I just re-read the previous entry about Katie’s heart, and I definitely think I was right about her operation being sooner rather than later. She called Dr. Crespo’s office today to let them know about more, and more often, flutterings, and she is also starting to feel a slight “pressure” in her chest. She says it comes and goes, but it is something she hasn’t felt before. She is also getting tired a lot more often. The doctor is on vacation, but his secretary will send him the information and get back to us about what he wants Katie to do. I have a feeling he will order the stress test, then possibly another Echo, and we’ll see where she stands.
It’s such a wait-and-see time right now. I hate that she has to go through this, but she has the best attitude. As we were talking this morning, she said that even though she’s facing something huge, and something she’s never faced before, she’s not nervous about the outcome. She has such incredible faith.
God’s timing is amazingly awesome. She was in Eastport (Maine) all last week with All Soul’s Church on their mission trip and she felt fine. She’s home less than a week and all this starts up. Of course, I was not worried with her being down there, either, as there are many doctors who go on the mission trips, so I know she was in good hands. However, if she would have started the symptoms down there it would have taken her and at least one other person away from the good they were accomplishing over there (it’s Downeast, so both “down” and “over” are the correct compass points from Bangor).
I wish the doctor’s office would call tomorrow and let us know what’s happening so we can get her scheduled for……something; either the stress test, the appointment with the surgeon, an echo…..anything just so I feel like I’m doing something instead of waiting. Well, I guess I am doing something in that I’m already looking into getting her involved at the YMCA aquatics heart fitness class….along with praying, praying, and more praying.
I don’t know if what I do would exactly be classified as “praying” in the traditional sense—it’s more like an ongoing informal conversation with God as opposed to a “traditional” prayer. I don’t know if I even know how to have a traditional form of prayer. I view God as so much a part of me and such a part of my family that to think of being formal with Him is strange. That certainly doesn’t mean I don’t honor and respect Him, because I absolutely do, but I love that I can speak to Him at all times.
Katie, I love you so, so, so much.
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