shaynanagins...

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

so much going on...

my dad is having an angioplasty tomorrow...i am really anxious about it. i know it's not a major surgery but it's still nerve wracking to think he's going under the knife. i am thinking about driving down to dallas tonight just to be there but i am not sure if that's the best idea. it's really scary when you're parents are old enough to get things like angioplasties...ugh.

my nana has taken a turn for the worst, too. she developed several blisters on her foot which have turned infectious. she had gangrene scraped out of one and the other is being treated so that infection does not occur. there's an option to amputate but she is not expressing much pain and the family has decided that until she expresses pain, we will not consider amputation. there's an oxygenation process that can be done to help the wounds to breathe but it's experimental. at this point, it's hard to make a decision of what to do. if she does have the surgery, there's a chance she might not wake up. if she doesn't, the infection will travel to her heart and ultimately cause her death. kind of a catch 22.

this is a bummer of a post. hopefully i can think of something more uplifting for my next post.

2 Comments:

Blogger Nikki said...

sorry to hear about this stuff, shayna! i'll keep your nana and your dad in my prayers!

12:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

how did your dad's surgery go?

4:16 PM  

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