This is a "Dr. visit week" for us, which always means a bit more hectic than usual. I have several posts I'd like to get up, but there's a lot to do so I may not get the chance.
Really, it's not all that far away, 2 hours one way no matter which route we take, and all-told we're usually gone less than 12 hours, but that seems to be really trying for the kids with both of us parents gone for the day. I need to have everything "just-so" before we head out at 6 a.m. so nobody explodes while we're gone. It's funny, it's nowhere near as difficult as my friend Kate's trips to the hospital for her son, but challenging in it's own way.
Usually one of the older girls is home with several of the little ones and we take the two youngest. Well, last time that was a fiasco. We had SO much to discuss and neither Lara nor Ian would sit still or be quiet. We talked to the doctor for an hour, and whole it was awesome getting so much time in with her, it was rather hellish trying to keep those two kids quiet so I could hear.
Marty could very well go in alone, except that he has no recollection of the accident or first several weeks after his fall. He also doesn't retain medical "lingo" too well and needs to look to me often for answers. So, in reality, it's more like I'm visiting the Dr except that I don't have any injuries.
At any rate, Marty has decided to have arthroscopy done on his right shoulder. Not a big procedure, but a procedure nonetheless, and one that he needs to be sedated for. He's not looking forward to that, and neither am I since it means a 3:30 or 4:00 a.m. departure time on that day.
This visit will be with his ortho and the trauma doctors that cared for him while he was in the STICU. He's never "met" them at all, and I just wonder what they will think when they see him walking and talking.
Hopefully we'll get some answers about the memory losses Marty has suffered (both long and short-term) and the swallowing difficulties and whether or not there is brain damage that is just now rearing it's ugly head.
He also needs an EMG for his leg so they can check out nerve response there and decide if he will ever have normal range-of-motion with is left foot.
I'm betting it will be a longer day than usual with a whole host of doctors, including a hand specialist running in as a special request of Marty's ortho.
Thoughts and prayers, if you will, for everyone that day!
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