Family Emergency

Sorry to be out of touch lately. We've had a family emergency and I have been otherwise occupied. Back in October, my mom was having a bad time with her foot. It was infected and not getting any better. My husband and I decided we needed to act fast on Tuesday, because it had gotten a lot worse from just Sunday night and it was UGLY. She had angry red blotches and huge blisters that developed overnight.

We took her to the emergency room down in Duluth, about an hour's drive, Tuesday afternoon. The ER dr was taking cultures and was thinking flesh eating bacteria. He panicked. There was an orthopedic surgeon that wanted to amputate her foot if that infection didn't improve within three hours. Well, we made it through that night with high high high doses of intreveneous antibiotics, and since the infection didn't spread, there wasn't an immediate threat of amputation. She has poor circulation in her legs, which wasn't allowing the antibiotics to flow to the foot before. So she had a major surgery on Thursday, a bipass in her aeorta in her abdomen and a veinal (sp) bipass down her one leg. She came through it just fine, she is doing great.

She'll be in the hospital probably another week. But, right now she is great and no more threat of amputations for the moment. IF it should happen, it would only most likely be a toe, not the foot, too. So......PHEW. It's been a rough week.

It looks like she won't be able to come along to Vietnam to get her granddaughter, when the time comes, but if things hold the way they are, she WILL be able to chase after her grandbaby with much more vigor and energy than before!!! THAT'S the most important thing, anyway. But, IF the CFD/Referral Faeiries are reading this, I have a feeling she'd get a huge lift seeing a photo of her newest granddaughter for the first time! Hint Hint.........