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More Bad News 8/10/11 4:55 PM
Things are not looking good for Ron right now. It looks like he has gone septic but will not know for certain til the cultures come back. The hardest thing for me is seeing him unaware of his surroundings. Afraid because he doesn't know where he is. Slipping between the present and the past. He's having flashbacks from Viet Nam which is very upsetting. Talks about seeing people get killed, even little children. This becomes his present. Then he thinks he's a P.O.W. and all the tubes are ropes tying him down. His hospital band become handcuffs. He is terrified. Then he starts seeing people in the room or thinking they have monitoring devices everywhere. He has always been so strong and it's breaking my heart to see him like this. He always knows me thank God for that but he rarely knows where we are and he rarely makes any sense when he is talking.He has many other symptoms of sepsis but this is the most disturbing to me. His sacral wound is bad. Had more surgery yesterday. They just keep cutting more and more away and more and more of it keeps dying. The social worker here is setting up a meeting with all the doctors involved to discuss Ron's future. Does he come home with just comfort measures or is there any hope at all that he can survive this too? I thought I was getting his room ready last week for him to come home and get well. Now I'm not so sure. I'll have to see what all the Drs. say but I can't see us just giving up. Please pray for us.This is tearing me apart. I love you all, Kathleen
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