Sis-in-Law needs a Prayer filled miracle
This will probably be the last update for a few weeks. She was delivered here at my house Late at night on Wednesday the 20th. Transport was the delay there. They got her in and settled in the bed without issue. Thursday afternoon, she had an appointment at another location with the Doc that will be treating her specifically. Came home from that with the plan of radiation to kill and shrink it as much as they can in a 4-6 week period. With that, she had an appointment at the outpatient radiation center back at Johns Hopkins yesterday. They had her come in for "the whole talk" and to map the tumor for pinpointed application of the radiation treatments. That will start on Thursday of this week, so they decided to just keep her there since she is pretty much immobile with the size of this thing. It was not fun helping to load her in the car.
So - in about 5-7 weeks, the removal surgery will be taking place. From there it will be skin graphs, reconstruction, rehab, PT/OT. She's still got a long road ahead of her, but the prognosis is above a 95% chance of survival afterwards.
She has opened up when MIL is not in the room about realizing her bad choices over a year ago resulted in what has to happen now and everything she has put us all through.
She and I had about 20 minutes alone the other evening. She is apologizing for messing up everyone's lives and being such a burden. I told her every thing prior to today is what it is and she just needs to focus on moving forward in the right direction. She also asked me what happened between the time she was loaded in the ambulance on Feb 4th and Feb 22nd. She does not remember any of it in between. She knew of the helicopter flight only because they had told her. So I told her at risk of telling her things she doesn't already know, I gave her the details and timeline of how close to death she was and for how long. She stared crying again saying she was so sorry. I reminded her to just look forward, hindsight can't change the past, and that we've had her back from the beginning and will continue to have her back through the rest of it.
She also told her mother last evening, on the phone, that until she gets acclimated to the new digs and radiation process, that she only wants her husband there. This is a result of a conversation that we all had without MIL. The 4 of us (my wife, BIL, SIL and myself) all agree that SIL and BIL need a break from her. Unfortunately, that leaves a grumpy old lady who complains about everything in life with us....LOL SIL also now sees how bad MIL treats my wife. said she knew she complained about her at times, but had no idea how bad it really was. That was my window to say that we need a break when all this is done and maybe we swap MIL between our house and there place every 3 months. BIL said he'd file for divorce.... I hope he was kidding.