Thank you, Glen.
As you probably don’t know (in that I have not been on this sight long enough to recount all these things) my family and I have had something horrendous happen every Christmas season and it appeared that this year we finally made it through December un-scathed. But I guess not.
I have this sense that of all the miraculous events that had to fall into place for us to get out of Las Vegas just to get this far; that God didn’t bring us all the way to abandon us but there is a purpose in it that we do yet perceive.
Last night went like this: Sue was at our niece’s apartment when she got the news that she had to go to the hospital. She thought that something had happened to one of us and she was a wreck.
When she got there, they wanted to put an IV in hr but she did not understand why - and refused until she talked to a doctor to see what this was all about. Sue went to College to learn medical coding and worked at Sunrise Hospital for couple of years - so she understands the terminology.
What the deal is: is that she has a tumor on the brain close to the main artery from her heart. There is swelling around the tumor causing hydrocephalus (water on the brain). They wanted to reduce the swelling with steroids through IV - then do an MRI to get a better perspective in the problem.
The prognosis is that she could go into a coma at any time, or hemorrhage and basically that’s it for Sue.
She knows that this is cancer and she knows how unlikely she will survive treatment. She has opted to take a steroid orally and come home. She has agreed to go ahead with the MRI and has an appointment with a neurologist on the 4th.
So, we are needing to get our house in order as Sue is our sole source of transportation, does all the grocery shopping, foes most of the cooking, washing clothes, seeing that everyone has their proper medication, and as care-given signs John’s and Julie’s Federal and State checks. All that has to be changed over to me or some-one.
I don’t know what to think other than I am not believing God has brought us all this way for nothing.
Shalom.
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