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Requesting Prayers for my Wife (2026 update - p. 80)

Elwood von Kiowa said:
July 2026 update. Wish I could leave this thread.

My current job has me away from home for weeks at a time. Steph (Mrs. vK) called me at 0430 Monday, concerned with abdominal pains that she'd had since the day before. Her description made me think gall bladder. By that afternoon, we decided she needed to go to the ER. Because the wait times are so long at our local ER, she called for the ambulance to take her. Sure enough, they found gallstones. Gave her some meds and sent her home Monday night.

So I left work and came home on Tuesday (first available). The earliest appointment for a surgery consult was next Tuesday (7/7), with earliest surgery availability of (??). She worked Wednesday (desk job) and took Thursday off. Had a low grade fever the whole time (under 100). She slept all day Thursday, waking up just for short periods. I thought that's great, she needs her rest. When she woke up, she'd be a bit loopy, you know, making some comments like when someone wakes up in lala land. Didn't think much of it. But I did feel like she needed to get up and at least walk around a bit.

Friday morning, she did start to exercise a little. But her comments were still not making sense. As she woke up, she got more and more incoherent, to where I couldn't even communicate with her. Also her fever was spiking. So I called 911 and got the rescue unit to take her to the ER.

She was in septic shock from the infected gallbladder. BP was dangerously low. She was too unstable for surgery (general anesthesia too risky), but they were able to install a drain tube to drain off the infected bile. Filled the bag in about 10 minutes after the procedure. Fortunately they were able to get her BP back into safe range with meds, and it's normal now that she's safe from the sepsis.

Her cognition is much improved, but she's still in a bit of a fog, between the meds and her general condition. I'm hoping that I can get the doctors convinced to take her gallbladder out ASAP without having to send her home first. That would be the best case, and the fastest route to recovery.

Doc (general practitioner) came in a while ago and said that the septic condition didn't do any favors to her kidneys. Kidney function is looking better today, but all these things bring back traumatic thoughts from her past ordeal.

Prayers appreciated.
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You guys are both in my prayers daily and have been since the start of her painful journey.
 
Appreciate all the prayers and messages!

The worst is past, seemingly. We got home from the hospital last night. Steph still has her gallbladder though, so that surgery still needs to happen. Unfortunately we still haven't met with the surgeon. She had an appointment with him this morning, but wasn't up to traveling to the office (which is next door to the hospital). I made a bunch of calls yesterday to try and get the surgeon to visit/assess her in the hospital yesterday (including someone from his office who said he couldn't see her without a consult first). Today I called his office again, to see if we could do a telehealth call (they don't), and the lady told me "he could have seen her in the hospital." :mad:

So that part is incredibly frustrating. Just keeps dragging on. But Steph is in good spirits. "We have to wait for the infection to go down anyway," she says.

The scariest part was seeing her cognitively impaired, and wondering when (or if) she was coming back. Major flashbacks to 2020/21. That, and the fact that -- no one said it specifically, but -- if I had waited much longer to make that 911 call, she may not have made it. Can't imagine if I hadn't been home when this happened.
 
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