hey:
it is saturday afternoon and i am up at the hospital with karen. things are getting better but very very slowly. when hey get karen up to walk she gets a brace on her left ankle that keeps her foot and toes up so that they do not drag behind. this helps her put her foot flat on the floor as she moves it forward. she uses what i would call a fancy cane (picture on lef tof karen walking in to see jenna and kyler today) on the right side. it is a cane with 4 legs at the bottom of a box like frame. still just a cane though. her therapist stands to her left to insure her balance is good because if she fell now she really would have near nothing to stop her self with.
she will have her stitches out on tuesday. there is a chance we will talk to at least one doctor about the future of the cancer treatment, but she has another appointment on tuesday the 15th to really finalize what her neuro-oncologist wants to do (at emory). we still plan to meet with the duke u oncologist as soon as we can but have not even talked to them about appointments yet.
again karen would love to talk to you or for you to even visit if you can but don't be surprised if she is very tired and may cut it short. the room number again is 770 909 2316
it is saturday afternoon and i am up at the hospital with karen. things are getting better but very very slowly. when hey get karen up to walk she gets a brace on her left ankle that keeps her foot and toes up so that they do not drag behind. this helps her put her foot flat on the floor as she moves it forward. she uses what i would call a fancy cane (picture on lef tof karen walking in to see jenna and kyler today) on the right side. it is a cane with 4 legs at the bottom of a box like frame. still just a cane though. her therapist stands to her left to insure her balance is good because if she fell now she really would have near nothing to stop her self with.
she will have her stitches out on tuesday. there is a chance we will talk to at least one doctor about the future of the cancer treatment, but she has another appointment on tuesday the 15th to really finalize what her neuro-oncologist wants to do (at emory). we still plan to meet with the duke u oncologist as soon as we can but have not even talked to them about appointments yet.
again karen would love to talk to you or for you to even visit if you can but don't be surprised if she is very tired and may cut it short. the room number again is 770 909 2316
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Thank you for the update - looks like Karen is making good progress on the road to recovery! Prayers for all of you and the Doctors. :-)
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