Surprise!

Imagine my surprise last Thursday!  My day was planned, Swede was on his way down for a visit, I was gently puttering around getting ready ... and I sat down to have a morning cup of tea.  As I sat there I smelled something odd, something that triggered a faint memory ...

I worked Rocky Mountain Rescue for many years, so seen it all, done it all (except deliver a baby on a mountainside!) and that was where that memory came from: gangrene.

Now yes, I have a foot in a cast, but it had just been cleaned so what on Earth could be going on?!?!?  I removed the cast, opened up all of the gauze packing and it was not pretty but it was not a piece of rotting meat either .....  So I started poking gently around the pin holes and screw holes from the appliance the leg had been in.  A black viscous goo started oozing out.  Oh #$%!@, goodbye foot!

Swede arrives, I have my foot repacked and we head to the emergency room at the surgical hospital which had done all of the work on the foot.  And thus ends my life for a week!

Hospitalized, in an alarmed bed so I can not escape (an earlier post from April I think I told about pulling my IV and walking out, I was having so many problems with the NAZI nursing staff!) and they dumped 28 doses of antibiotics in the first 24 hours!  And in a week of this intensive dumping drugs through me, my foot has almost returned to normal in size and appearance!  Never thought that would happen!  But, also, the staph infection which had taken hold in my foot was throughout my body ... sigh ...  So 10 more weeks of IV antibiotics.

Yup, God keeps pointing me to the end of September before any possibility of my life returning to normal could happen.   Sigh ...

And I am less and less impressed with Him not being done with me yet ...  Life can be mighty challenging when faced with 110% negative and little hope it will change, ever.

So lots of prayer needed - still trying to keep my leg, trying to kill the staph infection raging throughout my body - and then - there is all of the regular stuff.  Man, my life is a mess!