Some serious stuff

These blogs get posted weird so the first blog you read at this point is the most serious and painful at this point. I will have to post one after this just to lighten the mood a bit..
I remind myself daily, hourly sometimes that things can be worse. These last 2 months have been very difficult for our family as many of you might know. On August 20th Ron got very sick. He went to work like usual, but woke up that morning feeling "off" as he said. He told me if felt as though there was something stuck to the bottom of his foot and his sock felt tight. I asked him to take his sock off and look at it but he was busy doing his work stuff and didn't. He came home that night (by the grace of God he made it home, I don't know how he would have otherwise) pale, feverish, barely able to walk and talking crazy. He was burning up with fever and when I got him on the bed to evaluate what was going on with his foot (he was now complaining his entire leg hurt) I was shocked! It was shortly after that he passed out and was unconscious. His leg was the same size from the knee down and I needed to cut his sock off to reveal a very obvious infection. I called 911 and Ron was transported via ambulance to the ER. Within 2 hours they had him hooked up to IV on 4 different kinds of antibiotics, and into emergency surgery. As I signed the consent form for his surgery the doctors words and explanation of what was happening was both a blur and as loud as a train wreck. "At this point I don't know how much of his leg I will be able to save" Those words still echo in my head every doctors visit, every other day when I drive him to the doctors I worry we will hear those words again. The diagnosis...Flesh eating bacteria. Ron came out of surgery 3 hours later, with his entire leg still in tack, however, they did some extensive cutting to remove all the bad flesh and bacteria. This all started from a small cut on the outside of his foot. Being diabetic he had less feeling from a condition called neuropathy, so while this cute was getting infected Ron didn't notice until it was too late. The outcome of this is still up in the air and we are taking it day by day. He is currently on 3 antibiotics and they are trying to be conservative when it comes to doing more surgery. The flesh eating part of this infection is gone but he is dealing with bone infection and secondary infections of staph. He cant be on his foot for longer than an hour or he is in so much pain from the swelling that occurs. The other side effect to this diabetes is the fact that the bad blood circulation makes healing more difficult. Wounds such as these need good blood flow to the capillaries and when that is lacking there is a slower healing process. Ron is currently under the care of 4 doctors...A wound care specialist, an infectious disease doctor, his primary and the surgeon. They are all amazing.
What I must add here is that without the help and support of our amazing friends and family we would not be handling this as well as we are. My mom has been staying with us, helping out with the girls when I am at the hospital with Ron. I don't have to worry about taking them out of their normal environment or breaking up their normal schedule, that's very important. Our soccer family OH my gosh, they have been amazing. They have brought tears of joy to my eyes on more than one occasion in this last month. I love you guys. Thank you so much.