![]() ![]() Thank you all again for all the support and well-wishes - I can't tell you how much it means to me. I think I might have the opportunity to take a new lease on life. The doctor moved up Dad's operation so I can be present for it, and Dad and I are connecting in a new and refreshing way (our relationship has been.difficult to say the least). and I ran into my high school sweetheart! Oh my.this is starting to sound like soap opera - This trip has become like a whirlwind of re-connection and possibility. Some things have happened here in just a few days that have shown me that I have a lot more options than I even thought, that I NEED to take control of my OWN life.and that I don't have to put up with the things I've been putting up with. I've reconnected with so many of my old friends.and really have started to see the forest AND the trees on things at the place where I've been staying.For anyone keeping up with my Diary of an Educated Idiot looks like this "tragedy" is going to become the opportunity I've needed to escape my crappy domestic situation. You are SO right Izzy.as a matter of fact, this whole trip home is beginning to reek of new beginnings and the turning of new leaves. You will come through this and be happier at the end of the day. But he may still grieve, and that is only natural. He will appreciate that constant reminder. Remind him, if need be, that his health/happiness comes first. He has to grieve for his lost foot, but you will be there for him. They have to take a little more away to ensure the remaining part has not already been infected.īut hey when he has his new limb fitted he'll feel like a new man! It's a long rough road ahead. It is quite normal in this type of surgery to either have below knee or above knee surgery. But people who are fit and well cope much much better than those less so. Normal doctors and surgeons don't have the training. So many things things can go wrong while under anaesthesia - that is why the speciality of anaesthesia is that - a speciality. It is being under anaesthetic for an extended period of time that makes major surgery so difficult, not the actual procedure. I think that's great news! He's looking good pre-operatively so he is has a better chance of looking good post-op as well! The medical professionals helping people after amputation are amazing, and know just how to do things to help patients recover and adjust. People so often, somehow, just have a way of coming to terms with this kind of thing. My friend went to see her mother and was relieved when her mother said, "The way I look it at, good riddance." She said her mother said what people often don't realize is that knowing the disease is there makes a person "just want it gone". My friend was SO worried about how her mother would handle things after the surgery. This is a different medical problem (but it may kind of apply). (Diabetes and that kind of surgery touched my family and friends more than once.) As Izzy pointed out, lots of people get through it and do well afterward. That kind of surgery is far more common than a lot of us realize unless/until someone we know goes through it. Your father and you are, of course, in the thoughts and prayers of a lot of Hubbers here (including mine).
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