Here is the latest regarding my wife...

She will be recuperating for at least 6-8 weeks. During the first 10 days ( I had first misunderstood this to be 6 weeks) of her release, she must be at the hospital for Intravenous Infusion of Vancomyacin. She is there at 9am and 9PM...This is just the beginning....

We do wound care, meaning, cleaning and so forth, of the open/surgery sites, packing them and so on. This is a responsibility given to us but neither my wife nor I feel 100% about it in the sense that, we've never had to do anything like this before and we're not 100% sure we're doing it absolutely correct. If we do not, this will never stop happening....

On Friday when Jennie was being released from the hospital, my daughter calls to say she hears fighting, screaming, crashing, domestic abuse noise. I tell her to call the police and I call them as well to tell them it is my daughter who called....go check it out please...make sure SHE is alright because when she opened the door to see where the noise was coming from, the man turned to her and said, "What are you gonna do, call the cops?"

Then, last night at around 10:30, not 15 minutes after we left the Infusion services department and arrived at home, the police show up saying there was a call for "domestic disturbance" in my home. Once they took a look at my, our home, what was happening here, they KNEW there was no such disturbance and that our neighbors are harassing us by using the police. They left here apologizing and satisfied the call was a hoax.

This same person/neighbor called my landlord, posed as a cop and told her I was being investigated for "harassment" against these same neighbors. When I called the police and asked to come talk to someone about it, they had NO RECORD of ANY such investigation and they KNOW if one was to be leveled against me by this person, they'd never believe it anyhow.....In fact, the lead officer for the particular "team" that was on duty that night said, "No one from our office called nor would we have told anyone about an investigation." I was more than assured by the CO on duty, no such investigation concerning me is happening on his or any other shift.

Finally, it turns out the younger brother of this neighbor once tried to call Leah "his b*tch in this town." I confronted him myself and said I was his "b" now and he could certainly try to treat me as such but doing so would not be in his best interest that, and if he was to come near my daughter again, he'd become someone else's "b" in the county jail....
(I had not yet made t'shuvah at this time...this was in 2003)

I don't think this guy knows I'm the father of Leah or that I'm the person who told him to stay away from her. Drugs, theft, burglary...these are family traits, sadly. We are POSITIVE methamphetamine is being used and sold out of the apartment as well....these are dangerous people...

I wanted to do last night was get my wife into a hotel room rather than be at home so she could get peace, sleep, etc but there was no way we could do that so, we both got about 3 hours sleep. Our landlord said to call her in case of any emergencies...I've tried since a while after havdalah last night to 9pm this evening...I have not heard from her...

All of this is making it next to impossible for my wife to heal. When my wife and I arrived at the Infusion site, a blood test was taken and we were told they're having to INCREASE the Vancomyacin because it isn't working....there's not enough of it in her blood and thus, all of the stress, all of everything that is happening is making things just insane for all of us.

When my wife was in recovery, the surgeon came to the room and told me that had I not rushed my wife to the Urgent Care and eventually the hospital, she could very well have died because of the infection entering the bloodstream, which is toxic....fatal. I did not know how to begin to tell her this but I knew I had to. She had a look in her eyes I will never forget...

We have both truly learned how much we love each other...and how much we've always, from the beginning and how it's grown and matured, love each other. Experiencing this has been brutal to say the least....

I will tell you this....the ONLY reason I haven't completely lost my mind is because I completely trust that HaShem will also see how we love one another and how we always have...he will heal her and she will never have to deal with this horrid monster again.

I have learned what it feels like to come within hours of losing my wife however, my wife has learned what it means to come so close to death...This changes a person...

Please, please pray for us.
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.
Charles Dickens