Quick update from Kara
Posted by: Kara on: August 11, 2008
Sorry it’s taken me awhile to get an update up, all. Both of the computers I’ve had access to today have decided to be excruciatingly slow 
Anyway. Johnna’s surgery went fine. No complications. We won’t know what the margins are yet until the pathology’s back and that will be a few days, but things looked pretty encapsalated during the surgery, which is good
Let’s see. She’s in a lot of pain and getting a ton of drugs for it She’s in room 411 (4B wing) and will be at least through Wednesday afternoon, we’re not sure yet when exactly she gets to go home.
I think that’s it for now. Thanks for your prayers and support.
There are a few of us going out on Tuesday night (tomorrow) to solicite donations and ask business to post flyers about the benefit. If anyone wants to join us, please let me know
Love
Kara
johnnahood
Kara
August 12, 2008 at 6:15 pm
well i can’t get to wordpress to actually post an update so i thougt i’d post a comment to what i can read…so here’s an update…things are going FANTASTICALLY really…the pain is under control and a lot less than I was expecting…my mobility is amazingly better than I thought it would be…i have a leg imobolizer that I’ll have to keep on for a while (no def. for “a while” I was just told “a while”) so I can’t bend my knee or my hip/thigh to sit which is akward but we’ve done quite a bit of physical and occupational therapy today to work on that (sitting on toilet, up and down stairs etc) and that’s gone great…I know this may be immodest but I’m rocking at the mobility thing
…My O2 levels still crash when I sleep b/c I stop breathing as soon as I actually go to sleep so we are still having to look into that…right now their cure is O2 when I sleep which is great for here…not so great for home seeing as I have no O2 there…so like I said working on that…otherwise things are good…just trying to stay on top of the mobility thing b/c I don’t want to get stiff and immobile so I push myself a bit (not too much but a bit)…the therapists keep telling me they rarely have patients who are actually excited to see them and don’t mind them (the therapists) pushing the patient…the crew up here in 4B are amazing! Kudos to them! And peace out and love to all