Sunday Update

The past four days have been a roller coaster ride; starting with getting David discharged from the skilled nursing facility, ride home and then fours hours later calling EMS to transport us to the ER, to being admitted into the hospital again. Lydia's post gave some of the details so I won't repeat them. After the transfusion, David's blood levels have stayed in a good range. There has been no more bleeding from the stoma. The wound VAC is working and David has not needed any pain medicine since the dressing change on Friday.

The equipment needed for the home wound VAC was ordered on Friday, so hopefully, it will arrive tomorrow. If it does, we will most likely get to go home. We will need a lot of help once we get home and will be taking people up on their offers to help. We are so very blessed to have such wonderful friends and church family. We will also have home health care coming for PT and OT, wound care, and some regular nursing, like blood draws, etc.

Please pray for David's continued healing from this surgery, that there will be no more issues with bleeding, that he will each day get a little stronger and be able to do a little more physically.

We thank God for His continued grace to us. I've had two dear friends who have lost their spouses to brain cancer each share with me that the time with their spouse was the most precious and the most awful at the same time. I agree. Awful because you are watching the one you love suffer and you are helpless to do anything about it. Precious because you get the opportunity to just sit and tell one another how much you love each other and how thankful you are that God brought you together. Just today David and I were talking about our wedding vows - " in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse.." and he said, "ours has been better than most". These are the precious moments that I will always cherish. What a wonderful gift God has given me these past seven months.

Awful and precious - may God be glorified in it all.

Pam