4:45PM. There is a very good possibility Katie will be going home tomorrow!! Yay! She is doing very, very well. Dr. Clough is so pleased with her progress.
I came over this morning, but she was just starting to fall asleep after having eaten breakfast and going for a walk, so I left to run to the store for stupid groceries (I hate grocery shopping), then I came back after she had lunch. She was sitting in her favorite (only) chair, then she and I went for a nice, relatively long walk around a huge square that makes up this part of the the fourth floor. A much longer walk than just around the nurse’s station. She didn’t have a walker or any other type of help, and she didn’t lean on me once. When we got back, she said her legs were very tired, but overall it was nice to get up and move.
For some reason, she said they didn’t practice the steps with her, but later the nurse said she’d be fine with the steps once she got home. Just don’t go up and down a lot for a while.
This has been the infamous “Day 3” post-op, which she had been warned about. The day of hormones deciding to figure out if they want to stabilize or not (they usually do, but not without a fight); the day of realization that the operation really-n-truly happened; the day of still in a lot of pain, but getting used to the pain, so the pain comes in more crashing waves than a constant companion (although the underlying achy-pain is still there at all times); and it’s the day of tears for seemingly no reason, yet for every reason. As the wonderful Nurse Michelle told her this morning…it’s like being an adolescent all over again. So, not a particularly cheerful day. At least it was expected, so that didn’t add to the general angst.
It’s almost 5pm, dinner time. Alex didn’t come with me today as he and Bobby took a run to Farmington so he can get most of his stuff moved into his dorm room early. College starts Sept 1. They are going to bring me something to eat when they get back to Bangor. Good, since I’m really hungry.
Reverend Haddix from All Souls Congregational Church (the church Katie attends; I’ll explain the reason for different churches in a different post) just stopped in to visit and pray. That was so nice. I love the people at All Souls. I love the people at Bangor Baptist. It’s great to have a church or two that are so wonderful. Well, her dinner is not here yet, so I’ll explain the church-thing now. When we first moved up here, we attended Bangor Baptist (BBC). As the kids got older, there was a lot of “fitting in” problems because the kids at BBC only seemed to like to gravitate to the other ones who also attended the school attached to it. I wanted them to be in a church that was more “kid friendly”, so I found All Souls, where I loved the people immediately. Katie and Alex loved it there, but my heart-worship was with BBC; once Katie graduated and went off to college, Alex and I started back at BBC. Katie prefers All Souls, so now Alex and I go to BBC, and Katie goes to All Souls. Their friend Bobby has started attending All Souls, so he takes her. I am comfortable with both churches; I feel so blessed to have a church home at two places.
The best part of all this is that over the years BBC has become more kid-friendly/teen-friendly….to the point now of where I wouldn’t dream of leaving if they were still young. And….All Souls has become much, much more “conservative” in their theology. Congregational churches are not known for their “conservative” thinking, but All Souls is like an island unto itself. I have to say I love both churches, but I love, love, love BBC and the contemporary worship music.
So, we are a family blessed with friends and “church family” from two awesome churches. Christ is our rock and foundation and our Savior, so that’s the bottom line and the best part.
5:12pm. Hopefully, Katie’s dinner will be here any minute, so I’ll close this computer for a while. Katie just called for some more pain medication; it’s been a very busy day.
Til later…….
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