August 18, 2008

August 18, 2008

It was a crazy and tiring day yesterday, august 16, 2008.   Jodi awakened early in the AM with a fever.  By 8:AM it was 101.9 degrees and her right eye was mottled, swollen, red, and  gunky.  I called the eye center to cancel and they said that they wanted to see the eye and for her to come down anyway.  I took her to the leg Dr. first so that they could rule out infection in the leg.  All was ok there but they spent some time with me showing me how to adjust the leg contraption each day.  By the time that we got to the eye center, her eye had cleared and her fever was down to normal.  After checking the eye, and not finding any evidence of infection, ( It was no longer inflamed or swollen and barely red)  they performed the surgery under local instead of general anesthesia due to worry about the reason for the fever.  They also lifted her right cheek a small amount so that it would help her talk.  She is now home with both her leg and eye bandaged.  Her leg looks nasty to say the least but she will get used to it.  By the way, when she had her temp I also called her brother and his neighbor to give Jodi a blessing.  It is no wonder that all was well with her by the time we reached SLC.   We take a lot for granted! Connie

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