Superman

Posted by georgieporgie on July 19, 2008

Sorry for the delay in updates on Daddy-things have been kinda hectic.

Daddy’s surgery went very good-Dr Smith did not have to take as much of the quad muscle out as she first thought,which is great news!

Mercy Hospital is a wonderful hospital-the staff are out of this world fantastic. They took such good care of daddy and I think seeing happiness on the oncology floor was just what the staff needed. We are, as they say, “One BIG Happy Family”

Daddy was in rare form telling everyone about mangosteen,no I’m not kidding-there he is getting hooked up to the IV,wait let me back track, it actually started with admitting…we thought at one point he may actually try and write this lil hospital stint off as a business trip!

I had very strict orders, there were 3 things I could NOT forget

1)his briefcase that holds his mangosteen info-check

2)his bottle of “juice”-check

3)his redman golden blend chewing tobacco-check 

Daddy got to come home to our house Thursday and I will admit I was a bit nervous-all these “what ifs” kept popping up in my head, like, what if…he bends his knee and his incision splits open-will the ambulance get here in time to revive me? What if… I pass out at the site of his incision-will the ambulance get here in time to revive me? So you get the idea, ima big ol wimp!

Now here is where the “Superman”comes in to play…Daddy started out on a walker, after a few hours he was on crutches and I want to also note that he has not had one ounce of pain meds not even an aleve-now if I were in the hospital and had a lil push button device that would administer “good drugs” with a one finger push I would be flying with the birds, but not daddy! Yesterday we took a stroll down the street-gotta keep the circulation in those legs going…He is doing well with the leg immobilizer(LI) and the LI sure helps keep me at ease because he is NOT to bend that leg or God forbid the need for an ambulance for me-just call me “nervous ninny”.

Friday morning mr gp went to Okay to pick up ena-she so desperately wanted to help in some way,so I called her Thursday night and asked her if she wanted to come up and help me take care of daddy-well she jumped at the chance and she was a BIG help,she cut up taters for me to go with the beans and mexican cornbread,then she helped slice garden fresh cucumbers,tomatoes,onions and mozzarella cheese for our salad-I couldn’t have done it without her!

We had a home health nurse(Katie) out yesterday and she cleaned and re-dressed daddy’s wound-and my sister(you know, the faloozie) would be so proud of me cuz I even looked while the nurse did her thang,all-be-it through my fingers BUT I looked! He had no drainage an his stats were great!

We also had Justine the physical therapist(PT) out and he showed daddy some foot and leg exercises that he needs to do 3 x’s a day to help keep circulation going and to help with his quad muscle. The upper thigh exercises hurt but they are necessary for recovery.

He is getting REALLY bored with watching tv and movies so we have been playing dominoes(the beans really enjoy straight dominoes) and today when my sister gets here we hope to get a game of 42 going-have you ever played 42? Or is it a country thang? Well it’s fun and I remember when I was a young bean watching all the adults sit around the table playing 42…ahhh memories.

So my sister Laura Gayle came up to bring daddy’s mail-thats her in the front of the below pic

And daddy got lots and lots of cards in the mail-it was so cute watching him open up cards and go hmmm “I think I know a Pam… but I don’t know a Pam in Denver” then I let him in on the secret…he just giggled and giggled Then he said “how in the world am I gonna Thank all these people?” So from the bottom of our Hearts THANK YOU for the get well cards!

Here are a few pics from the past few days…

Daddy after surgery-notice the nutter butters-I knew I should have bought stock in those cookies-geesh and daddy says he dosn’t like peanut butter! pffft

Here’s Daddy in shorts-shhhh don’t tell him I put this on the internet or he will whoop me! and there is ena looking lovely as ever

Here is daddy a few minutes later-he sent my sis LG to the store to get him some new britches that have zip off legs-he is officially “city-fied!”

He feels more covered up now and thinks he may need a couple more pairs of these snazzy britches-what I see is NO Immobilizer! Hey why is that thing off your leg? Ya gotta watch daddy, he is sneaky!

So daddy goes to Arkansas on Monday,to stay with the faloozie,we have decided to still go on our summer vacation-it really wouldn’t be fair to the beans and believe me I was torn on this decision but daddy is superman and knowing him he will be trying to 2 step come Thursday-

Thursday daddy will go back to OKC for a follow up with Dr Smith-then we will start either chemo or radiation-we will know more about that and physical therapy on the 24th. The one thing I do know is, he is so ready to get back to his house!

My confession for today: My Daddy is “DUH BOOM!”