Day 100!!!

Today is day 100 of hospitals.  I know it probably sounds odd, but I am so thankful to God for those 100 days!  I know He is in control and will see us through. 

Well I got a little vacation from blogging, thank you Drew.

I was very frustrated with the Mayo Clinic situation.  I was hoping they would be the answer for us.  As I have calmed down I now realize they could still be our answer, as Mayo requested that U of M do some tests that hadn’t been done and that the testing will be done at Mayo.  I know that God is in control and I think this was His answer, as I was worried about being so far away from Drew and now we won’t be any further apart.

Sunday was a good day for Tracy too.  I have met a family from another unit and the son (Cory) came down to visit on Sunday afternoon.  As Cory came in he said hello to Tracy and she said hello back to him and asked him how he was.  Then Cory said that he was fine and asked how she was?  Tracy responded with “I’m so, so”.  And Cory said that she looked really good, which she did.  Tracy then said thank you to him.  Drew and I were astonished with what had just happened. 

It had been a difficult day for me up to that point.  I hadn’t slept well Saturday night, which always leads to rough and emotional day the next day and combine that with Drew leaving too.   But that short little conversation with Cory cured a lot of my emotions but not my sleeplessness.

Drew left around 4:00PM to head home for the week and I headed back to the hotel to rest for a while.  I returned to Tracy’s room around 6PM and stayed and read to her until around 9:30 that night.

Sunday night was another sleepless night for me as I couldn’t get to sleep and when I did, it was short lived as I woke up around 4:45AM and didn’t go back to sleep until 6:30, then slept until 9AM.  I ate some breakfast, paid some bills and got some work done before heading over to Tracy’s room around 11:30. 

She was sound asleep as she had just finished an hour of physical therapy.  I relieved the sitter for lunch and then waited for another hour for Dr. Kim who wanted to meet with me to go over Tracy’s history and possible treatments for her.  She was late in showing up so I went to lunch only to get called back up to meet with her.  I have been very impressed with our past two doctors and Dr. Kim now makes it three in a row!

She is a very considerate and wants very badly to help Tracy.  As we finished talking Kristen our Occupational Therapist showed up around 3PM.  She worked with Tracy until around 4PM. 

Our sitter left right before Kristen showed up, so I became the sitter with Tracy until 7:45PM, when I was relieved by one of the nurse’s assistants for dinner.  I read some to Tracy but she mainly slept.  I can’t really blame her after all the workouts she had today.

I returned around 10:00PM and stayed with Tracy until 11:15.

Thanks again for everything that all of you are doing for us!

God Bless and “Never Give Up… Never Ever Give Up!”

Rob