I am going to give this one more try! It seems I get started and then something comes up to distract me and I'm not able to post for awhile- I am determined to not let this happen anymore.
Anyway, I finally got my lay off in April. I was so happy about it at the time(if I had only known what the future held!) I could finally be home with my husband and we could spend some quality time together. We had already sent a deposit for our weekly fishing trip and planned on going in July. In the meantime I filed for unemployment and went to all the meetings that I needed to go to. For the first month I remember sleeping evry chance I could get. I guess I was trying to make up for all those years when we had been working 60-80 hours a week!
One morning I remember my husband waking me up saying his leg was burning. I thought somehow he had burned himself so I told him to put a cold washcloth on it and fell back to sleep! A short time later he was back waking me up saying it still felt like it was on fire. This time I could see both the pain and fear in his face and I knew something was not right.
I went downstairs and began to examine his leg from the knee down. When I got to his foot I knew we had a serious problem-it was icy cold and gray! I told him we needed to go to the walk in clinic right away and have them check it out. He was concerned because we had no insurance but I told him I didn't care we would find a way to pay for whatever treatment he needed.
As soon as the doctor at the clinic took a look at his foot we were told to go immediately to the emergency room at the hospital. Of course my husband argued all the way across town about not being able to pay for all this. I didn't care-I wanted him to get better. The ER techs called in his specialist who admitted him. The doctor told him he didn't care about insurance- he needed to fix his leg.We have never recieved a bill from him either by the way!
After he was settled in his room I went home to let my daughter and evryone else know what was going on. At the same time, my ex-son-in-law was admitted to the intensive care unit because of complications from a surgery for his Chrons disease and they didn't know if he would live or not! That night I went back to visit my husband and found he had also been moved to intensive care- it was a blood clot and they needed to get it dissolved which required thinning his blod to a very dangerous point. Talk about a crazy time!
He spent 10 days up there, at one point he had 7 different IV bottles dangling from his bed! Three rooms down my ex-son-in-law continued to fight for his life too. His wife and I helped each other out by keeping and eye out for each other. When she needed a break I would stay and keep a look out on him and vice versa! They both finally made it through all of this and were released. We are still trying to pay off the 71,000.00 hospital bill!
We had to cancel our fishing trip that year and to make things worse when our lease came up for renewal the landlord raised our rent by 50.00 so we had to find a new place to live. I will tell that story in my next post!
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