Saturday, April 3, 2010

New Post New Post lalalalalalalaaaaaa!!!!

Well, in the past months I have been through speech, occupational and pulmorinary therapy. I graduated from the first in Dec. and the last late Feb. My mother talked about a women named Debbie in one of her posts. Debbie's husband is doing great! Erin(that's his name) was in my 6 weeks pulmanary therapy. We worked to build our strength side by side. Michael I'd like to know how your father is doing and I hope that he is alive and getting better. I'm doing great! I've been trying to get a job and last week I got 2 but I think I'm being worn out by both...so I think I might have to give up one. I've been deeply blessed. Thank you for all your comments and love. I treasure them deeply. To those I've never met...I hope that one day we may meet!!! My our Father in Heaven bless you all!!!!!

with all the love i possess-
-Carolyn-

3 comments:

  1. Carolyn -

    So glad to hear you are well. I still get updates from this blog, even after these many months. I'm the "Michael" from the earlier comments.

    My father is well now - he went through a similar journey as yourself. He is back at work, and while not back to 100%, I'd say he is at a good 90%. After being taken off the RotoProne bed, he took about two weeks to wake up fully. He was on the bed 8 days, and didn't leave the hospital until early December. He was able to enter a full-time physical therapy/occupational therapy rehab unit within the hospital - and with the help of the amazing staff, was able to walk again quite quickly.

    While on the Rotoprone, my Dad was diagnosed with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which was quite scary indeed. He was not a smoker and had no lung issues before the pneumonia. We are very lucky he has recovered so well from such a serious complication.

    The scariest part of our family's ordeal was that my Dad took a very, very long time to come out of the induced coma. (About a week!) He was diagnosed with "Critical Illness Polyneuropathy" - which basically means his central nervous system stopped working. Thankfully, he also recovered completely from this complication as well. His memory is back fully, and the only residual complication is that the nerves that control the stabilizing muscles around his ankles don't work completely. He is walking with the help of these high-tech carbon-fiber braces (you wouldn't even know he is wearing them unless he tells you). He is still working on walking without them, but it is more difficult.

    My father and our family is so lucky that things turned out the way they did. I can't tell you enough about how much your family and this blog meant to me while I was at home with my Dad. I took nearly three weeks off work to come across the country to support him, and there were some very scary and difficult days there. I happened upon this blog while searching the internet for people with a similar story to my Dad's. ...I was searching for hope. Everything I read, and every story I heard, involved a very negative outcome or even death. Seeing the post on this blog that you had come off the RotoProne lifted my sprits in ways I can't even really explain. The hope this blog provided me allowed me to have the strength to sit with my Dad, day by day, and bring positive energy to his fight against the flu and pneumonia.

    I'm so happy you are doing so well - and again, many thanks to those who maintained this blog for you.

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