Wednesday, Oct 17....Mark's Update

I guess you take the good with the bad. Today is my anniversary with my wonderful "care giver". It has been 26 wonderful years and I could not be happier to be alive and semi-healthy. I was resting on the couch this morning and the phone started ringing. In my effort to get to it, I ripped the bandage off my back as the tubing was caught on something and would not give. Now I am without this suction today unless I go see Betty at work or wait until she gets home tonight.
On another side of life, I had four headaches last night. The weren't as severe as they were with the IV medicine, but they sure make a good nights sleep impossible to get. The first came about 10:15PM. Pills knocked it out in less than 1/2 an hour but the next one came just after midnight. #3 came about 2:30AM and the 4th one just before 5AM. The imitrex shots work well on these but I only have 1 shot left so I am trying to save it for one of those bad ones if possible. Insurance does not pay real well towards this shots, so it is $20 or so on each one. Gets to be expensive if I use too many of these! Doctor tells me I will be one these pills to fight can of infection for 3 years or more, depending on how long the titanium plate stays in my back. This could be a long 3 years.
Betty started looking at the bills the hospital has put together on my stay and says it is scary to see the total amounts. It's going to take time to get it all straighten out all of this. Only time will tell where we end up at on this.
Love to all my family and friends that mean so much to me.
Mark