His Battle with a Community Acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) Infection and Septicemia
I made it back to Texas safe and sound, and found my husband and kids no worse for the wear. Marshall said the kids were exceptionally good, and helpful. I knew they would be. I am still loving golf, that day turned his recovery around!!! Marshall saw Dr. D. just before I left, and she told him not to come back for 2 months! Hooray!
I managed to have a great time with my brother in TN, he and I haven’t spent any alone time together in years and years (probably since we despised each other as teenagers).
Dad was on the news in Tennessee just before I went up to see him. Patricia Neal was visiting the rehab center, and Dad got to be in the news clip. Kathy said he was SO excited. I contacted the TV station, and asked them if there was any way they could send me the video so I could see it, and they posted it on the internet for me to see for a few days. I felt so much better after seeing Dad on there–he looked so good, it took a huge load off of me to see for myself, even though it was only a TV clip. Thank you WATE 6 in Knoxville! I have always loved that station–and they still are my favorite, all the way!
So, Dad was much better than I expected him to be. Looked better anyway. In fact, he looks healthy as a horse, but his speech is really coming hard for him. I think that a strokes effect on the brain is amazing and terrible. I can tell that the words he wants to say are in his head, he just can’t get them out of his mouth. That is so frustrating to him, I just know it. I can almost see him reaching for them in his head…..But he looks good, and heathy!
Baseball starts next week. Back to the 2 months of living off of ballpark food. I wonder how Marshall is going to deal with all of that.