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A busy day of meeting news just in from Sharon Priest, the Executive Director of The Downtown Little Rock Partnership:
Bill Conway from Conway + Schulte will be in town Feb. 5 to make a presentation to the Parks Commission. We also want Bill to make a final presentation to our group. So, the MacPark Group will meet on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 8:00AM at the Museum. The Parks Commission will meet and have a presentation of the master plan at 11:30 - 1PM at Metroplan (across from City Hall) and a meeting with the historic District Commission will also be scheduled that day.
John and Linda Fordyce
- Linda
- We are so blessed to have a great family and so many, many good, loving friends who are concerned and praying for Linda when she needs it. Thank you!
Friday, January 23, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Home Friday
Ok - a full week in the hospital
Mom says they are going to let her go tomorrow since they want to change her dressing themselves one more time then and they have been getting training on the picc line for her skin graft. They have also had some delays in lining up home health help.
Mom says they are going to let her go tomorrow since they want to change her dressing themselves one more time then and they have been getting training on the picc line for her skin graft. They have also had some delays in lining up home health help.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Home tomorrow
The following in green came from Mom today:
After the Fri surgery, the culture in the petrie dish grew a common type of staph infection called aureus. The name means gold because the culture grows out little grape cluster-like shiny gold pebbles. google it. The VERY strong antibiotics I've been getting are already helping, but now they can use even more specific ones for this staph. It lives on everyone's skin everywhere. Nice that I'm the first one to use this new hospital room and this was the first day they'd ever used the new surgery room.
Today surgery went well. They put a layer of artificial skin on the wound. In about a month another surgery will do another skin graft with my own skin. That has to heal, infection-free, then they can do the arthopaedic surgery to fix all the bones. They also installed a PICC line today that is a long-use iv wih an 18 inch tube that goes all the way inside to just above my heart. A great improvement and can't infiltrate.
They believe they got all the staph out of the skin and bone they removed in the surgery Fri.
I'm in good spirits and my faith is in gear better since I know they can treat this....not easy, but do-able.
so much love to my dear family.
John and Dean have been great, as always.
After the Fri surgery, the culture in the petrie dish grew a common type of staph infection called aureus. The name means gold because the culture grows out little grape cluster-like shiny gold pebbles. google it. The VERY strong antibiotics I've been getting are already helping, but now they can use even more specific ones for this staph. It lives on everyone's skin everywhere. Nice that I'm the first one to use this new hospital room and this was the first day they'd ever used the new surgery room.
Today surgery went well. They put a layer of artificial skin on the wound. In about a month another surgery will do another skin graft with my own skin. That has to heal, infection-free, then they can do the arthopaedic surgery to fix all the bones. They also installed a PICC line today that is a long-use iv wih an 18 inch tube that goes all the way inside to just above my heart. A great improvement and can't infiltrate.
They believe they got all the staph out of the skin and bone they removed in the surgery Fri.
I'm in good spirits and my faith is in gear better since I know they can treat this....not easy, but do-able.
so much love to my dear family.
John and Dean have been great, as always.
Monday, January 19, 2009
BIG NEWS -- SURGERY TUESDAY , NOT WEDNESDAY NOW !
This email came from Mom today:
Dr. Boeckman, resident this month with Dr. Yuen, came in after dinner to say there was an opening in surgery for tomorrow morning. I'll go in at 8:00am.
They will use a layer of artificial skin for this skin graft, it covers better from the start. Then in up to a month I'll have another skin graft surgery to put some of my skin on top of that. I will continue with antibiotics as before. They may can even improve on what to do with the information about the aureus staph.
A few days after surgery they will install a picc line which is starting an iv that can be used for weeks. I can continue antibotics at home.....yet another surgery!
Please keep me in your prayers.
Lovingly,
Mom
Dr. Boeckman, resident this month with Dr. Yuen, came in after dinner to say there was an opening in surgery for tomorrow morning. I'll go in at 8:00am.
They will use a layer of artificial skin for this skin graft, it covers better from the start. Then in up to a month I'll have another skin graft surgery to put some of my skin on top of that. I will continue with antibiotics as before. They may can even improve on what to do with the information about the aureus staph.
A few days after surgery they will install a picc line which is starting an iv that can be used for weeks. I can continue antibotics at home.....yet another surgery!
Please keep me in your prayers.
Lovingly,
Mom
Sunday, January 18, 2009
In her own words from room 625
Mom is doing well, considering, in her new room at UAMS. I emailed her just to tell her I love her and she typed back the following info:
Dr Yuen spells his name like this, I just noticed. Yuen he is great. He and his team change the dressing on my wound twice a day and are so careful to observe strict sterile procedures. They inject morphine into my IV line just before starting to clean it and that helps with the pain also. Today he said it looks like he can do the new skin graft on my elbow Wednesday. That gives me such a lift to hear that good news. When that heals, it's on to the orthopaedic surgery on those poor old bones. After that, maybe with PT I can get closer to a normal life.
I'm always amazed at how much she can type with one hand and in her condition.
My daughter, Shannon, has recently taken an interest in bones. She drew a very good skeletal hand today and I quized her about the bones and we talked about the ones that her Nana has yet to be fixed, where they are broken, (which we aren't entirely sure), and how her wrist was in so many pieces. Our wrists have 8 or more bones to them. She is teaching me.
What's really strange is how I get simpathy sick. When my children are sick or hurt I am too, in similar ways. Lately I have had an achy right wrist and sore left elbow. Weird huh?
Dr Yuen spells his name like this, I just noticed. Yuen he is great. He and his team change the dressing on my wound twice a day and are so careful to observe strict sterile procedures. They inject morphine into my IV line just before starting to clean it and that helps with the pain also. Today he said it looks like he can do the new skin graft on my elbow Wednesday. That gives me such a lift to hear that good news. When that heals, it's on to the orthopaedic surgery on those poor old bones. After that, maybe with PT I can get closer to a normal life.
I'm always amazed at how much she can type with one hand and in her condition.
My daughter, Shannon, has recently taken an interest in bones. She drew a very good skeletal hand today and I quized her about the bones and we talked about the ones that her Nana has yet to be fixed, where they are broken, (which we aren't entirely sure), and how her wrist was in so many pieces. Our wrists have 8 or more bones to them. She is teaching me.
What's really strange is how I get simpathy sick. When my children are sick or hurt I am too, in similar ways. Lately I have had an achy right wrist and sore left elbow. Weird huh?
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