Not yet anyway. I don't think there is much point. I can find places for the kids but it may be they operate and just ship her right back. Won't know that for a bit. As it is, all her immediate family are in the Vancouver area and ready to help out as needed.
Surgery done late last night. Turned out to be discitis which was developing an abscess. Its been cleaned up and a round of powerful antibiotics. It seems the excruciating pain has diminished but probably need to wait a bit to get a better sense.
Excellent. Nothing like an abscess to jack the pain rate out the roof. So glad she is feeling better. And that Teddy is feeling better!
Its going to be several weeks of antibiotics apparently. I don't know what that means for a timeline for her to get back. Our regular carrier, Air Canada, has stopped all flights up here, so maybe they can fly her back on the air ambulance.
Wow! Great to see some resolution and hope. Praying for a successful course for the antibiotics and a safe return home.
Well, not so fast. The pain suddenly ramped up again. They are still waiting for infectious disease specialists to determine what the agent is. Then they can tailor the antibiotics for that. She was in a pretty bad spot a couple hours ago. It's hard to advocate for someone when you are 700 km away and even if I was closer, I could not get in the hospital. Our family doctor talked with her and gave her advice on what to ask and say. I tried to get a message through to the surgeon. He seems pretty good at handling his patients.
Very sorry! I also will be keeping this as priority 1. Praying also that pandemic issues will not interfere with your wife's progress or your family's care. My work is very conducive to prayer - I will be watching in hope.
Yeah. I started reading Frank Peretti's "Piercing the Darkness" again last night for the first time in 30 years. I'm not one to "over Perretti-ize things" and see a demon behind every bush, and I certainly don't take Peretti as Gospel (and he never made that claim!), but sometimes I sorely need to remember that "we wrestle not against flesh and blood..." Praying for you all, my friends.
Had my first COVIC-19 client call today related to employee matters. Client is a church and the pastor is telling the music director that she is "an essential employee" and has to show up on Sunday morning with the worship team to back up his live-stream to an empty auditorium. He doesn't know that she has an underlying medical condition that makes her particularly vulnerable. Here we go...
Today our wonderful state governor imposed a state-wide stay at home order. The rules are so vague as to be almost worthless but what I can conclude is that I can't buy a new pair of shoes from my local, quiet, shoe store. But apparently I can crowd into Wally world with everyone else and buy a pair of shoes from there. And despite all businesses arbitrarily deemed "not life sustaining" ordered to close the number of trucks passing our house hasn't reduced. On our walk this afternoon (going out for exercise is allowed, apparently without limit) we saw a lawn care company spreading soil on someone's yard. I'm not sure how that's life sustaining but any sense of consistency seems to have long since been abandoned.
I find it almost ironic that a majority of sci-fy movie, book and series themes over the last decade or two are based on killer pandemics, almost all on an apocalyptic scale. I was hit with polio in 1957 at the tail-end of a pandemic and six weeks after the vaccine came out. The ball was dropped in my case, and the virus was highly contagious. My doctor was one of those who (famously) thought polio was merely a "survival of the fittest" function of evolution, weeding out the weak members of the race, even though it did not kill all of us but left us maimed for life - the gift that keeps on giving. Seems like fiction often portends reality.
Interestingly it appears under the stay at home order you are allowed to care for a pet in another household. I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me that if, say, I were to feel the need to go and care for my friend's dog I'd be covered to do that. If he and I were to happen to, oh, maybe have a beer or two together while I was caring for his dog that doesn't seem to violate anything. Just what is required to count as "caring" for a pet in another household appears vague so perhaps petting him for a bit and throwing him a treat or two would count. In the most recent encouraging statistics I saw it was suggested that for every confirmed case of this virus 100 people will have lost their jobs. So based on a 1% mortality rate it suggests that for every person who dies from the virus 10,000 people will lose their jobs in an attempt to fight it. Certainly every death from any cause is a tragic loss for those who loved the deceased but I'm really struggling not to think the response is going to do more damage than the virus ever could.