January 2. 2008
Today my Mom came home on my birthday! It is so good to have her home. It is not going to be easy. At the time of this post she is not able to do anything for herself. She is dependant solely upon us for everything. We know this is NOT a permanent situation. We know and trust God has healed my Mom and we are waiting on the recovery. In the worlds eye view they would disagree but we do not look at things in the world's perspective. We look at things in God's perspective! We are told that ANYTHING we ask in Jesus name that he would do it if we have faith. We know there is NOTHING too hard for God. I have complete trust in God and know he has heard our prayers. I know God will NOT let us down. If I have learned anything from this time is that Satan will do whatever it takes to wear us down and lose our faith in God. Not going to happen here. I will continue to post when I have time to keep everyone updated.
January 4, 2008
After I had only been to bed for about 2 hours my Dad called me this morning. My Mom's vent was running low on Bottled Sterile water and they doctors office said Dad could not use distilled water. My brother was gone and would not be back till after 3:00 pm. Dad said her vent would last till about noon and then he would be calling 911. Apparently their doctor had called in a prescription that morning for the sterile water. I got up and went to the doctors office to pick up the prescription and take it to the down stairs pharmacy. When I got to the pharmacy they did not carry it and sent me to the home health care in the building. When I got there they said they did not carry it I would just have to call around to find it. I went back up to the doctors office and told them this. The receptionist told me I would just have to call around to the pharmacies or go to a medical supply place. By this time I was getting mad. There was long line standing behind me at this time. I said " Look! We are running on a time limit here. This should have been supplied to my Dad before they left the hospital and My Mom's machine is going to be running out of sterile water and then we are going to be calling 911." Her reply was that I felt like this was the hospital's responsibility I should take it up with them. Did I want to have her call around to find it for me? I was furious ... I said don't you have some of this sterile water back in your offices that you could give me to tide us over till we find it somewhere? She went in the back and came out with two tiny (6 oz) bottles and said this was all they had.
After this I went to my parents house to give Dad the prescription and the bottles of water from the doctors office. I stayed with my Mom while my Dad went to Freeland & Brown to find the water. He got there and they would not take the prescription by his medical and he told them he had to have it and would just pay for it out of his own pocket. For a liter bottle it was over $7.00 a bottle. (4 bottles costing over $28) When Dad got back I helped him turn her. (She has to be turned every 2 hours)
By the time this was all over I was physically sick from all the stress that Satan had dumped in my lap.
When I got home I couldn't go back to sleep until after 1:00 pm. Then I laid down and Ken's phone ringing woke me up. So sleep was not on the schedule for today. Ever been so tired you wanted to sleep but just couldn't fall asleep? Later that night I had Ken pray for me to sleep and be strengthened tomorrow.
February 1, 2008
My Mom went back in the hospital mid January. She was scheduled to go into the hospital on a Monday to wean her off the vent but she had to be taken by ambulance that Sunday because she was stiffening up and making the alarms go off on her vent. As it turns out she was letting us know something was wrong. She has a bad urinary tract infection , which home health care should have caught. We had told them her urine had proteins in it and they said it was nothing to worry about. She also has pneumonia in her right lung. They also did a brain wave test and said they felt she had several mini strokes.
About 4 days ago the doctor said he did not feel she could be weaned off the vent and do well. This doctor is not a Christian because he does not like for you to talk about the Lord healing. He gets very uncomfortable and tries to stop you from what you are talking about and just does not want to hear it. That does not stop us from telling him what we believe though. He said he would try because it is our wishes. We have put our faith and trust in God and Mom has been doing great weaning off the vent. All vitals look good and she is getting stronger everyday.