A  woman who read my blog wanted to visit. She came to the assisted living home I was then at.
Was I JEALOUS! She used a walker,but got around well. That was about 5 years ago. Today she is in a rehab facility.

Pressure sores began to compromise her ability to walk, drive, and eventually stand. There are Wound Clinics to help you care with pressure sores. She had been there many times. She chronicles her fights with Medicare to get better pressure cushions and a user-friendly power chair in her own blog: halt stop forget relax.

We have a lot in common, our age, our fun-filled time with MS and our long marriages to someone with their own health battles. She has an MS problem I don't though: the common, but deadly urinary attack. This led years ago to her need of a catheter. They come with their own difficult issues.
Her loving spouse tries to help, but our spouses are not nurses (and they certainly never signed up for MS 101) and sh** happens.

They have been to many ERs for urinary tract infections (UTI), a complication that can kill someone with MS.

The last week of July she went to an ER for this reason.

She got a staph infection, the hospital kept her two weeks on IV antibiotics. The pressure sore on her foot got so bad that surgery was done to remove most of one toe. By now her weakness was great and the hospital sent her straight to a rehab center.

She is having daily visits from OTs (occupational therapists) and PTs (physical therapists) and nurses. Her speech became very slurred and she "forgot" how to swallow, another MS complication that can lead to asphyxiation and death.

So...another couple of weeks and they may release her.

Those 'complications' are what GET JA.

Just another day with MS. We are thinking of you, Webster.