Growing tired of the apathetic approach of the SH doctors, I pulled MIke out of the nursing home yesterday and took him back to Corvallis to the ER. The admitted him immediately, fearing the infection in his foot had reached the bone and talking about doing an angiogram and an arterial bypass. They did the angiogram last night and found that the smaller vessels in the foot are in pretty bad shape but the major ones with the exception of one are not. This morning they are going to take him to surgery and open up his foot and clean it out really well. They will also do a scan of the leg to see if the infection has reached the bone as Mike’s arch on his left foot is now nowhere to be seen. The surgeon believes the bones are crumbling.

I’m up and need to feed the beasts before I go. I took Kodie with me yesterday as Baron is now with Chris and Kodie jumped out of the truck after it was parked and came to the ER looking for me! So today, I have to leave her at home because it is going to be so hot- that the only way she can stay in the truck is if the windows are down all the way.

Here is the ramp that Dennis and Jack built-