Some prayers, good thoughts, kind words, whatever for my wife please [View All]

[The Straight Story]

She is really sick. Heading to the clinic tomorrow.

Her asthma has kicked in, she probably has pneumonia, and the tremors from her Parkinson's in her throat make it hard for her to talk well these last two days.

A little blood in her urine, and she has been throwing up a lot w/some blood.

Been hoping it will pass as it usually does, but has been this way longer than usual. She is hanging in there, watching her hockey games and trying to make dinner and such (made a rocking homemade spaghetti and meatballs tonight) but it all wipes her out. I get home from work and she is down for the count, it is all she can do to get my daughter at the bus stop a few houses a way and make dinner (we ate out most of this week as cheap as we could, except tonight).

There seem to be multiple problems right now with her, and they are only getting worse.

She has Asthma, Parkinson's, and several other issues that crop up from time to time (she had cervical cancer twice, CFD, and so on).

And while it is all scary, we have lived with this for a spell. Comes and goes, just seems to be lasting longer and more pronounced each time.

She is weak and tired, and we are both a bit scared. As if bills after being laid off for months are not enough, we have this to deal with.

We both know she will never be the old AutumnMist she was (hiking the redwoods, tent camping, etc), but we at least want something more than her being in bed most the time and struggling just to make dinner (she loves to cook, and is damned good at it - one of those pleasures in life she has always enjoyed and excelled at).

Something has to give. Why the Lord couldn't curse me with this instead of her I will never know. But it is what it is, and I hope you can all brighten her day tomorrow when I show her this thread.