the fluid might be from his liver, which is not producing enough protein. This could be related to the malnourishment or the infection - or could be something else entirely. We're waiting for a liver specialist to see him to find out. But the heart is strong and that is the first good news in a couple of days. Now they need to get him stabilized with nutrients, etc. Get him to eat! And there will likely be surgery to clean the infection out of the joint although I don't know when yet.
The worry is because, well, it's my Sissy and J-. I'm worried for his health and I'm worried for my Sissy having to go through all this. I'm frustrated because I can't do anything except send positive thoughts. I'm there with them in spirit but not in the flesh as I'm in Indiana and they are in North Carolina. Not that I could do anything if I were there - that is up to the doctors, and Sissy & J- have lots of friends there plus his family should be there by now as they were driving down from Indy - but I still feel like I should be doing something and there is really nothing I can do, hence the frustration.
As for now, I'm going to home, get the latest update and try to relax for a while. Send positive thoughts (or prayers if you lean that way) to my Sissy and her hubby down North Carolina way, would you?
