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Originally Posted by euromodder
Jeez Fordman !
Your family is sure going through rough times lately. 
Hang in there, and wish your wife a speedy recovery.
How's your brother doing btw ? |
Yeah, seems like things have been on the downside for our family since 1/2010 when my dad was hospitalized and diagnosed with congestive heart failure and they told us his heart was only functioning at 25%. My dad passed away on 6/13/10 of a heart attack at my home, my brother hit the cow 4/16/11 and spent 2 weeks in the trauma unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, then 1 week in rehab at Vanderbilt, then just as my brother got home my mom had the shingles, in early May my wife had surgery for endometriosis and was still out of work when our 24 year old son passed away on 5/16/11 of a massive heart attack, then my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer on I think 7/22/11 and just went through her second surgery for this in the past 2 weeks. Things are going to get better now though, the cancer has been removed, one of my other brothers is going to come into KY from VA this weekend and we are giving mom a well deserved surprise 80th birthday party. When they performed the first surgery they tested the tissue they removed and said the entire right breast was full of cancer cells, but said they weren't active and that it was caught early, so they recommended the breast be removed before the cells became active. The surgery today went fine, it lasted about 45 minutes, she spent about an hour in recovery then went to her hospital room and was very alert and seemed to be feeling really good when I left there late this afternoon. Since I have chronic back pain my son said he'd stay with her tonight so I could come home and get some rest. He called about 2 hours ago and said she was doing fine, but her pain had increased since I left. He said the nurses at the hospital where she works told her that the day following the surgery was usually the worst so hopefully after tomorrow she'll start a full recovery.
I hadn't updated my brother's condition lately, but everything is going great for him with the exception of one of his lower eyelids is turned in toward his eyeball and when the eyelashes grow out it irritates his eye and they have to be plucked out, but they are going to do a procedure to correct this on 8/19/11 that they say will take about 45 minutes and will get to come home the same day after recovery. He went back to part time work within a few weeks of getting out of the hospital and has been back full time now for probably about 1 1/2-2 months. He was coming over to the hospital to see my wife this afternoon, but my back was bothering me so bad I left before he got there.
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