It's been a rough year for my FI and I and I'm just asking for you to please keep him in your thoughts/prayers/good wishes (whatever it is you do). Nick has a congenital disease that has plagued him since birth, but in the last few years has pretty much left him alone. Back in November, it struck and his liver began to fail. They were able to medicate him and get it back to where it needed to be. In March, it acted up again, but the doctors were undecided on what the problem was, but it managed to straighten itself out in about a week. On May 14, he had his sixth open heart surgery to replace his aortic and pulmonary valves in his heart and repair part of his aorta. A few days after being discharged, he spiked a fever and we ended up back in the hospital for a few days. We got home and things went okay for about a week, and then we got a phone call from my 8-month pregnant sister, saying that she was headed to the hospital because she hadn't felt the baby move. We lost our dear sweet neice that night, and since my sister was so far along, she had to deliver the baby. Nick lost a little sister to the same disease he has, when she was 8 months old and he was 5 years old. Baby Cloey brought back all of the heartbreak that Nick went through losing his sister and we both took it very hard. Then on June 12, Nick began vomiting blood and we brought him back to the hospital. His liver is acting up once again, and now the talks are beginning about potentially doing a transplant.
tl:dr Nick is sick and we would appreciate the positive thoughts.
Thanks Knotties! Hope things in your lives are smoother than they are in ours.