It's been a long week...

We got home from the hospital Monday night and not very long afterwards

got a message to get back over to the hospital as they were going to transfer

my mom to Lutheran hospital in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. (1.5 hours away) and

possibly do surgery yet that night... so we hurried back and waited.

This weeks theme seems to be *waiting*...maybe God is trying to teach

us patience.  They eventually got her on her way, but in the meantime had

 told us that the surgery would not happen until the next day after all.

I don't know about you, but around here when it rains it pours!

Our car was having problems so hubby had driven it to work to

stop by the shop and find out what was wrong with it.

That meant that I had to wait until hubs got home to get back

over to the hospital before they loaded mom up for her 1.5 hour ride

to the hospital.  The next morning bright and early (5 ish am) dad

picked us both up and we headed to Lutheran confident that

mom would have her surgery and all would be right with the

world.

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Unbeknownst to us God had other plans. We waited and waited and

waited some more. They finally got her down to pre-op where we

waited even longer. We were absolutely blown away when the doctors

nurse finally came in {after several hours of waiting} and told us that

there would be no surgery today because there had been a *brown out*

and the operating rooms were running on generator power.  Can you

believe it?? So back up to her room she goes. By now she is in severe

pain again and starving because of pain meds and food stopped for

surgery. So twice we thought the surgery was going to happen and

it didn't. 

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When we finally got home from the hospital that evening , I had to jump

 in the car again and hubby in his truck so we could drive another  half

 hour away and drop off the car at the shop to be fixed with an estimate

of $300.

Mom made it through the night {not without horrible pain though}

 and yesterday morning they whisked her off to pre-op at 10 am. 

The nurses were saying  operation at NOON...yes!!

Bear in mind that my mom had been flat on her back since early

 Saturday morning and when not drugged up still in a great deal of pain.

We waited...and waited...and waited some more.We took turns sitting

with her and it made for another very long day.

{shop called my cell while we were sitting there waiting and said estimate was

 revised to $700-$1000...not what I wanted to hear ,but what can you do}

 Finally about 3:40 pm they actually took her to surgery. {I am leaving out a

 lot of details or this would be a thousand page book!}

The surgery only took a little over an hour and the ER doc had told

 us horror stories of an 8 hour surgery and loss of blood ...too risky at

 her age etc. etc. so that was amazing in itself.  We finally were able to see

 her last night a couple hours post op and she was doing  well.  When she

 got back in her room, She said if she would have been able, she would

have gotten up and danced on the table! lol.

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She is to come home today and I think it will take quite some time to

fully recover, but God is good!

I was so blessed to open the curtain to her pre-op room yesterday

to see my oldest son holding her hand and praying with her while

the tears rolled gently down her cheeks. I am so thankful to have

children that care and who serve our amazing God!

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I called mom this morning and finally got ahold of her after many ,many tries.

I had to end up calling the nurses station and talking to her. Told her I had

tried and tried to call my moms room , but no one was answering. She said

she would go check and see why she was not answering her phone.

She soon came back on the line and said she would put my call through to

moms room.  Mom answered the phone and I told her I had tried to call several

 times and it just rang and rang. I just about died laughing when she said, "your dad

 and I heard a phone ringing several times and thought it was in another room".

She said it was setting right behind her and one of them even made a

comment about someone getting a lot of calls and not answering their

phone!!!!!  so so funny!!

It has been an exhausting week, but God is good! Please continue to pray

for her full recovery and thank you for all your thoughts and prayers thus

 far!!