Another Update

You may or may not recall that last time Nate had surgery (January '09)he came home, got violently and painfully ill, and had to go back to the hospital and have another surgery to get his ileostomy put in. The doctor couldn't close up the incision because there was infection like crazy (think intestines coming apart and all that food going wherever it could find a place), so Nate was still wide open to the tune of lots of nurses coming to watch every time they changed his dressing because it was pretty uncommon (and pretty horrifying). Then for at least a month after coming home (details are fuzzy here) Nate had a woundvac, which was basically a sponge hooked to a vacuum that slurped the wound closed so it could heal. He had it with him 24/7 and we had homecare nurses coming several times a week to change it. It finally closed up (after shingles and several fights with staph infection) and he had an ileostomy (aka: saved his life, but also a major pain in the bum) until last Wednesday.

That said, yesterday Nate started showing early symptoms of being on that very same road. Fever, pain, nausea, bloating. And I, for one, was terrified and an emotional basket case for most of the day (my eyes made me look like the devil from about 5:00 on). But after a lot of praying and blessings for both of us, I got a call from Nate at 3:00 this morning saying that he was feeling better! The word "relief" is not strong enough to describe our feelings. I'm sure we're not completely out of the woods, but I think things are looking really positive right now.