Server Migration Got Derailed
Monday, October 21, 2024
Written by Kodi Wolf at 9:07 AM
So, my plans took a serious detour.
My wife ended up in the ICU with sepsis. She had a 3mm kidney stone get stuck in her ureter, which caused bacteria to build up in her kidney and she went septic.
After calling 911 and spending the day in the ER, they finally diagnosed her and recommended emergency surgery to put in a stent. Still not sure why they didn't just take the stone, but we're guessing it was because she was so sick and they didn't want to tax her body any further. After the surgery, the doctor told us to "pray for her," so yeah, it was bad.
She spent several days in the ICU because she needed to be on a ventilator and pumped full of antibiotics, but then they moved her to a regular room to start working on physical therapy.
But of course the insurance denied in-patient PT, so with the doctor's approval, we took her home and the insurance seems to have approved in-home PT, which has actually worked out way better.
She's finished a course of cipro and though the urologist originally had her scheduled for lithotripsy to blast the stone, there are some issues we need to clear up before she does that.
The aftercare for the lithotripsy involves inversion therapy for half an hour twice a day at a 30-45 degree angle to flush the kidneys.
But we know from past experience that will cause her to have ocular aneurysms after only a couple minutes due to her glaucoma, and her ophthalmologist is adamant that she not do that. So we have a consultation appointment scheduled for late November to figure out the best course of action going forward.
She seems to be out of the woods now and is back home and improving on a daily basis, but we're still in the middle of it and she's got quite a bit of recovery to get through.
At first, she was using a walker and other home health aids to do basic tasks, but thankfully, with the PT, she's been getting stronger every day. And one of my sisters was able to come stay with us to help, since I can't drive and my fibro and other issues make physically helping my wife very difficult.
I also just got diagnosed with frozen shoulder the day before this all kicked off and got a cortisone shot, but then had an allergic reaction to it with a massive fever in my arm, so yeah, good times.
But she is doing so much better and everyone's been saying they expect her to make a full recovery.
Anyway, this was on top of HostGator dicking me around again after spending $1,200 on the new server (though granted, that's for 2 years of hosting), so I've been trying to migrate my websites myself.
They gave me a free month, so I have until 10/23 before the old server expires, but I haven't gotten the new software installed on the new server (for obvious reasons) and I only just yesterday got the nameservers updated to point to the new server because it's taken me that long to get the new site finished.
And I still haven't gotten the SSL certificate installed, so my site appears to be 'unsecure,' which means I need to get that taken care of before I can even attempt to install the new membership software.
But without the membership software, you won't be able to log in, I won't be able to send emails to you guys through the software, and my stories won't be protected, which is why I've removed the paid chapters and ebooks from the site for the time being.
To be honest, it's all just too much right now.
So I'm going to focus on my wife and her recovery and I'll figure the site out later.
I do have everyone's membership information, so I should be able to eventually get everything set up again and email you what you need to know to login, etc., but it could be months. If you need the files that come with your membership, let me know, and I'll email them to you.
Take care and I hope everyone's doing well.
