We did get some good news today...As a result of this illness, she will have 6-8 weeks of recuperation but, she is going to be absolutely able to collect unemployment....albiet, it's nowhere close to what she was earning but, thank you G-d for opening this door....

As I said in a previous post, I am only coming to post here, when I have time. I have the same thread elsewhere and so, only when I have time to spend online, am I doing so....

The one thing about fighting an infection this intense and as the doctor who first sent my wife to the hospital said to her today during a visit to begin a cessation of smoking program, "you've overcome a near-death experience....this infection and the fight your body is having, will tire you. When mixed with the pain medicine and other factors, you will feel exhausted at times."

Because this is indeed, true and happening, she is doing one of the following things at a time...walking down our stairway to get to the car, driving to our destination and then, walking to where ever it is we need to be. During this time, if she feels tired from walking from the car to infusion rooms or vice versa, we stop and take a breather....

Her fall and subsequent dislocated pinky and bone chipping off as a result, have caused more pain for her but other than that, she is slowly getting better. The next trough (blood test) is Thursday, I think...we'll know then if they need to increase or decrease the Vancomyacin Infusions...

Getting back to the cessation of smoking program...I have been begging my wife on and off for years to stop smoking...She has been doing it long before she ever met me and it is something she has tried to quit twice before, once for a year straight, no smokes....

This entire event has put a very real picture of our mortality in her reality....this is something we either already have gone through, such as myself, or those who have not. This is what I mean when I say, this was a life changing event....For my wife to actually want to stop smoking for once and for all, is truly a blessing and a gift that I have begged for, prayed for, and now, albeit, due to this horrible disease, happening.

Thank you all, again, for you continued prayer.
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.
Charles Dickens