R Update

Tomorrow will be a week that R has been in the rehab facility.  He will be staying there until January 3.  Yes, Christmas and New Year's.   It seems he takes one step forward and 3 steps back.  He felt really bad yesterday and today.  He had a  couple of days when his legs weren't so swollen and weeping.  The wounds are slowly healing , but today his legs were weeping really bad again and he's very swollen.  I'm sure they will have to give him lasix again, and that will put more strain on his kidneys.  I feel so bad for him, and sad, and I'm trying so hard to keep his spirits up.  He's depressed over being there, and especially so because of the holidays.  He becomes very frustrated by all of it, and especially his inability to get his legs to work.  He said they feel like he has weights attached to them.  Between the cellulitis and the renal failure,  his body is having to fight so hard.  He's a very sick man, and this is such a vast, scary landscape that we find ourselves in.