Karen picked up right where she left off yesterday. Today she took on the treadmill. She did three reps for three minutes each, resting in between each rep. She was winded, but she gutted each one out for the whole three minutes. Then she sat in the recliner for about six hours today. For the Per de resistance, Karen endured twelve hours of initiating her breathing with the ventilator. She has to initiate the breath and then the ventilator shoots air through t...he trachea tube. She was wiped at hour number ten, but refused to give up. She was not going to settle for anything less than the whole twelve hours today. She is absolutely exhausted after her hard work today, but I hope we have a better night than last night. She could not go to sleep so we were both up all night because I will not go to sleep until she crashes. Keep your fingers crossed for a restful night. Again, thank you everyone for your continued support.
How to Help
As you probably know, Karen is recovering from a double lung transplant. For a more detailed description of The McGinnis Family and everything they have been through, please see their story on the gofundme site, which is linked on the right of this page. If you would like to help, please see the list below of things that would really help them during this difficult time:
1. Thoughts and Prayers - This is most important to the family and they really appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers! Please leave a comment on the blog for Karen to read!
2. Food - On this site is a link for the food calendar. There are no allergies and the only food that is not a favorite for all of them (but some of them do like it) is seafood.
3. Other Gift Cards - If cooking is not your thing, they would always be happy to have gift cards. The gas costs are piling up as the kids drive back and forth to the hospital. Grocery store gift cards and gift cards to places like Walmart or Target for household items would also be very much appreciated.
4. Monetary Donations - the GoFundMe site is also linked on the side of this page. They have recently found out that insurance isn't covering Karen's last hospital visit, which is costing more than $17,000! Also, they will be eating a lot at the hospital over the next several weeks and that money can add up as well. --If you would like to donate something but can't get it to their house (or mail it), please let me know and I would be happy to pick it up and deliver it to the family! stacey.grote@huschblackwell.com
Please see below for updates on Karen's progress. Go Karen, Go!
1. Thoughts and Prayers - This is most important to the family and they really appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers! Please leave a comment on the blog for Karen to read!
2. Food - On this site is a link for the food calendar. There are no allergies and the only food that is not a favorite for all of them (but some of them do like it) is seafood.
3. Other Gift Cards - If cooking is not your thing, they would always be happy to have gift cards. The gas costs are piling up as the kids drive back and forth to the hospital. Grocery store gift cards and gift cards to places like Walmart or Target for household items would also be very much appreciated.
4. Monetary Donations - the GoFundMe site is also linked on the side of this page. They have recently found out that insurance isn't covering Karen's last hospital visit, which is costing more than $17,000! Also, they will be eating a lot at the hospital over the next several weeks and that money can add up as well. --If you would like to donate something but can't get it to their house (or mail it), please let me know and I would be happy to pick it up and deliver it to the family! stacey.grote@huschblackwell.com
Please see below for updates on Karen's progress. Go Karen, Go!
Friday, January 30, 2015
Update from Mike, 1/29
Karen picked up right where she left off yesterday. Today she took on the treadmill. She did three reps for three minutes each, resting in between each rep. She was winded, but she gutted each one out for the whole three minutes. Then she sat in the recliner for about six hours today. For the Per de resistance, Karen endured twelve hours of initiating her breathing with the ventilator. She has to initiate the breath and then the ventilator shoots air through t...he trachea tube. She was wiped at hour number ten, but refused to give up. She was not going to settle for anything less than the whole twelve hours today. She is absolutely exhausted after her hard work today, but I hope we have a better night than last night. She could not go to sleep so we were both up all night because I will not go to sleep until she crashes. Keep your fingers crossed for a restful night. Again, thank you everyone for your continued support.
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