Thanks to everyone who has been checking in on Diana to hear about her progress - there are so many people who love and care about her, which is such a wonderful thing. She often says how lucky she is in all of her friends and family, whom she cherishes.
We've decided to create this blog so that her many friends and colleagues can check on her progress and see how she's doing.
Late last week she was taken to the emergency room after battling what she had been told was the flu and a small infection for about a week. What her doctors discovered upon running some tests was that she had a perforated stomach ulcer and a resultant infection. They did surgery to repair the perforation and tried to deal with the infection non-surgically. The repair to the ulcer went well and her progress in healing from that is good. However, the infection did not resolve with medications alone.
Yesterday evening her doctors decided to address the infection surgically. The surgery went well, but because the infection was advanced the wound from the surgery is sizable. Since her system has already been compromised with the perforation, the previous surgery and the infection, her doctors have chosen to keep her sedated and on a ventilator until she is more stable and the surgical site is healing well and not apt to give her so much pain.
Though it can be a scary thought to have her on a ventilator, this is often the way treating physicians choose to deal with a serious infection - by giving the body the best possible chance to rest and heal, and provide as much oxygen as possible to promote the healing process. She is definitely in critical condition, but doing as well as can be expected.
We will update this blog as often as we can, and let you know Diana's progress. We all know that she is an incredibly strong woman with a joy in life that few can match, and these are things that will help her a great deal as she recovers. In the mean time, your love, thoughts and prayers are all so very important and appreciated.
We'll keep you posted, so check back whenever you like.
4 comments:
Diana:
My prayers and healing thoughts are with you. Get well!!! We need your energy, love, and tremendous contributions.
Hugs,
Michael
Dearest Diana and Mandie,
What an awful thing to have to go through. Our prayers, thoughts, and love are with you. Is there anything I can do to help - come up there to help relieve you, send food, books, anything? What hospital are you at? You are both loved much.
Lisa, Homer, Hunter and Grace
HI DIANA AND MANDIE
WELL!!!! AREN'T YOU THE ONE JUST BECASUE I HAD A LITTLE HEART DIPPY-DO YOU HAD TO DO ME ONE BETTER!!! WE JUST HEARD ABOUT IT FROM LESLIE AND SORRY WE COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN SOONER AND WE COULD HAVE COME AND HARRASSED YOU SOME. I'M SURE IT HAD TO BE A HOLDOVER FROM THAT POISON SOUP FROM THANKSGIVING.
SEEMS TO ME I REMEMBER DARREL HAD A SIMILAR EPISODE IN COTTAGE GROVE. SEEMS LIKE HE JUST ABOUT DIDN'T MAKE IT. SOME GUY HE WAS RIDING WITH GOT HIM TO A HOSPITAL JUST IN TIME. SHOULDN'T TRY TO OUT DO YOUR DAD!!!
WE ARE ALL HANGING IN THERE WITH THOUGHTS A PRAYERS FOR YOU. I'M SURE YOU AND MANDIE HAVE EVERYTHING WELL IN HAND BUT IF THERE IS ANYTHING WE CAN DO WE CAN ZIP UP THERE AND LEND A HAND WHERE EVER JUST LET US KNOW.
HEAL QUICK AND MANDI WHEN YOU HAVE IF EVER A FREE MOMENT A UP DATE WILL BE APPRECIATED., WE FOLLOW THE BLOG (LISTEN TO COMPUTOR DON SOUNDS LIKE HE KNOWS WHAT A BLOG IS)EVERY MORNING. SO PLEASE KEEP US IN THE LOOP. LOVE TO ALL DON AND JUDY
Diana;
Sorry to hear of your "Ordeal." However, it is a beautiful day on the coast; God is smiling down on you! Keep fighting the good fight of faith. My thoughts and prayers are with you, always.
All the best,
Grant L. Snyder
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