Monday, June 6, 2011
Keeping Our Heads Above Water
These last three weeks have been an emotional roller-coaster. My Mom had an emergency appendectomy on May 16th which in normal circumstances she would have been home in probably a couple of days. Once she was in there they found an abscess that had been leaking so she was filled with gangrene in her abdomen. They also found a serious heart condition which is going to need intervention. She spent 17 days in the ICU and now she is finally in a regular room. I have cried many times and then a ray of hope will shine through and I have strength again. I also know The Lord is the great physician and everything happens through him. She is acutally doing better and we hope to have her home possibly this week. She will then have to be home a few weeks to make absolutely sure she is over the infection and has enough strength to withstand the cardiac cath she needs done because we are probably looking at a pacemaker/stent or valve replacement which can be risky with a weak pumping heart. Please pray for her and also my dad because he has been on a roller-coaster also. I am helping out as much as I can with laundy/shopping/mail etc.. and so are my brother and sister and her family. It is hard to manage two households and work ten hour days with a toddler but we are managing and this too shall pass. We are just thankful she is alive.
On a brighter note-Miles had an awesome birthday. He actually just got to open another package last weekend from his foster family in Korea. He loved his gifts. Porroro The Penguin is a popular cartoon character in Korea and we had bought him a car that moves all over the floor and plays music when we were there and gave it to him for Christmas. He now has been sleeping with his Porroro doll and looking at his Porroro book. THANKS to our Korean family for the nice surprise. It was so thoughful. We are enjoying all the pictures of the family and all their activities. We always show Miles the blog when new pics are added. He got his first taste of sprinkler activity for the season and let me say he went nuts. He and his cousin Brody had a ball and it was hard to tear them away. Looking forward to much more water fun this summer. Hope everyone has a great week.
