Summer 2017

Blog candidate for 6/2/2017 - by Steve
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It has just turned June, and despite knowing otherwise, it also has become Summer, 2017. I really can't account for the passage of time, but I do feel better, so something is recovering.

The past two months have been focused on my kidneys. While doing a routine checkup a few months ago, Docter's found a largish stone in my left kidney. It was located where it was unlikely to move and cause problems, so I was told to merrily keep an eye on it.

Well, it got huge, and was causing problems, making a visit to a Urologist an important thing to do. The Docter was very re-assuring, so surgery was scheduled.

What was supposed to be a simple outpatient liptotripsy (blasting the stone into small, easily passable pieces), it turned into much more. Following my third visit to their surgery center, I was stuck with needles 17 times in two days before they decided a PICC line might be a good idea. But after the third attempt to make everything right again, I developed a blood infection that landed me back in the hospital for a week, followed by a week in a skilled nursing hospital.

In the mean time, some of you heard about Nancys fall and broken knee over at Florence Mall. She also hit her forehead, so I have been living with a raccoon (black eyes) these last few weeks. This time, I can credibly tell people that I have an ironclad alibi. But after taking it easy for a few days while Becky and Tim both swooped in to help, we're both feeling better.

We went down to the townhouse on Monday, and took a final look at the rennovations we will need. I have contracted with a company from Cincy to provide and install a modular ramp to our front door. Hopefully, this will allow me access to our home, ending all the speculation about sleeping in the garage or on the curb out front.

After the fourth and, hopefully, final kidney procedure this week, I had nearly two hundred messages, voice mails, and e-mails, from being gone only a few hours. I feel great, better than I have in many months. Once this is mostly resolved, we need to celebrate!

May God bless all of you who have been praying for us. DON' T STOP!!! We need your prayers now as much as when this all started. But some of our attention is being refocused on the task of moving back to our home and finding people that will help us with this transition.

Good fortune and God bless to all - Steve & Nancy