This last month has almost pushed me to my limit. It started out with having the outpatient procedure to put in a suprapubic catheter. About 30 minutes into being in recovery I went sepsis, my fever spiked to 104, my heart rate doubled and my blood pressure dropped to 69 over 50.
The day after I got home we had to take my service dog to the vet and found out that he has cancer. Just to do the biopsy to find out if it's malignant or benign would cost us hundreds of dollars and then regardless of the outcome they would want to remove it and that would be thousands of dollars, neither of which is an option for us.
He's going to be 12 years old soon and so we made the choice to bring him home and just love him until it's time that we have to make the choice to let him go. Just the stress from those things would be enough on someone with MS but I'm dealing with a catheter that was put in that I've never heard of (a pigtail), that is shredding the inside of my bladder!
Last Wednesday I ended up back in the emergency room with another UTI, and once again I was in admitted to the hospital for antibiotics. If I all of that wasn't hard enough, my husband does not process stress in a healthy manner and so even though I know he's just as upset about what's going on as I am, his way to deal with it is to yell and cuss and basically everything to stress me out even more.
I would truly appreciate your prayers during this time! Not only is my husband my full-time caregiver, but he works full-time. He's usually gone from 8 in the morning till 7 or 8 at night but he also has to put in basically a full-time job before he goes to work and when he gets home being my caregiver.
The day after I got home we had to take my service dog to the vet and found out that he has cancer. Just to do the biopsy to find out if it's malignant or benign would cost us hundreds of dollars and then regardless of the outcome they would want to remove it and that would be thousands of dollars, neither of which is an option for us.
He's going to be 12 years old soon and so we made the choice to bring him home and just love him until it's time that we have to make the choice to let him go. Just the stress from those things would be enough on someone with MS but I'm dealing with a catheter that was put in that I've never heard of (a pigtail), that is shredding the inside of my bladder!
Last Wednesday I ended up back in the emergency room with another UTI, and once again I was in admitted to the hospital for antibiotics. If I all of that wasn't hard enough, my husband does not process stress in a healthy manner and so even though I know he's just as upset about what's going on as I am, his way to deal with it is to yell and cuss and basically everything to stress me out even more.
I would truly appreciate your prayers during this time! Not only is my husband my full-time caregiver, but he works full-time. He's usually gone from 8 in the morning till 7 or 8 at night but he also has to put in basically a full-time job before he goes to work and when he gets home being my caregiver.
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