This is a five generation picture. From lt to rt
Thelma Russell ( my grandmother) holding Madeline Riley Herth
Teresa Wolf ( my mother)
Lisa Atwell (me)
Ashley N. Herth ( my daughter)
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Life after.......
It has been such a long time since my last post. We have had many celebrations since my surgery, and felt the need to blog today.
I have become a grandmother. My dg was born 2-11-08 and her name is Madeline Riley Herth. I was present during her birth and actually got to cut the cord, as her father didn't think he could do it. She is a much loved little girl and like her mother, she is spirited. That is my way of saying she is a handful.
It is with great regret that I post my mothers husband passed away last month. He had been in the hospital since March 6, 2008, he passed May 28, 2008.
The topic of this blog is to chronicle life after tp/ict. My quality of life is better. I am able to eat without rolling in the floor screaming. I still have chronic pain. I have pain after eating and through out the day. Life isn't easy, and I have not returned to work. However, I do consider the surgery somewhat successful. I do have a few days where I can accomplish things. I have some bad days where I find it difficult to get dressed. I have always been the type of person where I will do what ever I can to get done what needs to be done. If it meant taking the tube feeding off the pole and carrying the pump and solution down stairs to another pole and staying down there to get the laundry done ( while tube feeding myself) well that is what was done. Someone had to wash the clothes and at the time my husband was working and a full time college student.
Michael finished his bachelors in nursing in the summer of 2007. He was of course 1st in his class. Currently we are looking at NP school. He is attempting to switch jobs so that he can full fill his clinical obligation. NP education requires a certain amount of clinical time observed by a physician and it must be done around your schedule. It is impossible to work M-F 7-3:30 and accomplish the clinical requirements so we are looking for a weekend option position.
It is my hope to post some pictures of the events of the last year. I will however need to find them first so that I can post them. Most likely the pictures are divided between 4 computers. OH, the joys of technology.
Lisa
I have become a grandmother. My dg was born 2-11-08 and her name is Madeline Riley Herth. I was present during her birth and actually got to cut the cord, as her father didn't think he could do it. She is a much loved little girl and like her mother, she is spirited. That is my way of saying she is a handful.
It is with great regret that I post my mothers husband passed away last month. He had been in the hospital since March 6, 2008, he passed May 28, 2008.
The topic of this blog is to chronicle life after tp/ict. My quality of life is better. I am able to eat without rolling in the floor screaming. I still have chronic pain. I have pain after eating and through out the day. Life isn't easy, and I have not returned to work. However, I do consider the surgery somewhat successful. I do have a few days where I can accomplish things. I have some bad days where I find it difficult to get dressed. I have always been the type of person where I will do what ever I can to get done what needs to be done. If it meant taking the tube feeding off the pole and carrying the pump and solution down stairs to another pole and staying down there to get the laundry done ( while tube feeding myself) well that is what was done. Someone had to wash the clothes and at the time my husband was working and a full time college student.
Michael finished his bachelors in nursing in the summer of 2007. He was of course 1st in his class. Currently we are looking at NP school. He is attempting to switch jobs so that he can full fill his clinical obligation. NP education requires a certain amount of clinical time observed by a physician and it must be done around your schedule. It is impossible to work M-F 7-3:30 and accomplish the clinical requirements so we are looking for a weekend option position.
It is my hope to post some pictures of the events of the last year. I will however need to find them first so that I can post them. Most likely the pictures are divided between 4 computers. OH, the joys of technology.
Lisa
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