Recent content by CtTortoiseMom

Yay, congrats to your son :) what is ODP? [hr] Oh & wow!!

I LOVE this pic! How come after everyone asking, no one is freaking out because you finally showed a pic of yourself? She is one good looking female!

That is all great to hear! Is your thumb still in pain? How's Jacqui?

Hi all, this was perfect timing for me to come on:). I was trying to catch up on the pages I missed. Rand is doing so well it is miraculous! His ox sat level has never been above 94 on a good day and now he is living at 100%. His lung and right side of his heart damage are already gone and his...

Sibi- whoa, that looks do painful! I am do glad it is getting better! Ken-I believe cortisone shots do work for awhile. My ortho keeps offering them to me for my knee that has had a few surgeries and is really sore in the winter. If you get it, tell me how long it lasts and I might get them...

We had a quick trip to the hospital this morning to draw lines around some redness around his incision sight. Everything looked really good but if the red area's go outside of the pen borders he is going to have to go on IV antibiotics. We go back on Wednesday. I feel like we are headed in the...

What's wrong? Stress makes me eat too! Well not in the moment but after. It's like I need to totally veg out and make a pig of myself to decompress.

Yah, USDA or any gov loan is not ideal in any way. In my state you have to make less than 100k a year to qualify for it and our friends that qualified were looking at home's that were 1/2 mil and above. I think their situation is a prime example of why the market crashed! Sounds like a great...

Are you sure you even need a down payment? Our friends were telling us that they qualified for some USDA loan where they accept 0 down. I think that if a person can, they should put as much down as possible to avoid PMI and to get a little equity right out of the gate. But you need to do what...

OMG, those look so good!! I want crab Rangoon now!!

Great pic but how the heck did you get that biggin' in there??! [hr] Thank's Jacqui! Yes, the ice cold feeling is leaving my body and I am warming up and I was all of a sudden so hungry. But, now after eating everything in sight I am regretting it!!

Hi, we are home!! It is really scary being home so I haven't been doing anything but following him around! We were discharged last night after he had a clear chest x-ray and echo. He still has fluid in his chest which is very common after open heart surgery so he will need a high dose of lasix...

I am going to post these pics and then I am going to catch up on what I missed and hopefully chat with you all!! Rand had a hard two days and then miraculously, like someone flipped a switch he improved by leaps and bounds, here are the pics from late afternoon.... And he was able to...

Oh the complications!! It started when they opened the chest, they hadn't even begun to open his heart and we heard the anesthesiologist paged to room 3 stat, and we thought oh my god that is Rands room. The nurse ran out to tell us that he was having arrhythmia's and they thought they were...

Hi all, we are finally on the other side of this. He had a ton of complications during surgery and I think I aged 50 years today. He has been in the PICU now since 1pm. He is doing ok now. :) I am hopeful that things will get better from here...