{"id":3223,"date":"2016-06-28T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:47:31","slug":"3223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3223","title":{"rendered":"More earth rattling times"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a crazy 2 weeks it has been!<\/p>\n

DH Bob became quite ill so DS Jacob decided to come in a little early for Father’s Day to see his dad.\u00a0 We debated whether to take him to the hospital immediately but kept hoping he would improve on his own.\u00a0 He did not.<\/p>\n

By Sunday, he was still extremely ill and after talking to the doctors at MD Anderson Emergency Department, I packed his things and dressed him.\u00a0 Jake loaded him into the car and they were on their way.\u00a0 I frankly wasn’t certain Bob would survive the trip.<\/p>\n

He was admitted immediately but had to wait for an available room.\u00a0 After evaluation, he was transferred to ICU.\u00a0 He was diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia, calcium overload, limited kidney function, and the list goes on and on.\u00a0 He was put on a ventilator and dialysis.\u00a0 Because he was extremely uncomfortable and kept pulling at his breathing tube, the doctors put him into a coma.\u00a0 He has remained knocked out and unaware for a week.\u00a0 Jacob has spent most of his time with Bob or driving back and forth (3 hours each way in infamous Houston traffic) to Grapeland for showers and home cooked meals.\u00a0 Vending machine and fast food get old quick.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’ve stayed home keeping \"SAMSUNG<\/a> our business afloat, harvesting the garden, canning 21 quarts of tomatoes, tending the critters and generally keeping busy.\u00a0 I went with Jacob for a hospital visit and plan to return this week.\u00a0 Though I hate all the traffic and noise of Houston, I was impressed with MD Anderson’s HUGE campus and how the doctors and nurses are never too rushed to talk to family, respectfully explaining diagnoses, prognoses and the steps of his care.\u00a0 I have absolutely no doubt Bob is getting the very best, most compassionate care possible.<\/p>\n

As of yesterday, Bob has improved enough the doctors are lessening his coma and expect to remove the breathing tube in the next day or two.\u00a0 They are taking it extremely slowly as to not shock his system.\u00a0 They still \"SAMSUNG<\/a>feel he can overcome this current illness and receive his first immunotherapy treatment before returning home.\u00a0 We are hopeful it all works out.\u00a0 We’re not quite ready to let him go.<\/p>\n

Lately, in taking a more active role in grocery shopping (I used to make the list and Bob would shop), I purchased the few things needed and made kolaches last night.\u00a0 The yeast we had was about to expire so I felt the need to use it and after reading a few recipes, I felt I could do it.\u00a0 I already had cheddar and feta cheeses, jalapenos and home-baked ham.\u00a0 I purchased cocktail sausages and fresh baby spinach.\u00a0 They turned out pretty good but the next time I make them, I’ll use less dough-to-filling ratio.\u00a0 I’ll freeze these, then pull them out and reheat them as we need a quick breakfast, lunch or road food.<\/p>\n

Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a crazy 2 weeks it has been! DH Bob became quite ill so DS Jacob decided to come in a little early for Father’s Day to see his dad.\u00a0 We debated whether to take him to the hospital immediately but kept hoping he would improve on his own.\u00a0 He did not. By Sunday, he (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}