Gibbee messaged me the other day so I’m sort of copying what I told her here so I don’t have to type it all again.
I haven’t posted because it’s just so much to type and nothing much has changed and I hate to just keep complaining to everyone.
Everything is still about the same with my sister. It’s so unbelievable. Her doctors basically do nothing for her. She still has the infection, her incision is awful looking and is not healing and she’s in a ton of pain. She still is hardly doing anything.
She finally had an appointment at Cleveland Clinic on Wednesday. (It’s about 4 hours from her house). Her BF (Jim) took her down there. This was with a plastic surgeon/wound specialist. Jim said they did a lot of examining and testing and said that my sister still has an infection and the wound is a mess. They have to get my sister’s CT scan and MRI that she recently had at the hospital up here and get them down to them. When they get them, he will get with a team of doctors and come up with a plan to help her. He told her most likely more surgeries to clean out the infection. First step, clear the infection, then probably some type of plastic surgery for the wound area, then figure out healing process. She was happy they have suggestions and should be able to help but upset because it’s basically like starting over with all this again.
Joseph got his 3rd Infusion on Monday for the Ulcerative Colitis. We thought it was starting to work when he had the second one but now we don’t think so. It’s only a little bit improved. We have an appointment with his doctor this Wednesday.
As far as exercising. I’ve been trying start back to exercising this week. Cathe’s Add-Ons from her Basic Step dvd and KCM’s Pump from Cardio Pump are my “go to” weight workouts right now. They about kill me right now! I’m so out of shape and up about 10 lbs. over my WW goal. Ugh. I’m trying to be back to counting points again too.
At least we have gone up to the cabin a few times. My mom doesn’t like to drive on the freeway so I’ve been taking her up there. Sometimes with Darrell or with Joseph and sometimes both. I did get to go last weekend just me & my mom and it was so nice. (Except still seems weird without my dad). We even did get my sister up a few times but it’s hard on her I think.
Hope you are all doing well. I will try to post more regularly now that I’m trying to get back into exercising again but who knows.