(Good morning Terra!!!!!! I just received your text as I was about to send you one. But, since you said you were going to read the blog….I love you and now you know the reason Katie and I were on your mind!! God is so awesome; I had just prayed, and then I get your text. Thanks!!)
My wonderful, God-sent cousin from Indiana (Terra!!!!) just sent me a text saying Katie and I were on her heart to pray about, but she wasn’t sure why. I had just left the hospital chapel, where I had gone to talk and thank God, when I got her text. God is so awesome.
Katie is in getting her EET, the esophageal echocardiogram…not sure what all the letters are for, but as of yesterday it has been referred to as EET. Once finished with that, she will then go right in for the heart catheter. Between the two “tests”, it will give Dr. Crespo and Dr. Clough a better idea of what’s happening. It will be a few hours til I see Katie again so I’m in the cafeteria, happily writing.
Yesterday Katie and I were over here for the “pre-test tests”, but as it turned out it was just an extended version of paperwork, seeing some nurses, the Physicians Assistant, more questions, blood pressure, weight, more blood work, and……that was about it. They explained what was going to happen today, and that’s when we found out that there would be the heart cath in addition to the EET (or maybe it’s a TEE….no, I’d remember that because it would remind me of tea, which I love to drink. So, it must be EET, which sound like tweet, as in a bird, and I love the sound of birds in the morning….so…..)
This morning we had to be here at….drum roll please…..6AM!!!! AND….I was actually awake by 5AM!!!!! Luckily, we only live a few streets from the hospital.
I’m not worried that the doctor will find anything, since we already know what there is to find, but I’m concerned that he won’t find it as bad as we think it is and will say she can go another 6 months like this. Even though she has the option to do the replacement when she wants, it would just seem so odd for them to say it’s not any worse than it was in May and yet she’s been feeling worse.
Katie and I have both said that we wouldn’t be surprised if they looked in there and decided it had to be done immediately. It’s better to be prepared mentally for something like that than to be surprised by it. Yesterday, the PA told us, as I guess she does everyone, that Dr. Clough could schedule it in a few weeks, next week, or Friday. Then she looked at us as though waiting for a stunned reaction, but she seemed pretty stunned when we said “OK.” I’m thinking she meets with a lot of upset people when she says that. However, we know it’s all in God’s time, so we are not really in charge anyway.
We have a good friend who is a doctor; she teaches at Boston University now, too (she commutes every week!!). In one of the previous blogs I believe I mentioned her…she was Katie’s mentor at church, I clean her house, our kids are friends/graduated together, etc. Anyway, Katie called her last night to keep her updated, especially about the added news of the cath. Katie felt so much better after talking to her. She explained everything to Katie, and even though we had been told the exact same thing earlier in the day, somehow coming from Mary it’s better. We are so blessed to have the people in our lives that we do.
Well, now it’s time to wait until the doctor sees what’s going on so we’ll know when the surgery is.
Thinking of you today!
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