January Happenings

Every month I find pictures that pretty much stand-a-lone and don't warrant a blog post of their own, so I'll try to combine them into one post at the end of each month.

This is what I look at every evening while watching TV.  He loves his "daddy".

I've never had a caricature done of me, but last night at the Fellowship Club Potluck, I had a chance to get one done for free.   The "real" me is in my profile picture.

Kyleigh is now a Cadette Girl Scout and if you're a Girl Scout, this time of year is Girl Scout Cookie time.  Kyleigh has been selling since the 26th. She has sold over 100 boxes so far and booth sales haven't even started yet.  I took her to the Ronald McDonald House on Monday and David and I took her to one of our favorite restaurants today. Over the weekend, she sold seven boxes to her aunt, Amber.

BTW, she no longer has to wear her glasses except for reading or when she needs to focus and I just realized that she's as tall as her aunt.

New Glasses

Kyleigh's frames were about ready to fall apart so, since she'd bought the Protection Plan, Janice decided to get her a new pair.  Kyleigh immediately found a pair of Elsa glasses that fortunately cost the same as her old ones. Since the frames were different, she also needed to get new lenses, which she needed anyway because the old ones were scratched.

This first picture I took to show Kyleigh why they had her put on the funny glasses. (Sorry it's crooked.)

Update on David
We went back to the doctor last week and he is on another cycle of antibiotics and is wearing a double compression stocking.  He seems to be doing much better now, but will have another checkup in September.

WIWO - 7/20/2015

I'm continuing to work on the Merry Kittens ornaments and have started the last one. 

I'm really enjoying these and can't imagine why it's taken so long to start stitching them again.

Update on David
David continues to improve and we've gotten into a routine with the antibiotic infusions.  He still spends a lot of time resting with his leg up, but we saw our regular doctor this morning and he seemed quite pleased with the progress.  And of course since his leg looked like it was sunburned, it's also acting like it was sunburned and is peeling like crazy.

Happy Dance - Merry Kitten #5

Original Start Date: Unknown 

Current Start Date: 7/12/2015

Finished: 7/16/2015

Dimensions Kit: Merry Kitten Ornaments

The kit is dated 1997 and I think I probably started it sometime around then.  There are six kittens included in this kit and I'd finished four of them (and started this one) before setting it aside.  

It's stitched on 14-count white plastic canvas with the floss included in the kit.

Update on David

We went to the Infectious Disease doctor yesterday and today I picked up another week's worth of intravenous antibiotics.  The infection is almost gone, but they want to be sure.

He goes back to work tomorrow for the first time since he entered the hospital though. 

He's Home

David came home tonight about 8:00 p.m. with a picc line and a box full of syringes with saline solution and or antibiotics.  We will have to administer these three times a day (10:00 a.m., 2:00 pm. and 6:00 a.m.) for probably two weeks.

The first thing he did once we got home was take a shower.  He's also looking forward to drinking coffee again.

A setback

About 7:30 last night, David's leg started to swell and cause him pain.  It also turned a very angry red.  The nurses helped him to elevate it which helped until he needed to put weight on it.

This morning he called me about 8:30 a.m. and said they were moving to another room, this time in a ward with slightly less monitoring.  The doctor came and said he needed to change the antibiotic again and also had them do an ultrasound to make sure there was no clotting.  He also had a Infectious Disease doctor come and take a look to determine which antibiotics should be used.

They discontinued both of the antibiotics he was on and started him on a new one.  He was told to keep his leg elevated and that he wouldn't be able to go home until Thursday at the earliest, probably with a picc line.

The only good thing about all this is that he doesn't work again until Friday, July 17th so he has time to recover.

WIWO - 7/6/2015

I took a one day break from the Anniversary Angel and started a little Mill Hill ornament that accompanied the additional beads I needed to finish the Winged Monarch.

This is from the 2015 Winter Holiday Collection from Mill Hill and I fell in love with it immediately.  Unfortunately, everything except for the long line of brown x's (except the ribbon) needs to be frogged since I used the wrong color of floss.  As you can see, it looks lighter than the section below.

Update on David
The doctor wants to keep him an extra day so he'll go home tomorrow.  He actually has two infections: one in his urinary tract and one caused by the scrape on the back of his leg.  They've changed one of the antibiotics to one that will treat the urinary tract infection specifically and told him to spend some time walking around the ward.  I'm really looking forward to having him home again.

Happy Dance - Blue Butterfly

Started: 6/12/2015

Finished: 7/5/2015

Cross Stitch Card Shop #100

Stitched on 14-count white Aida with the called for DMC floss except that the bow was supposed to be stitched in two colors of red, but I didn't realize it until I was half done with the wings.  

This was charted for a Mother's Day card and included the words "Happy Mother's Day" which I left off for obvious reasons, since this is a square for Kyleigh's quilt.

Update on David

David is feeling better today and is almost back to his normal self except for the infection and will possibly come home tomorrow.  He is missing his coffee and sodium since he's on a no caffeine and low sodium diet.

The 4th of July

Lots of fireworks today.  Although we live in Anaheim where fireworks are prohibited, Garden Grove, which is one street over, does permit and sells fireworks.  So there were a lot of fireworks going off on the streets surrounding our house.

I saw our neighbor out this morning and asked him to keep an eye on our house since I wouldn't be home until late (the fireworks are still going off now) and went to the hospital.

David is feeling/doing a little better and was moved from the DOU to a room in the medical/surgical unit. 

I spent the day with him and Janice and Devin brought a late lunch and then went to one of the many fireworks venues in the area.

A rough day

We were supposed to go see Inside Out with Kyleigh, Janice and Devin this morning.  Instead we spent the day at the doctors and in the emergency room.  David was pretty much out of it most of the day.

David had a major fever last night and couldn't get warm.  He was also kind of woozy and asked me to make him a doctor's appointment.  I did and we got to the doctor's at 9:40.  As we waited for the elevator, the fire department paramedics commandeered it to take a stretcher upstairs.  We saw the doctor and went down to the lab for blood and urine tests and a chest x-ray. 

When we got back to the doctor's office about 12:30, she told us that David was septic and needed to go the ER.  I thought I would just drive him to the hospital, but she decided to send him in an ambulance--the same crew that had been there earlier and they recognized us also.

At the ER they discovered he was very dehydrated, his blood pressure was low and his lower left leg was red and swollen.  They took more blood and gave him intervaneous fluids and antibiotics.  At about 8:30 they moved him to the DOU which is one step down from the ICU and planned to keep him for a couple of days.