It has been two and a half weeks since I posted and the roller coaster we are on has taken another sharp, violent turn.

The Pit:

As you know, we had been home for two weeks after Sherri had her Stem Cell Transplant.  Things were going quite well until she came down with an infection.  Parainfluenza they called it ... something you or I would get and get sent home because "it is viral and we can't do anything about it so tough it out and drink lots of fluids".  But in her case she spiked a fever and her blood pressure had dropped extremely low so into the hospital she went.

And then life caught up to her.

Slow but sure, day by day, I watched as she slipped further down into the pit and out of my grasp.  I tried my best, the doctors and nursed tried their best, the psychiatrists tried their best ... but she eventually slipped out of our grasps and disappeared  into the murky black abyss of that terrible pit.  It is a terrible, desperate feeling watching her psychologically disappear from my sight.  She is my baby.  She is the light of my life.

It was decided to get her into a psychiatric ward ... something, as I look back, probably should have been her last step last year when she got out of Physical Therapy Rehab.  She had been in the ICU for three and a half weeks, then onto the Joseph Building for recovery for five weeks, then onto Generose 4 for physical rehab for four weeks.  To go into the hospital with the flu and come out without your legs and an arm and hand that look like she stuck it into a cougar cage ... there really should have been some intensive psychological help at the end of all of that.

So, where are we now?  She is in Generose floor three getting the help she needs desperately.  And it is working wonderfully!!  She is night and day different from when she was transported over there and I am absolutely thrilled to see her progress!  Yesterday I took in her 'legs' and her physical therapist and her clinician from the Hanger Clinic came and got her up and walking for a bit.  It was so awesome to see her upright again.  I know there are going to be ups and downs through this whole thing but I hope and pray that this is the one thing she really needs to get her going on life again.

So, if you would please ... please pray for her hard right now.  She is so much better but still struggling.  Yes, pray for her physically but mainly pray for her mentally/emotionally and especially spiritually.  She sometimes struggles with "why would God allow this to happen to me".

Also, please continue to pray that he stem cell transplant worked!  We find that out June 3rd.

Thank you all so much for your continued prayers and I ask to please continue to pray.  I believe God hears each and every prayer so please "pray without ceasing".

May God bless you all so much.  And may God bless my baby ... my Sherri Lynn.

Tim

P.S.  Yes, you can visit her and if God lays that on your heart please do.  Just reach out to me first as only two visitors can be in there at a time.