Ok, so most of you may know of how my wife was in the hospital for a week....and I appoligize that I have not updated on here at all for over a month. That was close to a month ago that Brandie was in Legacy Good Samaritan here in Portland OR.
For anyone who does not know what is going on with her, she has a blood clot in her left lung, her right atrium of her heart is enlarged from the blood clot causing pulmenary strain...she was kinda dehydrated, her thyroid was in a major storm like state and had sweeled up to the size of her fist in the matter of minutes....and after a battery of tests were done, she was told that she has Hypertyroidism and more specifically a form of it called Graves Disease.
For a while when she first got out of the hospital I was having to give her shots of a blood thinner str8 injected into the fatty tissue of her tummy...and was taking upwards of 26 pills a day. She doesn't take as much meds anymore for the time being and that's a good thing...but her blood levels are not where the docs would like to see them at yet...so we don't know if I will have to give her those shots again. I am praying that I don't because it killed me everytime I had to poke her. To see her cry from the pain...I don't wish it on anyone.
So we went and saw her endocrinoligist the other day...and the option of surgery to take out her thyroid is a possibility...seeing as they saw two masses inside of the glad itself on either side but cannot do it as of yet because again of the blood thinners and all of that. So for now, I give her her meds for her heart and the commidin..which just ran out...and I pray every day for the best and that she gets better.
I know I may not have been much of a "lover" to her lately...but I am trying. I have even went as far as to sleep on the couch for the last month so she can be comfortable in the bed and roll with the punches as they come...
But everyday she gets better and better.
Keep us in your prayers....keep her in your prayers more so then I... Thank you and have a Merry Christmas all..
We are going to be trying to have a good Christmas..she deserves a break ya know?
Bleesed Be,
Reese
