I'm Back!!

My husband has returned home and we are trying to get back into the swing of things with work and such.

Yes, he spent almost three months in the (truly) wonderful Palo Alto VA Hospital being treated for abscesses. They finally surgically removed the 39 year old bullet that was causing the problems about three weeks ago...and viola! Here we are back among the living! It wasn't all that easy: I almost lost him to sepsis twice in the process, and he still has lingering effects and some stitches that will come out next week.

Going to the VA every day was like living in a parallel universe. We made dear friends with a lot of people there:

There was dear Pat, whose husband Robert was dying of cancer on 4A (the hospice) - She brought in her dogs to see Robert every weekend. Robert passed away last week, may he rest in peace; Mervin, who has lived more than a year beyond his death prediction in the hospice...He has abdominal cancer and is often in great pain, but always ready to help anyone who needs it; Alexander, who has had a toe amputated due to diabetes and was in to treat a sore on the bottom of his foot. Alexander went home the same day we did, and emails often. Then there were Joe and his wife: Joe was admitted looking as though he was nine months pregnant with a bowel obstruction. He had surgery to open things up and went home after recuperating, but still came back to see us now and then...and many others.

After all that communing with life and death, I am taking my time and easing back into the world of the healthy and living.

Glad to be back,

Peggy