Tomorrow (Saturday), Nick will be transferred via an ambulance to a rehabilitaion facility. At the rehab center, Nick will begin to learn how to live life as an amputee. This is important because won’t be getting his prothesis until the end of the year. For now, he will be using a wheelchair [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Nick had his surgery. He now has a below the knee amputation on the left side. After the surgery, the doctor came out and told me that everything went fine and that Nick had definitely made the right decision to amputate. His left foot and ankle were no longer viable. When [...]
Nick has made the very difficult decision to go ahead with the amputation. On Monday, October 27, Nick will have a below the knee amputation on the left side. He has made peace with his decision because he knows that medically, and for the quality of his life, it is the right decision [...]
I have some unfortunate news on Nick’s condition. We took Nick to the Dr. on Monday to have the surgical dressing removed from his ankle. We found that the entire ankle and foot was grossly infected. They admitted Nick to the hospital that night and the next day, (yesterday) they took Nick [...]
Nick came home from the hospital late Friday evening. On Saturday, he began to vomit again, but instead of returning him to the hospital, we decided to wait it out and see of it would stop on its own. Eventually it did. This morning Nick fainted twice because of all the fluid [...]
On Sunday, I had to return Nick to the hospital. He had only been home for a few hours from his previous hospital stay when he became very ill and I had to take him back. Right how Nick is unable to swallow anything without immediately vomiting. He also has pain in [...]
Nick was released from the hospital on Sunday, October 6th. His ankle surgery went fine and we thought that all would go well. As it turns out I had to return Nick to the emergency room within a few hours of bringing him home. Right after we got home, his blood sugar [...]
On September 30th, Nick fell on a piece of ice in our kitchen and fell hard. We were told in the emergency room that Nick had broken his tibia and fibula right as they join the ankle. Yesterday he had surgery on the ankle to correct the damage; they found that both broken [...]
