illness

Wow, it has been a month since I have been on here.
Well, to start for two weeks I was sick. My throat swelled up really bad and I could not swallow for over a week. It was the worst pain I ever felt with my throat like that. I finally went to the doctor and she thought it might be strep, but that test came back negative. Then she tested me for mono and that test came back negative as well. She took blood from me to test some things that I have no idea what she was testing and those came back negative. They took a x-ray of my throat and found it was very swollen with little space to swallow and she wanted to put me in the hospital, but she ended up giving me two antibiotic shots in my hips and a steriod shot (for the swelling in throat) in my hip as well. She also sent me home with 3 bottles of liquid antibiotics to take. I was not getting better, and ended up at the doctors after that day to day for more steriod shots for my throat swelling. She kept saying maybe she should put me in the hospital, but she never did. I hate hospitals since my experience with my daughter Faith, so that was a relief. So anyways, I finally started feeling better and my doctor never did figure out what was wrong with me. My tonsils were swollen worse then they ever have been and they were really red, so maybe it was just a case of tonsilitis. Who knows! It was terrible though and I never want to have that again!

Now, my husband gets sick. He gets a really bad fever and his throat hurts and I think he is getting whatever it was that I had. Well, it ended up being something far worse. His leg started getting really red below his knee and it felt like it was on fire. He went to the doctor and it is a terrible infection in his leg that if not treated could result in amputation of his leg. He is a diabetic and he got this infection through a crack in his heel of his foot, it traveled up his leg and the doctor said if Tom would have waited a day or two more he would have been in the hospital in bad shape. His leg looks horrible! With him being diabetic he needs to take care of his feet. His feet are in bad shape as well. Any opening cut or crack in his feet can cause terrible infections the doctor said. He had this same infection ( I believe he called it celulitis ) when we came home from the hospital after Faith died, but it was in his hand. His hand swelled up bigger then I thought a hand could swell and it was really red and hot to the touch the same as his leg now. They treated his hand in the hospital and made a big deal out of it as well and said he could loose his hand. I never heard of these infections. So, he has to be very careful. The antibiotics are just now starting to work it seems. His leg is not hot to the touch now (which the doctor said is the infection that is hot feeling) and it is starting to look a little brown and not as red, but his leg still looks horrible. It has these red patches everywhere from his knee down and just terrible looking is the only way I can explain it. I pray he is on his way to getting better and it will heal completely. Please pray with me. I worry about his health so much to the point it makes me sick.

The past month we have been dealing with these sicknesses and hope it is behind us soon. The 4th of July holiday is this weekend and we hope to enjoy it. We wish you all a happy and safe holiday as well.

Love, Shellie