Great to be Home

It is wonderful to be home! Things are getting back to "normal" or at least as close as can be expected at this time. Lori has to spend much of her time in the recliner with her leg elevated. Patience is proving to be her biggest virtue right now! A home nurse comes every other day to change bandages and physical therapy is twice a week at this time. Bandage changes are pretty gruesome, not painful, but the wound is pretty grotesque at this time - doesn't even look human, but it's amazing what medical procedures can be done. We never would have dreamt a silly leg break would be so involved with 18 days in the hospital and so many surgeries! Now we're just focusing on healing. 6-8 weeks of non weight bearing, and doctors say 6 months and she'll be back to "normal" function. Right now a typical day includes sitting on the recliner...keeping leg elevated...dangling leg...sitting on the recliner...going to the bathrooom...sitting on the recliner...dangling leg...sitting on the recliner. Not too exciting, but doctor's orders!

Going Home Friday! Yippee!

Great news! Looks like Lori will be able to go home on Friday. Long recovery ahead - no weight bearing for 6-8 weeks but after physical therapy the doctors say full recovery in about 6 months. Lori misses the kids terribly and is very anxious to get home!

Moving Out of ICU Today

After 7 surgeries and a few days in ICU it looks like Lori will be moved today. The break of her leg was very severe. It involved breaking both bones in the lower leg. Because the break was also compound the doctors had to perform a muscle and skin graft to repair the skin around the break. Unfortunately the day after that graft surgery the graft started being rejected and blood flow was compromised so Lori was rushed back into surgery to make repairs and salvage the graft on Sunday. After close monitoring it looks like the graft is taking and today she will be moved out of ICU and will begin "leg dangling" beginning the recovery process. No word on when she'll be able to go home but excited we're making steps in the right direction.