adding my 2 cents to off topic stuff
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 12:17 pm
Reading about all of the life issues that have been dealt to some of our PAO sisters and family, I am sincerely saddened to hear about all of this. You know who you are.
Please know that I am thinking of you and sending healing vibes and prayers to you.
It has been interesting here since just after Christmas. Greg had a knee replacement on 12/27. All went well. Looking forward to Greg retiring at the end of April. At the end of February 2023 we both were sick. Lung congestion, pneumonia for Greg. Well, it all persisted. Eventually I got better after antibiotics and time. Greg spent a couple days in the hospital for pneumonia. On April 4th, at a follow up visit and chest x ray, he was told to go to ER. Come to find out he had massive fluid build up around the lungs. Pulmonary docs wanted a surgeon to consult, but the thoracic surgeon was away for a few days. Local hospital wanted to pass Greg off to a larger hospital in Toledo or Columbus. Since Greg went through bone marrow transplant in 2017 at OSU in Columbus, and his DR is there, he opted to go there. It took 5 days to get a bed at OSU. Once there, the docs did what the local docs did not want to do, drain some fluid bedside, no surgeon involved. Well, they drained about 2 liters of fluid that day. G U S H, out it came. Sent some off to be tested. Come to find out the fluid contained Leukemia cells. He was diagnosed with AML later changed to Myeloid Sarcoma because the Leukemia was not found in blood nor bone marrow. Leave it to Greg to get a RARE Leukemia. He was started on a 7/21 chemo regiment that Greg says nearly killed him and he was ready to go. He was a sight. I was totally freaked out by it all. Columbus is 2 hours from our home, and I drove that MANY times in one day. Lots of trips back and forth. He spent 58 days in the hospital with about 3 total liters of fluid removed from chest. he was discharged on June 1st. He is in remission. He is on low oxygen now, but had much higher use during hospital stay. Docs were very concerned about all the oxygen needs. This past week he had another bone marrow biopsy and a Pet Scan. Waiting on results. Next week chest ultrasound and DR visits. Thankfully he has blood/lab work done locally. During the early part of hospital stay, he pulled his retirement papers and went on medical. Work/job is still on hold.
I have been dealing with Cataract and Glaucoma surgeries since February! My right eye done in Feb. has been a bugger, and causing extra issues. Just last week I was allowed to order new glasses. Got them yesterday, though not perfect, which we knew may happen. May have to be tweaked to have vision less blurry. Geez. I've been driving around with no glasses just fine, which in the past I could never do. Fine print was no print as far as the new eye situation went. Used readers to get by. If it isn't one thing, it's another.
Hoping you have a restful, peaceful 4th of July weekend.
Please know that I am thinking of you and sending healing vibes and prayers to you.
It has been interesting here since just after Christmas. Greg had a knee replacement on 12/27. All went well. Looking forward to Greg retiring at the end of April. At the end of February 2023 we both were sick. Lung congestion, pneumonia for Greg. Well, it all persisted. Eventually I got better after antibiotics and time. Greg spent a couple days in the hospital for pneumonia. On April 4th, at a follow up visit and chest x ray, he was told to go to ER. Come to find out he had massive fluid build up around the lungs. Pulmonary docs wanted a surgeon to consult, but the thoracic surgeon was away for a few days. Local hospital wanted to pass Greg off to a larger hospital in Toledo or Columbus. Since Greg went through bone marrow transplant in 2017 at OSU in Columbus, and his DR is there, he opted to go there. It took 5 days to get a bed at OSU. Once there, the docs did what the local docs did not want to do, drain some fluid bedside, no surgeon involved. Well, they drained about 2 liters of fluid that day. G U S H, out it came. Sent some off to be tested. Come to find out the fluid contained Leukemia cells. He was diagnosed with AML later changed to Myeloid Sarcoma because the Leukemia was not found in blood nor bone marrow. Leave it to Greg to get a RARE Leukemia. He was started on a 7/21 chemo regiment that Greg says nearly killed him and he was ready to go. He was a sight. I was totally freaked out by it all. Columbus is 2 hours from our home, and I drove that MANY times in one day. Lots of trips back and forth. He spent 58 days in the hospital with about 3 total liters of fluid removed from chest. he was discharged on June 1st. He is in remission. He is on low oxygen now, but had much higher use during hospital stay. Docs were very concerned about all the oxygen needs. This past week he had another bone marrow biopsy and a Pet Scan. Waiting on results. Next week chest ultrasound and DR visits. Thankfully he has blood/lab work done locally. During the early part of hospital stay, he pulled his retirement papers and went on medical. Work/job is still on hold.
I have been dealing with Cataract and Glaucoma surgeries since February! My right eye done in Feb. has been a bugger, and causing extra issues. Just last week I was allowed to order new glasses. Got them yesterday, though not perfect, which we knew may happen. May have to be tweaked to have vision less blurry. Geez. I've been driving around with no glasses just fine, which in the past I could never do. Fine print was no print as far as the new eye situation went. Used readers to get by. If it isn't one thing, it's another.
Hoping you have a restful, peaceful 4th of July weekend.