Right on cue, after a busy first part of the day, here comes the pain!
Nerve pain. The worst. Left leg.
I don't think I've ever had nerve pain. If I did, I think I would know it.
Writhing. Panicky. Sweating. Unbearable.
Increased the nerontin. Kathy is worried about so many things. Chronic nerve pain... Addiction to pain meds... Money... Being a burden...
After two and a half hours, she's getting sleepy.
Gotta say, Sam sent a funny card that made Kathy laugh. Monkey crafted smiles ARE worth something! - very original. Just goes to prove what I've been saying, she has a way with everyone who meets her. I don't even think her ex's have bad thoughts about her!
Not sleepy enough to sleep through her leg talking so loudly.
Damn inconsiderate of that left leg if you ask me.
Halloween. Stuck in a hospital. No dressing up. No scaring the kids. No candy... wait, Mona sent Kathy a bag of candy! Where is it? Aha! Chocolate! Yes!!! This is Halloween! This is Halloween!
Too much pain to enjoy chocolate?!? I've never heard of such a thing!?! "Left Leg! You are acting like another body part! Stop the madness!!!"
This day of waiting has been nice. Knocking down the upcoming surgeries will be nicer. Tomorrow the left leg gets worked on some more. "Take THAT Left Leg!!!"
Monday, October 31, 2011
Benefit Concert: Recruiting volunteers
Hi! Jess here, bloggin in from Medford.
We are in the beginning stages of planning a fundraiser to help with Kathy's recovery costs . A benefit concert is tentatively scheduled for December 8th. Time is not on our side here, so friends...This is a recruit blog!! If you have any desire, interest, ability,time, motivation, etc... to extend toward these fundraising efforts, PLEASE get in touch with me (541-941-2156 lilijade.creations@gmail.com).
We have proof of how many lives Kathy has touched...It is mind blowing the love she has put out into the world! This is our opportunity to show our appreciation by putting our talent and resources in one pot and giving back to this sweet heart of a lady!
PLEASE step up if you are able, we will be meeting this Wen. 11/2 at 7:00 pm
Havana Republic
123 W. Main Street
Medford
Love, light and blessings to you all!
We are in the beginning stages of planning a fundraiser to help with Kathy's recovery costs . A benefit concert is tentatively scheduled for December 8th. Time is not on our side here, so friends...This is a recruit blog!! If you have any desire, interest, ability,time, motivation, etc... to extend toward these fundraising efforts, PLEASE get in touch with me (541-941-2156 lilijade.creations@gmail.com).
We have proof of how many lives Kathy has touched...It is mind blowing the love she has put out into the world! This is our opportunity to show our appreciation by putting our talent and resources in one pot and giving back to this sweet heart of a lady!
PLEASE step up if you are able, we will be meeting this Wen. 11/2 at 7:00 pm
Havana Republic
123 W. Main Street
Medford
Love, light and blessings to you all!
Don't look now!
I don't know half of Kathy's friends!
There seems to be so MANY, that I wonder if there is some kind of band wagon effect going on here!
I am struck by the contrast of what I imagine MY stay in a hospital would be like.
(Caution; based on this experience with Kathy, you should NOT be hospitalized until you have at least one fourth of the amount of her friends!)
This has been a day of waiting. I want to design a tattoo to help cover the scarring that she will have. Something pretty with vines that turn to flowers whose blooms become butterflies.
(If it was MY legs I think I would tattoo the scars as the SAME scars. That way you could still see them if the real scars faded over time! I'd be strutting PROOF of the horrific sh*t I survived!!!)
I have not acknowledged them in this blog yet, but My Boys, Parrish, Gage and Thane have been great through this. They are alone at home when I am up here. Kathy's Girls (friends not daughters) have helped my boys at the house (Thank you). Kathy has been touched by how the boys have checked on her, sent her cards and texts. (And she has yet to see her facebook page!) Destiny and Kennady have been dolls during visits! My oldest, Christopher, is in Afghanistan, but his wife, Julie, has kept in touch through this. My sister and her husband... Don't look now Baby, but I THINK YOU HAVE A FAMILY!
There seems to be so MANY, that I wonder if there is some kind of band wagon effect going on here!
I am struck by the contrast of what I imagine MY stay in a hospital would be like.
(Caution; based on this experience with Kathy, you should NOT be hospitalized until you have at least one fourth of the amount of her friends!)
This has been a day of waiting. I want to design a tattoo to help cover the scarring that she will have. Something pretty with vines that turn to flowers whose blooms become butterflies.
(If it was MY legs I think I would tattoo the scars as the SAME scars. That way you could still see them if the real scars faded over time! I'd be strutting PROOF of the horrific sh*t I survived!!!)
I have not acknowledged them in this blog yet, but My Boys, Parrish, Gage and Thane have been great through this. They are alone at home when I am up here. Kathy's Girls (friends not daughters) have helped my boys at the house (Thank you). Kathy has been touched by how the boys have checked on her, sent her cards and texts. (And she has yet to see her facebook page!) Destiny and Kennady have been dolls during visits! My oldest, Christopher, is in Afghanistan, but his wife, Julie, has kept in touch through this. My sister and her husband... Don't look now Baby, but I THINK YOU HAVE A FAMILY!
