Need help Paying Bills Due to Medical Emergency
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My Husband, My best friend who means the whole world to me is in the hospital. He is my life, and my world. I love him so much I am having a very hard time with all this. I am terrified I will loose him. He is my main concern. His health and him healing. And here he is worried about me all the while fighting to keep his full leg. He is always thinking of what this is doing to me. Not how hard this is on him.
He blames himself because he can not go back to work. I do not blame him. My gosh he is a wonderful man who love me no matter what.
He would help anyone he can as we both did. Now he has a hard time because he feels he is failing me. I try as hard as I can to be strong for him and sometimes I fail. I cry a lot when he does not know. I have been selling anything I can sell that we have to keep us going. Family has helped with what they could. So have some very good friends. I appreciate them more then they know. They can not keep it up. This has devastated us mentally, physically and financially. We both have a hard time asking for help. I just know I want him to be able to heal and not worry about if the electric will be shut off. I do not want him to be so worried. I know how bad things are for many. So I have to ask for help. He has a very long road to recovery ahead of him. from what I am told it could be a year or more. It hurts to see my strong husband not being able to even walk without help He tries to hide things from me and be strong for me. I can see it .I cry. I love him so darn much. I want him home and healthy. I feel his pain. His Doctor told me he is in a horrible amount of pain. Hubby told me he was on good drugs. I think so I would not be upset. He is on pain meds but even I know it does not take it all away. I will keep updating on his condition as I find out any changes. I just know I need my husband with or without his leg. I love him.
On Nov 12th, 2021 my husband scrapped his leg on our trailer while checking it on his way to load. He is a heavy haul driver who hauls the wind towers' middle section, leading to an infection in his leg. In Dec and Jan he was treated for more infections. Total of four.
They also had cleaned this wound and wrapped it in an ace bandage in an ace bandage. Ten days later, when this was taken off, they found that he was allergic to the ace bandage. This had caused the heal and back of his foot partway up his leg to have sores on it. There were also sores on his toes and the top of his foot.
He blames himself because he can not go back to work. I do not blame him. My gosh he is a wonderful man who love me no matter what.
He would help anyone he can as we both did. Now he has a hard time because he feels he is failing me. I try as hard as I can to be strong for him and sometimes I fail. I cry a lot when he does not know. I have been selling anything I can sell that we have to keep us going. Family has helped with what they could. So have some very good friends. I appreciate them more then they know. They can not keep it up. This has devastated us mentally, physically and financially. We both have a hard time asking for help. I just know I want him to be able to heal and not worry about if the electric will be shut off. I do not want him to be so worried. I know how bad things are for many. So I have to ask for help. He has a very long road to recovery ahead of him. from what I am told it could be a year or more. It hurts to see my strong husband not being able to even walk without help He tries to hide things from me and be strong for me. I can see it .I cry. I love him so darn much. I want him home and healthy. I feel his pain. His Doctor told me he is in a horrible amount of pain. Hubby told me he was on good drugs. I think so I would not be upset. He is on pain meds but even I know it does not take it all away. I will keep updating on his condition as I find out any changes. I just know I need my husband with or without his leg. I love him.
On Nov 12th, 2021 my husband scrapped his leg on our trailer while checking it on his way to load. He is a heavy haul driver who hauls the wind towers' middle section, leading to an infection in his leg. In Dec and Jan he was treated for more infections. Total of four.
They also had cleaned this wound and wrapped it in an ace bandage in an ace bandage. Ten days later, when this was taken off, they found that he was allergic to the ace bandage. This had caused the heal and back of his foot partway up his leg to have sores on it. There were also sores on his toes and the top of his foot.
In Jan the Doctor needed to clean this wound out it was huge by then. They did surgery to remove all the dead so that it could heal. They did a second surgery to clean it out again two weeks later. He was being seen 2 - 3 times a week at the wound center so they could clean it. Two more infections set in. More antibiotics.
They did more tests on him to determine why he was not healing. CT scan, then an MRI with contrast. Found blockages in his femoral artery and vein in the right leg. His heart and Lungs were great.
My husband is 6'3'' and was 270 - 280 before this started. He now weighs 194, which is a good thing and better on his knees.
He is currently in the hospital in Tulsa, and he will be there for at least another week or more.
I am home in Illinois. Can not go to him we do not have the money for that.
They found two more infections, and they went in to fix the vein and artery on the 12th. Today, they are cleaning the sores on his foot and heel, and he has exposed tendons on the heel. Tomorrow an Upper GI. In the last two days, he was given two units of blood.
Our families and some friends have helped us as much as they could. He could be off work for several more months, and we need help paying our bills. So far, medical has been covered other than a few things.
Please, if anything, pray for him. There is power in prayer, and I want him to heal.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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Kathy Wright
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Alma, IL