Emergency Room Update

Just a quick note to let you know that we’re home and the doctor wasn’t too concerned—but he (and the nurse who removed the blood soaked bandages) both agreed that it was wise for us to have gone in. It really was incredible how much blood there was—apparently there must be an unhappy vein in there.

Oh, and if you don’t yet follow me on FaceBook and you have no idea what I’m talking about, this was the post Fred & I put up from the E.R. a couple of hours ago:

“It’s 10:00PM and we’re at the Emergency Room. My “should just be three tiny little steri-strips over 1/4 inch cuts” wound care has, for some unknown reason, completed SOAKED my bandages in dark blood. So we’re here to a) get things checked out; and b) get some help redressing these wounds b/c OH MY STARS, that’s a lot of blood. Thanks for your prayers.”

I was actually embarrassed to have gone in (I hate to waste doctor/nurse/E.R. time!) right up until the doctor was done, had left the room, and my knee started gushing ridiculously dark blood again. Scary! But good to have happened right there, right then. I’m chalking that up to prayer.

So now we’re home. I’m holding my therapy right here on my boppy (I was SO stressed in the E.R.! My BP was 155/102 and usually I’m a 108/69 kind of gal) and hoping that Fred and my mother in law can get some sleep soon. Oh, and me too I guess.

Here’s to hopin’ this blog will return to its regularly scheduled programming one of these days …

Thanks for all of your grace! G’nite and God bless—

Yours,
Tara B.