We are a week out from surgery now and it's all a little to real.
This afternoon we go to the clinic for the ET nurse to mark Mike for his ileostomy. We are going to be sticklers for where the stoma is placed because Mike plans on being active. We plan on going on with our lives. He's even taken his backpack with so that placement doesn't interfere with the hip belt. What this means for me is that I'm not going to get out of hiking the entire Superior Hiking Trail, the Border Route and Kekekabic Trail in Minnesota. It's all a little scary....
Our entourage is building. We have my sister Linda flying back early from a Hawaiian vacation to be with us on surgery day and stay with us until we are settled at home. My friends Karen and Tammy are coming to wait with me on surgery day. I think Justine will be with us too. And, we just got word that Mike's brother Terry and his wife Judy will be coming here this week and then will follow us to the big city to be there for Mike and I on surgery day. It's good that Mike will have some of his own family there. He needs all the love and support he can get.
Back here I know all of you will be thinking and sending good thoughts, prayers etc. Dave, Tammy, Claire and Caleb will be house/critter sitting and that takes a huge weight off my shoulders.
So, that's where we are today. I have salsa on the stove and more tomatoes to deal with yet today. I've decided that tomatoes are like zuchini - you don't have to plant them because sooner or later someone will have too many and want you to take them. That's my case. My boss Carol gave me plenty and now they need tending. Our garden is done except for a few carrots and beets which can just wait. I don't have the dead plants out but that will give me something to do this spring. Later this week I will take my bulbs out and call it good. It was a pretty good year for our garden and we have plenty to eat for the winter thanks to my son and daughter-in-laws help!
I'm gonna go have a cup of coffee and watch the snow fall for a while and head back to the 'matoes.
Peace to All
Karen
2 comments:
Surgery? What surgery? I thought it was a knitting retreat....although now that you mention it, a hospital waiting room is a bit on the odd side for a retreat....
j/k - love ya both,
Knits with Arrows
I have been thinking about you guys a lot the past few days. Thinking about the magnitude of what you are going through and what this week might be like. Wish I could be there right now. I am having a cup of apple cider "with you" right now. Peace, Becca
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