6 months ago today was Terrible Thursday

So, Terrible Thursday was 6 months ago today…. I figured I should post an update on how mom is doing.

She’s been going back to work 4 days a week for 4-5 hours a day, but some days she only makes it a couple of hours before she’s exhausted. Her stamina just isn’t there and she’s pushing herself pretty hard to get back to the grind. Lately, she hasn’t been sleeping very well and getting only 3 hours or so of sleep, so I think that’s catching up to her. She hadn’t been napping at all during the day, because she didn’t want to make it harder to fall asleep. I believe she’s been trying to get some catnaps now, which should be helping.

The black bits on her hands and feet are completely gone now! She only has her right foot bandaged from the ball of her foot and over the toes, because of the open wound on her big toe and the “hole” on the end of her middle toe. The big toe is almost healed up, but that middle toe is still draining. The foot doctor saw her this week and wants her to come back in 4-6 weeks. If everything is all healed by then, she doesn’t need to come back. Yay!

Mom’s hair had been coming out a LOT, usually in clumps with scalp still attached. I think the skin there died as well during all the trauma. It’s growing back nicely, though, so it shouldn’t be long before she has a nice full head of hair again. Her friend has been cutting it and we think it looks very nice on her. I’m going to recommend she keeps the shoulder length cut, if she wants my opinion on the matter. Haha!

Her blood work still looks fine and the doctors are planning on removing that large 39mm stone from her right kidney sometime towards the end of the year. They need her to be healthy and healed enough to be able to go through with it.

I’m going to add some pictures of her fingers that we took over Memorial Day weekend. We’re thrilled she’s still keeping her awesome attitude and improving every day. Thank you for your continued thoughts and prayers – we appreciate every bit of positive energy sent our way.

I'll try to do another update when we see her over Labor Day weekend, because I know everything looks better than these after pics. This was just the most recent ones I have. 

Comparing her pinkies... You can see the right one is shorter than the left now. The rough bit on the end is actually her bone. 

Before and after of her arm where the IV had been (it looks even better now, but I didn't take pics the last time we saw her): 

Her feet (the black bits weren't gone yet here and the scars are a little lighter now):

Her hand: