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[HW3]

Sorry to hear of the latest setback, glad to hear she is improving again.

[Celeon999]

Terry has come so far, she will get over this too.

[doug.d]

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Hi, yes it's me, Terry. I'm still here on good old planet earth.

Going through a bad patch at the moment, but still appreciating everything I have here at home, including my longsuffering hubby. Thanks for standing by him while I was out of it and helping him stay sane for me until I got home. Although, I'm not always convinced of his sanity.

Life is so much richer now than before. The little things have become very precious such as sitting in my chair in the lounge, looking out into the garden, seeing the flowers and trees, watching the birds and watching out for hubby's car when it's time for him to come home from work. I wish he didn't have to go at all. Even being woken up at 3am and dragged outside to see the snow falling was very special. Life is a lot more tranquil.

One of the most important lessons I've learned through all of this, when the day-to-day things don't go right or aren't exactly as I wish them to be, is to say "So what!?"� and really mean it. I can recommend this to everyone.

I've read the thread and I thank you all so much for being there for us.

Best wishes to all.
Terry

[bunkerratt]

[Celeon999]

[Messervy]

You're welcome!

[HW3]

It is so good to hear from you Terry!

[Ant__.]

Good to hear from you Terry! Seeing as your on the PC, are we to presume you have Doug doing the household chores? Good on ya!

[tuddley3]

And as Terry mentions this, lets all remember to do just as she is. Stop and smell the roses every once and a while, and stop taking so much for granted, sometimes we all tend to forget to appreciate the small, but important things in life.

[doug.d]

This is not an update I wanted to make so soon, if ever. We fought the good fight against Terry's cold and the aftermath, took all the meds, did all we were supposed to, and lost.

She's been unable to eat or drink much for several days so we arranged an emergency consultation with her doctor at the hospital on Saterday morning and Terry was admitted immediately.

She's feeling generally better today but her kidney is teetering on the brink. Even if it recovers a lot, it may not be enough to avoid permanent dialysis. If it gets back close to it's functionality of 4 weeks ago, it will be a miracle.

I shall not tell her of the doctors opinion yet, I'm going to feed her positivity, talk a lot about the 3 most blissful months of our lives between rehab and her current decline and hope fervently for that miracle.

Just to make it a really fun weekend, my daughter's SO was also admitted on Saturday after breaking his ankle on some stairs. His plate and pins operation went fine but for some unknown reason, he developed complications and was rushed to ICU tonight in a serious state. All the doctors know is that something's gone terribly wrong with his lungs. I suspect a pre-existing condition aggravated by the anaesthetic.

So, after spending all weekend at Terry's side, I spent a several hours tonight at my daughter's side.

I don't know how much more of me there is to go around, I'll just have to dig deeper.