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After ICU the next few days is the hospital were pretty uneventful. Lot's of pain for Steve, no sleeping and anxiety to boot.  And finally, the anticipated discharge day.  Not sure...

It may seem silly to some to even mention a cup of coffee, but after the punishment that Steve's been through over the past week, a cup of coffee is a treat and a sign of some norm...

This late night surgery routine is getting more than tiresome.  I can't even imagine the surgeon, but I've been assured that this is how they train them.  More on our day in ICU an...

So I decided that if I was going to share the horrific events after Steve's second surgery from the anesthesia, that I should also share the wonderful effects it can have as well. ...

After the second surgery's horrible anesthesia experience and bad news concerned doesn't even begin to describe how I'm feeling knowing that at some point today he'll be going in f...

So last nights surgery was not only unsuccessful, but there were complications with anesthesia.  They attempted to give him twilight anesthesia - which is an anesthetic technique w...

On October 5, 2016 at 8:19 PM Steve was taken into the operating room for his second surgery.  The story continues to unfold through my actual text messages: Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2016...

Surgery #1 was successful in all they were able to accomplish, however, since the clots were actually "old" the TPA medicine doesn't typically work on an old clotting.  What is old...

On Tuesday, 10/4/2016 around 2:15 PM Steve headed into his first surgery. There was a lot to be done with this first surgery.  They put a stent graft over the dangling clot in the ...

On Monday, 10/3 Steve called his PCP back again about getting the MRI scheduled.  The PCP was highly concerned about how much pain he was still in and suggested that he go back to ...

The following day, now Tuesday (9/27/16), the pain was so bad that unannounced Steve decided to go back to the nephrologist to let him know his fluid intake and yet how much worse ...

At some point during the night after the first ER visit, Steve lost 6lbs and his right leg was back to "normal" size.  The next day he had a regularly scheduled appointment with th...

Saturday (9/24/16), Steve had complained about his right calf.  He said it was super tight and felt like it could seize at any moment.  By Sunday that feeling had transferred from ...

Steve was able to get in for a kidney biopsy on Tuesday, September 13, 2016.  All went normal and according to plan.  A little nausea and killer headache from the anesthesia, but n...

Steve went to a nephrologist (kidney specialist) on Monday, September 12th.  He, of course, had blood work and another urinalysis which again showed very high levels of protein.  T...

The primary care doctor had prescribed 20mg of Lasix - this was to start to eliminate the ridiculous water weight Steve had put on.  He was told he would start peeing like crazy an...

Steve was able to get in with our primary care doctor on Tuesday, 9/6/16.  They did blood work, a urinalysis, and gave him an EKG.  They thought that his upper valves were working ...

This blog entry is the beginning of the story to why I have a section for amputee(s) on my website - what eventually lead to my husband having an amputation.  It's the beginning to...