Meet Buster: My Big, Fat Tumor

I should be leaving the hospital later today. Believe it or not, it’s been 2 1/2 weeks since I was admitted this visit. So long… I have only been outside twice in that time, to take in the sun and fresh air.

Other than that, I’ve been taking walks down the halls each day to strengthen my legs and make sure my foot holds. I’m supposed to have a brace for my right foot today, since I have what they’re calling a “drop foot.” I don’t have full control over it and the foot just drops to a 30 degree angle instead of 90 degree. It makes it difficult to walk, and my physical therapist has been tying it up to help for now.

I’ll be continuing IV use from home. I haven’t tried that yet, but there’s a company that will come into my home to help with infusions of antibiotics. They are necessary to take for at least another week, for my urinary tract infection. I’m not totally sure, but I think my blood infection is cleared up. It was a serious issue for a while, but they pumped me full of so many antibiotics I don’t see how anything could have survived!

It will be good to be home. First, I’ll just enjoy being closer to Kasha. She won’t have to spend so much time going back and forth to the hospital. Second, my home just feels better, and I have access to my big TV, Wii games and DVD player.

I need to get to writing again. Or at least some research. I’ll be going through a lot of papers these next few weeks, trying to organize, and that should help me find a lot of the papers I’ve written in the past in support of my book, American Wayside.

I’ll let you all know how things are going at home in the next few days. Thanks for your continued thoughts and prayers. I do appreciate it!