Memnison Journal

We knew as the season for skating drew to its close that the first priority (before Meredith went back to school) would be surgery on both of her feet for her flat-feet condition (which her sister shares) that we had confirmed this spring with the family podiatrist.   Mere didn’t get nervous about the surgery until [...]

For all of the folks in Facebook who invite me to participate in a game: Sorry, don’t have the time to play them, and I distrust a lot of the join-this stuff in Facebook anyway. For all the folks anywhere who invite me to events out of town (Chicago): Sorry, too laid up after the [...]

As you can imagine, the champions (my Mere and her pairs partner Eric) are in seventh heaven – as I write this, Susan and Mere are on their way home to us, bearing a new gold medal.   And, of course, all their stuff. The last year, in dealing with Mere getting serious on roller-skating competitive [...]

Went to the podiatrist/surgeon on Monday, and he’s leaving in the stitches for longer – I’m a slow healer, and there’s a couple of small gaps in the thing. He’s switched over to a much smaller bandage thing, essentially enough to cover the incision, and has to be redone every day with special silver gel [...]

Susan and Meredith are supposed to leave tomorrow in the morning for Lincoln, Nebraska, to the roller-skating National competition, and they will have to work really hard to be ready by then. I worry about Susan burning the candle at both ends mentally and physically with this trip, but there’s darn little I can do [...]

The latest on all of the medical stuff is that I haven’t healed enough on the bottom of my foot for the Doc to be able to let me really walk on it again, so he has basically told me that I will be off my feet until my next visit with him next Monday [...]

* the kids have this insatiable desire to mess around with and ride on my walker, wheelchair and roll-about knee walker; Mere has been drooling over the idea of a swiss army knife for a while, bought one with her money, and proceeded to try to disassemble everything in sight – including the aforementioned AND [...]

Thanks for all the good wishes, prayers and thoughts! The pain in my left foot is a LOT less, and I now have my roll-about knee walker, so I’m more mobile to get around inside the basement and out to the driveway – but it’s hot enough that I don’t much feel like doing so. [...]

..very quick one. In a fair amount of pain from the operation (and doped up with T3), which went well – lost a pint of blood, and assorted parts of my left foot. Can’t use it at all – very strict doctors orders. And for all those asking, no, I won’t be going to the [...]

The foot surgery is coming up tomorrow (Monday) – have to be at the hospital at 5:30 am, surgery at 7 and probably home by 12 noon or a little later. On the one hand, I’ll be relived to get it behind me and hopefully be a whole lot more functional; however, it’s not going [...]

(1)  The surgery on my LEFT foot is still hanging fire, but this time, it’s because the various docs who had to give me clearance didn’t do so (first due to a goofy EKG that showed up nothing in a stress test, and then due to a white count that is pretty comparable with what [...]

Going to the emergency room with another leg infection, this time from a gash on my right leg…been doing what I could to reduce things over the last few days since I got the gash, but it’s getting red and heating up. You can’t imagine how upset and annoyed I am about this.    More later; [...]

On Saturday, I started getting the red splotchy stuff, and it was really apparent Sunday noonish that it wasn’t going away and my body temp was going up in the area, and so on…so we went off to Edward Hospital in Naperville – to get a fresh set of eyes on the situation, since I [...]

This is the sort of thing that was worrying me about my infections back at the beginning of summer.

Came down with a 101F fever on Tuesday morning after several highly stressful days, and I’m once again in the hospital with an attack of the leg cellulitis.    The docs are now trying a shotgun approach; a whole bunch of different bugkillers to try to kill the damn thing.   Words can’t express how unhappy I [...]