Just a couple of weeks ago, Cheri, our Director of First Impressions, came into the office with a noticeable limb.  After questioning her, you would have found out that she was injured walking into her home when the screen door hit the back of her foot, causing a pretty deep gash.

We ribbed Cheri for a few days until she finally went to the doctor.  She found out that she desperately needed stitches and that she had torn her achilles.  If you have ever torn your achilles you know how painful this can be…..and to think she wasn’t even going to bother with going to the doctor.  She is definitely tougher than the rest of us!

Things seemed to be going well for a few days aside from the pain of the injury.  Then about a week ago, Cheri ran out of the medicated cream for the cut.  She called the nurse practitioner and was told to simply put some Neosporin on the injury.  This sounded innocent enough but Cheri had an allergic reaction to the Neosporin, which cause some major blistering and incredible pain. 

Cheri called letting the doctor know about the pain and blistering.  After going back to the doctor’s office, she found out that she may end up losing the entire foot due to the infection and allergic reaction.  You can only imagine the how Cheri felt upon hearing this news.  Seriously, it seemed so minor just a week or so prior. 

After just a few more days, she was again at the doctor’s office.  This time the doctor was telling her that the wound was not healing, the infection is spreading and that they may need to amputate the entire leg if she didn’t start to heal fast.  After talking to Amari DeKrey about her husband’s slow healing due to low potassium, Cheri convinced the doctor to do some blood work…hoping to find that she too had low potassium.

Just as we thought it could not get any worse, it did!  Cheri does not have low potassium, she has cancer in her blood stream.  Leukemia is the reason the leg isn’t healing. 

It is hard to say if this is good or bad.  If they had not found out why she wasn’t healing properly, she may lost her foot and leg this week.  Now that they know, they may be able to find a way to help her foot and leg heal.  Yet, it’s not ever good to find out that you have cancer.

Cheri is going back to the doctor tomorrow (Tuesday) to find out what she needs to do and what the probable outcome is.  So, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.