Have not been here in a while. Rayelene had major surgery, and it was successful. Infection in the incision and things started to turn. It seems as if the hospital in Delta, had no clue, and when she went to St. Mary's they told her it was bruising from the surgery, and it would heal. Two days later when she was in the bathroom, the infection exploded and shot across the room. Bill took her back to the hospital and I met them there. It was awful. The ER doc opened the incision so that it could drain. Now there is a lower back and hip issue. Told it was the sciatic nerve, the pain just kept getting worse, no sleep, hurt to walk, sit, stand, she was in pain all the time. Then she developed a fever and chills.
She came to stay with me so that her husband Bill could get some sleep. She was up and down and down and up. On Thursday morning, her temperature spiked to 104 and I took her to the Delta County Memorial Hospital, they admitted her, saying she had an infection, and needed high doses of antibiotics given intravenously. I did not go to see her Thursday evening but went up Friday morning. She was passing a lot of dead tissue from the radiation and needed some more pads. She said that her blood pressure was low, and they thought there might be a cyst made up of dead tissue from the radiation, and it had attached itself to the abdominal wall, as well as having a bladder infection and possibly other infections as well. But the antibiotics should take care of it. She went to the bathroom and told the nurse that she had passed some dark red blood, the nurse said that she would note it, but felt that it was due to the abscess and infection.
I did not see her but spoke with her thought out the day. She told me late in the evening that they were running a test on her blood to see if the infection had gotten into the bloodstream, the test would take 24 hours, but was feeling a bit better. I spoke with her on Saturday, went with Gary and Gabi to see her on Saturday evening, she played with Gabi and seemed to be feeling much better. They were no longer giving her antibiotics, only fluids as she had been dehydrated. I had to take Gabi home, she gave her 'baby kisses' and we left. I got a text from her at about 7:30 and she said that the blood test came back negative and she was really happy, now to get the blood pressure up, and the temp down.
I never finished this entry, To be honest, I forgot about the blogs I had started. Sheyanne asked me about bogs and if I had ever used one, I remembered that I had and started a search for them. I found this one about Rayleene and decided it deserved to be completed. Her is the rest of her story
I went to take a shower. Gary yelled at me and said that Rayleene was in trouble and we had to get to the hospital. We rushed to the hospital and were met by her husband Bill and a family friend. They said that Rayleene had gotten up to go to the bathroom and started to bleed. They were airlifting her to St. Mary's in Grand Junction for emergency surgery and we needed to go immediately to Grand Junction.
We arrived at the hospital before the Flight for Life and waited impatiently for its arrival. It seemed like an eternity. After the flight arrived things were a blur, I do not recall all the details. It was if I was viewing all the activity through a cloudy window. Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. Her father and I were called into an office to speak with a physician and the hospital clergy, they told us that things were not good, there was very little chance that they could save her. I remember getting up and walking out of the room, where I went from there I do not remember. I finally found a small alcove with a bench in it and sat down. I had no idea where I was, how to get out of the hospital or get back to the room I had left. I sat on the bench for a time, finally, Gary and the pastor found me, and we went outside. Bill and the family friend arrived and Gary told him what he knew. They went inside the hospital. From here it is all a blur, they told us Rayleene was gone. I called her sister, Tabitha, and brother Jarrod. I think made the call to Travis, Sheyanne's boyfriend at the time, and told him. Jarrod and Tabi both came to the hospital.
We lost our oldest daughter, without a warning, without a whisper, she was gone. I had lost my mother just a 14 months earlier, now my daughter. The pain saturated my brain and body. Never in a lifetime would we have imagined this would happen. I could not breathe. I was numb. It was like a bad nightmare and when I wake up things will be fine. I didn't wake up, the nightmare was a reality.
Gary went with Bill and Tabi to set up the service which will be held at the Confluence Park Gazebo where she got married less than a year ago.
