Reflections of The Heart

Well, Jo got to leave teh hospital yesterday.  She’s currently at my house waiting on her room to get cleaned out (the kids have been home alone most of October and her room has kind of become a “catch all” place to put things. 
 
Anyway… she’s doing okay… still has the clots, but knows the symptoms [...]

Okay guys, Kara here.  As you can imagine life has been amazingly crazy.  Noone’s getting sleep, and we’re all pretty ready for this to be over.  I’ll try to update again later because I know that everyone will want one (thanks for all the emails and messages.  Sorry I couldn’t respond one-on-one).
Highlights

Donnie and I went to [...]

Well, I finally finished my own anti-biotics so I got to come to the hospital.  Which is good, because I think my mom’s really at her wits-end…
Let’s see:  Good news:  Her counts are up, actually well enough to go home
Bad news:  She looks really, really bad, guys.  I mean really bad.  This is the first [...]

Hi, Kara here…
I wanted to give everyone a really quick update.
Jo’s quite sick… I’m trying not to feel guilty about that as I visited with Strep, but…  Anyway, she’s in the hospital and will be for who knows how long.  Her white blood cell count is virtually non-existant… she ran around 104 temp all night [...]

with a couple of prayer requests.
1.  Jo won’t start chemo tomorrow.  At the earliest she will go in on Wednesday.  But tomorrow she’ll go in for some more tests.  Apparently her heart is not strong enough for one of her two chemo meds.  If it doesn’t strengthen, she won’t be able to do that med [...]

Well, again, I don’t know when she’s going to get out, but I thought I’d do a quick update.
They took Jo in last night and did another surgery, this time to put in a filter for the P.E.s.  It was all very quick.  Mom didn’t even have a chance to call me about it until [...]

Well, if you want to see an update from Jo, check the comments from the last post.
As of right now, we’re not sure she’s going to get discharged today (like was planned).  She did finally get a tiny bit of sleep last night b/c they had her on an oxygen tank while she slept.  But [...]

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 [...]

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Well, Johnna’s surgery is ONE WEEK AWAY and we’re trying to get as much for the benefit organized and wrapped up by then. But we need help!!!! If anyone is available and/or willing to help out with the following projects, please let me know!
Kara
Project 1: anytime August 4th-August 13th: Solicit donations for the silent auction, [...]

Let us know if anyone would like the following postcards to distribute to those they know or flyers to hang up to advertise the benefit.
 

We’ve set up a benefit account at ISPFCU.  Checks can be made out to Johnna Hood Benefit Fund and mailed to
ISPFCU
730 Engineering Ave.
Springfield, IL 62703
 
 
Thanks everyone!
Kara
 
 
 

This is Kara… Jo added me as a contributor so that I can update when she’s not feeling well and can talk about benefit stuff.  We’re still trying to find a date for the benefit.  It’s a tough summer with weddings and all.  But I’m pushing for July 19th.  I know that will be the [...]