Radiation!
Radiation is done! Now it's time to concentrate on eating and getting stronger. Physical and occupational therapy will now be taken more seriously since he will be getting stronger. Bill even ate some ribs last night and a tasty taco for lunch today. Already his appetite is getting better. Probably another week until he has more strength back and he can be on his feet again. woo hoo!!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
7 months.....really
So its been over a month since my last post and so much has gone down that I decided to just make an ordered list of the events that have happened.
1) After his fist day of radiation ( July 27th) he fell in some bushes outside of Bel Air and got a few "little" cuts on his leg. It was funny at the time but little did we know it would turn out to be not so funny.
2) About 2 weeks later his cuts he got were looking infected and were oozing a lot. His leg started to turn red and it was starting to hurt Bill to walk on it. We decided to take Bill to the ER when his leg was getting a purplish color. We got to the ER around 9pm and there was no one waiting! But we still didn't leave till 2am...not chill.
3) The ER doctor said the leg had an infection and he gave him some antibiotics.
4) 2 days later he had an appointment with the hematology doctor just for a routine check up. His leg was still not getting better and was getting even harder to walk.
5) The hematology doctor admitted him to the hospital so that he could get antibiotics through an IV. Turned out the ER doctor gave him a quarter of the antibiotics that he really needed...shocker.
6) After trying various kinds of antibiotics and ten days in the hospital Bill was free to go. Still couldn't walk because of the infection so they were going to transfer him to a live in rehab facility.
7) By the way he couldn't get radiation this whole time, so it kept getting pushed back.
8) The first rehab place they sent him was pretty much a scary movie. It was an old folks home...i know Bills old but not this old. Bill was dropped off at this facility around 5pm and was left in his room unattended, not seen by any nurse, not given any antibiotics, not elevating his leg for about 3 hours. We knew we had to bust him out of that place so we called the VA and set up for transportation to come pick him up and take him back to the hospital.
9) We found a new rehab center in Roseville that had a better vibe. The nurses actually gave medicine and checked up on you.
10) Bill started his radiation back up once he was set up at this rehab center and he now only has 5 more treatments!
11) The doctors never tell you how bad the side effects of anything will be. They said that during radiation Bill would be a little tired and may loose his appetite. But what they don't tell you is that he will be so tired that he doesn't want to get out of bed and that any kind of food tastes like throw up...even my mom's good home cookin.
12) Each day Bill is getting stronger and is doing physical therapy everyday, even on the weekends. He is now practicing using his walker. He is just so weak from the radiation that he can only do so much. The doctors say that it takes a few weeks after radiation for his strength to come back.
13) So in the end that fall back in July turned out to be not so funny.
1) After his fist day of radiation ( July 27th) he fell in some bushes outside of Bel Air and got a few "little" cuts on his leg. It was funny at the time but little did we know it would turn out to be not so funny.
2) About 2 weeks later his cuts he got were looking infected and were oozing a lot. His leg started to turn red and it was starting to hurt Bill to walk on it. We decided to take Bill to the ER when his leg was getting a purplish color. We got to the ER around 9pm and there was no one waiting! But we still didn't leave till 2am...not chill.
3) The ER doctor said the leg had an infection and he gave him some antibiotics.
4) 2 days later he had an appointment with the hematology doctor just for a routine check up. His leg was still not getting better and was getting even harder to walk.
5) The hematology doctor admitted him to the hospital so that he could get antibiotics through an IV. Turned out the ER doctor gave him a quarter of the antibiotics that he really needed...shocker.
6) After trying various kinds of antibiotics and ten days in the hospital Bill was free to go. Still couldn't walk because of the infection so they were going to transfer him to a live in rehab facility.
7) By the way he couldn't get radiation this whole time, so it kept getting pushed back.
8) The first rehab place they sent him was pretty much a scary movie. It was an old folks home...i know Bills old but not this old. Bill was dropped off at this facility around 5pm and was left in his room unattended, not seen by any nurse, not given any antibiotics, not elevating his leg for about 3 hours. We knew we had to bust him out of that place so we called the VA and set up for transportation to come pick him up and take him back to the hospital.
9) We found a new rehab center in Roseville that had a better vibe. The nurses actually gave medicine and checked up on you.
10) Bill started his radiation back up once he was set up at this rehab center and he now only has 5 more treatments!
11) The doctors never tell you how bad the side effects of anything will be. They said that during radiation Bill would be a little tired and may loose his appetite. But what they don't tell you is that he will be so tired that he doesn't want to get out of bed and that any kind of food tastes like throw up...even my mom's good home cookin.
12) Each day Bill is getting stronger and is doing physical therapy everyday, even on the weekends. He is now practicing using his walker. He is just so weak from the radiation that he can only do so much. The doctors say that it takes a few weeks after radiation for his strength to come back.
13) So in the end that fall back in July turned out to be not so funny.
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