One Year

I had been putting off a post about one year since Karen was diagnosed with cancer.  Originally I was going to post about how much things had changed for us in the last year.  Experiences over the last two days have made me reevaluate that approach.

One year ago on February 10th 2014 I drove Karen to what wr thought was going to be a relatively short visit.  An hour drive up, an hour or so with the doctor and an hour drive home.  That three hours turned into a three week hospital stay for Karen.  Becca was born a short time later and ended up in the hospital a bit longer than Karen.  We made it through that and I sure Karen will make it through the latesy problem.

Wednesday night Karen was not holding anything down.  After a while dry heaving was bringing up blood.  A quick call to the doctor's office at 3AM and we were in our way to the ER.  Gratefully, Karen's parents were staying with us after Karen's last chemo treatment on Tuesday.  They were able to stay with the kids while I drove Karen.

After a few tests the staff in the ER decided there was some real cause for concern about a possible sepsis infection.  Wanting to make sure she was near the best available care Karen was transferred to a hospital with an ICU.  Karen is doing well and we are waiting on the results of her continurd blood tests to know how to proceed.  Sepsis hasn't been entirely ruled out but they are leaning more towards severe dehydration.  At this point we will just wait and see, then do our best to deal with anything that comes our way.

Karen is sleeping now and in my opinion has improved significantly over the last 36 hours.  She is pushing a little for more food.  I think she is a little worried about the variety and is having flashbacks to the puréed and liquid diets she was put on last year.

Still keeping it positive.

Braden