This is the real update
Kathy is shifting herself from bed to the porta toity! Also to a wheel chair with leg extentions! Though any miscalculation brings agony.
The lower left leg isn't responding as we wish and the pain response is inappropriate to the stimuli. A soft touch feels like burning acid. Small leg movements send sharp shooting nerve pain. It's better than no feeling at all, but when it isn't hurting it is just numb.
Still not able to move the toes on the left foot.
Surgery tomorrow. At this point it's just the left leg. She's getting a little bit of a fever. Worried about infection...
Kathy is obviously a rookie wheelchair operator.
She doesn't corner well.
At least these corners are being handled at a slower speed than the last one she didn't do well. Ouch! Did I really just write that?!? I hear "boo"s and hisses" from the gallery. Oh C'mon! I thought it! I wrote it!
I'm going to have her practice wheeling to the cafe, so I can get some lunch.
It's hard work watching her heal! Hurry and catch up Baby, I'm hungry!!!
The lower left leg isn't responding as we wish and the pain response is inappropriate to the stimuli. A soft touch feels like burning acid. Small leg movements send sharp shooting nerve pain. It's better than no feeling at all, but when it isn't hurting it is just numb.
Still not able to move the toes on the left foot.
Surgery tomorrow. At this point it's just the left leg. She's getting a little bit of a fever. Worried about infection...
Kathy is obviously a rookie wheelchair operator.
She doesn't corner well.
At least these corners are being handled at a slower speed than the last one she didn't do well. Ouch! Did I really just write that?!? I hear "boo"s and hisses" from the gallery. Oh C'mon! I thought it! I wrote it!
I'm going to have her practice wheeling to the cafe, so I can get some lunch.
It's hard work watching her heal! Hurry and catch up Baby, I'm hungry!!!
you want the truth?
Ted - (Bear with me here)
I use this blog as a way of shouting to the world about my crazy love for this girl!
I will write a real update soon, but for now I have something to say about Kathy.
Since she hasn't read any of these posts yet (she is waiting until things slow down and her head is clearer), it will be uplifting for her to look back on details she won't remember later.
Absence DOES make the heart grow fonder. Chalk it up to the great care the girls have been giving Kathy or the body's mind-boggling ability to heal, but even drugged up and in a hospital bed, this girl is Sexy Beautiful!!!
The way I figure it, there are really only two tragedies in life;
One is to not get your heart's desire, The other is to lose it.
I think about how close we came to losing Kathy.
It's easy to forget about how much blood she had lost.
When things were so critical right after the accident, it didn't matter to me if she lost her foot & leg,
I just didn't want to lose HER.
Now that I see such remarkably encouraging results, I get greedy for her,
unrealistically perhaps, wanting so much.
The room that Kathy is in, these posts and the mood of all who visit are reflections of her great personality. It's impossible to be less than optimistic around her! We do everything we can when the pain is really bad to get the girl we love back on track.
I don't mean to lessen what has happened, or make it appear that Kathy doesn't have a long hard road to a place she may not think is where she should be, but it could have been worse.
She might not have known how many people's lives she has touched.
Things left unsaid would remain that way forever.
Her injuries could have prevented any real enjoyment of life.
We could be planning a funeral instead of a different future.
Kathy was lucky.
We all got lucky.
I am the luckiest guy I know!
I have avoided both tragedies in life.
I use this blog as a way of shouting to the world about my crazy love for this girl!
I will write a real update soon, but for now I have something to say about Kathy.
Since she hasn't read any of these posts yet (she is waiting until things slow down and her head is clearer), it will be uplifting for her to look back on details she won't remember later.
Absence DOES make the heart grow fonder. Chalk it up to the great care the girls have been giving Kathy or the body's mind-boggling ability to heal, but even drugged up and in a hospital bed, this girl is Sexy Beautiful!!!
The way I figure it, there are really only two tragedies in life;
One is to not get your heart's desire, The other is to lose it.
I think about how close we came to losing Kathy.
It's easy to forget about how much blood she had lost.
When things were so critical right after the accident, it didn't matter to me if she lost her foot & leg,
I just didn't want to lose HER.
Now that I see such remarkably encouraging results, I get greedy for her,
unrealistically perhaps, wanting so much.
The room that Kathy is in, these posts and the mood of all who visit are reflections of her great personality. It's impossible to be less than optimistic around her! We do everything we can when the pain is really bad to get the girl we love back on track.
I don't mean to lessen what has happened, or make it appear that Kathy doesn't have a long hard road to a place she may not think is where she should be, but it could have been worse.
She might not have known how many people's lives she has touched.
Things left unsaid would remain that way forever.
Her injuries could have prevented any real enjoyment of life.
We could be planning a funeral instead of a different future.
Kathy was lucky.
We all got lucky.
I am the luckiest guy I know!
I have avoided both tragedies in life.
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