The last year has been a bad year and I am about ready to just give up.
It started with the surgery to install a spinal cord stimulator. A month later, I get a staff infection on my spine at the site of the incision. This created another surgery to remove the device and clean out the infection. This then lays me up for two months with a PIC line and antibiotics by IV twice a day and a nurse coming daily to pack the open incision until it closes. Meanwhile I'm not aloud to do anything. This took three months of my life I can't get back. Then two months later, I get violently sick and spend a whole month in bed until they finally figured out I had contracted C-diff infection, most likely from the massive doses of Vancomycin to kill the staff infection weakening my ability to fight it.. So I have to take another antibiotic to kill that infection. Next for two months I am too exhausted to function. They attribute this to the C-DIFF infection and I am given large doses of vitamins by injection every day for two weeks to counteract the exhaustion.
After this I am finally feeling half decent and can get back to living and trying to get into my shop.
Then my favorite dog dies from congestive heart failure about a week ago.
Well ...... the doctor called today. They do a yearly CT scan to check my ascending aortic aneurysm which they did last Friday. It seems my aneurysm has grown. It was stable for the last 9 years but is now getting worse. I have to go talk to the vascular surgeon about options and when and if intervention is required. The surgery to replace the aortic arch that comes from the heart is risky and dangerous at best. The mortality rate is poor.
Seems I can't catch a break this year. The only thing that keeps me going is, I can look around and there is always someone worse off than me. I will keep plugging away and hope to beat this too. God's will will be done either way.
It started with the surgery to install a spinal cord stimulator. A month later, I get a staff infection on my spine at the site of the incision. This created another surgery to remove the device and clean out the infection. This then lays me up for two months with a PIC line and antibiotics by IV twice a day and a nurse coming daily to pack the open incision until it closes. Meanwhile I'm not aloud to do anything. This took three months of my life I can't get back. Then two months later, I get violently sick and spend a whole month in bed until they finally figured out I had contracted C-diff infection, most likely from the massive doses of Vancomycin to kill the staff infection weakening my ability to fight it.. So I have to take another antibiotic to kill that infection. Next for two months I am too exhausted to function. They attribute this to the C-DIFF infection and I am given large doses of vitamins by injection every day for two weeks to counteract the exhaustion.
After this I am finally feeling half decent and can get back to living and trying to get into my shop.
Then my favorite dog dies from congestive heart failure about a week ago.
Well ...... the doctor called today. They do a yearly CT scan to check my ascending aortic aneurysm which they did last Friday. It seems my aneurysm has grown. It was stable for the last 9 years but is now getting worse. I have to go talk to the vascular surgeon about options and when and if intervention is required. The surgery to replace the aortic arch that comes from the heart is risky and dangerous at best. The mortality rate is poor.
Seems I can't catch a break this year. The only thing that keeps me going is, I can look around and there is always someone worse off than me. I will keep plugging away and hope to beat this too. God's will will be done either way.