So this is a pretty comprehensive update on both Wendy and her mom

Wendy has been home since Thursday afternoon and adapting to life post sepsis and post pneumonia.  While strong enough to be home she has quite a way to go to be strong again.  The protocol for now is 2 weeks of absolutely nothing but home rest except for doctor appointments.  She is to be visited by home health nurses and aides over this time period.  Complete recovery, from a standpoint of strength, is going to be 2 months.  

Timing, they say, is everything, and the timing of Wendy's illness sadly collided with the end of the line for her mom's time covered by Medicaid for skilled care at a local nursing home.  Sometime over the next two weeks her mom needs to leave that place unless she becomes a permanent resident.  Incredibly, despite every member of the family's sincere doubts, the PT team has advised her mom that she should be able to return home with a wheelchair, oxygen and some home health.  The idea of her returning to her own apartment where this now 128 day nightmare began is concerning.  However, since the recommendation is coming from medical professionals and Wendy cannot now possibly be her mom's primary caregiver, we are faced with allowing her to try this or indeed put our foot down and have her stay at the nursing home.  Ultimately it is her mom's decision so since Wendy needs to get well and she needs as much of my help, and help of others to recover, we are pretty much stuck.  Sadly, I had to go and inform my mother-in-law that if she insists on going home, there is no help coming from Wendy for quite some time.

There will be plenty of details to fill in over the course of the next several weeks as all this unfolds but for Wendy and me the clear unmistakable priority is getting Wendy well.  Her case of sepsis was caught in time and responded quickly to the antibiotics.  If we would have ignored her symptoms and treated her fever and pain as if it was just the flu, her life could have been in jeopardy by morning.  We dodged a proverbial bullet and I have my wife home yet she cannot, under any circumstances care for her mom as she envisioned.  For her part, her mom clearly understands this as she makes this difficult decision to return home.

For now I am more concerned with getting Wendy well while I need to be at work for the crucial 4th quarter of the fiscal year.  Many people have jumped to our aid; thanks to all.  We will have plenty to eat without having to prepare much over the next week.  Getting Wendy to various doctor appointments will still be a struggle but we deal with it as it comes up.  Visits yesterday from both of my sisters and daughter Elizabeth with baby Brennan sure made her day.  Saturday was a good day for her; today much more quiet but she is doing just fine.

So again thanks for all your help and your prayers, everyone of them we feel and we appreciate.  

More news to come!