Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Update on Healing




Sorry these pics are a little blurry but I was in a hurry to get bandaged back up....Praise His Name still no signs of infection, just killer nerve pain, please keep praying for healing though... oh yeah don't be hatein' I know I gots some sexy leggs, minus the big black patch of necrotic tissue, I know I am hot! I go to see my favorite Nurse and her Doc tomorrow, all I know is that I am so ready to be done with this whole deal! Please pray that I can go back to work soon, my clients have been so sweet...but I need to work! Love yall L.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Big Big Thank Yous to Everyone

I want to say THANK YOU to everyone who has helped me and prayed for me during this dog bite incident. I want to say Thank You to first of all to Penny and Rana for coming to the emergency room with me and staying while I got sewn up and put back together, and Penny for taking me to my rehab hospital "Che' Hughes" in Providence. To Andrea, Jonathan and Luke for opening their home and Andrea(my BFF) for being my 24 hour nurse/personal assistant for the first week. I truly believe I would not have healed like I have so far without your help, in fact I am not sure what I would have done. I know that God provides but I sure am glad He provided you! To Poochie Mama, Cindie for taking care of my babies... To the Ladies at the best salon in the world, All About You.. Rana, Bonnie, Linda, Trang and everyone for your kindness and for taking care of my clients, you guys are the best and I can't wait to come back!! To Ericka for bringing me food, entertainment ,the doggies food and bandages and your sweetness, I am glad that you are my friend. Kristen for taking care of the Animal shelter stuff and organizing so much of the stuff that I needed...To Brandi for being my personal driver. To Phillip for getting dog food...To all of the people who raised and gave much needed funds... To Misti, Heather, Julie, Jennifer and Suzanne you girls really helped me out so much...you really stepped up and I am so thankful for all of the treats and meals you brought to my home. My doggies really liked the treats too Suzanne, thanks for thinking of them. To The Village Church and the staff there, yall are amazing and I appreciate everything! You have truly blessed me! For the sweet cards Rebecca and TVC staff. To all of the phone calls and sincere concern. To Penny, the best Mom I never had! You are so great to check on me everyday to make sure I am getting along ok. You are great. Thank you so much to Amy and Dr. Patel you have no idea how your generosity has not only helped me but touched my heart...If I forgot anyone please know that it was not intentional and I am pretty high on pain meds even as I type now, just know that I thank God for each and everyone of you, that you are amazing and I love you. I hope the circumstances never require me to do the same for you, but if it does, I hope I can ride in and save the day for you sometime. Thank you, so much...love Lisa Allen p.s.as I read this over it feels like and Oscar acceptance speech, in this case I think we could just drop the O and call it "scar acceptance".heehee I don't know...what?? I am high and going to bed....love yall

Update, more pictures, skin is dying!

Hey everyone, this is Ericka blogging for Lisa... just took a few pictures of her progress. Looks pretty gross but I hear it's supposed to look like this?? I know her doctors look at the blog, so hopefully they'll let us know if we need to come in. Lisa is doing well, just swollen and sore. Please keep her healing in your prayers!




Update

I went to see the best Dr. in the world...Dr. Patel and his amazing nurse Amy. He took out all but three of the external stitches. He was very gentle but it still hurt some . He said I had a lot of fluid building up in the ankle, foot, toes areas so he gave me a prescription for a water pill to help get rid of it. He also said that I have an area of necrotic tissue that will eventually just fall off but we have to wait and see how deep that will be...I am still in a lot of pain and I have to keep it elevated all the time. Brandi Howard took me to the Doctor and drove me around to get medication and medical supplies this afternoon, she also took update pictures but we will have to add those later. Just know that I am healing well but this is a long road kind of a deal. Thank you Dr. Patel you are amazing....Amy you are a blessing! I love yall.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

The process of healing...

WARNING TO THE SQUEAMISH....graphic pictures below.

Doing much better.... went to the doctor yesterday, everything looks good so far. Despite the pictures below (warning), no infection. As you can see, Nurse Andrea has become my primary caregiver, and she's doing a great job!









Thank you all for your continued prayers!

Blessings...

Wow I can not begin to express my gratitude for all of the blessings that have come my way through this ordeal. I am so thankful for The Body coming together and providing so much of the things that I needed. It completely took the stress of being unable to work off my mind so that I can consentrate on healing. I needed that, desperately. This is the first time I have ever been laid up for an extended period of time. I have never really been injured, Praise God. I have to say I really prefer being on the giving side of things, but like I said I am so thankful to everyone for stepping up. Especially for Andrea, who handled everything for me, as even now I am quite high on pain meds. Speaking of ...these things rock! They are like UH MAZE ING. Anyway I will update with more pics later so we can gage my progress. Love yall....L.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

BOO BOO

I have a boo boo. See pictures below. See Andrea's blog for the major details.

Please blog family,....say a prayer for quick healing.
Lisa