I Love My Husband
Let me start this long post out with a very big heart felt "THANK YOU" for all the prayers and good vibes/thoughts that flowed right to us this week. Amazing power was occurring!!!! I.. we were blessed beyond measures. And I am not over stating this .. at all! God was winking at me the moment we arrived and till the day we left. I hope I can put into words just how amazingly blessed we are in soooo many ways. It humbled me, and it has changed me for the rest of my life!!!!
Monday we spent most of the afternoon in the hospital with talks to doctors, more tests.
Stressed to the max..me, but my man..calm as can be lol... yin and yang!
We had a hotel room just 2 blocks from the hospital. Monday night we stayed up too late chattering away in bed, laughing, crying, serious talks.
The day has come, 4:30am, we walk to the hospital. At 5:15 they take me man back and prep him.
I thought it would be a good time for more coffee and some food. I found my way to the cafeteria and enjoyed my hot coffee and biscuit. I just had to have a cig. I walked outside and wow....The snow was falling heavily. So pretty and people seemed to be amazed at the sight. Taking pictures of the snow and all.
No smoking anywhere around hospital, well... I walked a spell and looking around where to lite my cig. I saw a lady, my age, bundled up and waving at me to come over there. Strange but I went to where she was.
She said she was watching me trying to hide to lite my cig... she needed company and she thought she would have a buddy in crime.lol…
She held her hand out and said... HI, I am Debbie. OMG... My name is Debbie.
I knew then this was meant to be. She was chattering away, like us Debbies do ;-) And her story began. Her grandson, 8 was life flighted Monday here for his dying heart. They would be waiting here till a heart transplant could occur. Knowing it could be awhile too in this waiting game. She was staying at the Ronald McDonald house.
At that moment, my worries disappeared. Everything seemed so small to her sorrow and worry. We finished our coffees and 2 cigarettes, snowed covered too boot. One God's wink.
At 9:10 Doctor said my husband was smiling...huh... The minute the doctor placed his new heart valve in the pressure in his heart instantly was gone. He seemed amazed at it all. He was very pleased. Me too!!!
My husband had to be totally still, laying flat, not moving for 6 hrs so his arteries could close right. My own chest was swelled with emotions. God is good!
I stayed there with him till he got into his own room. When I was walking back to the hotel, I cracked with tears of relief. I didn't care what anyone thought... I reached my arms high and shouted.... Thank you!!!
When I entered the hotel, I heard this woman crying, saying... I don't need this now!!! Please...
I came up to her and asked, can I help. She looked so tired, ill. Bags around her feet she was tripping over and crying... I need to get into my room and can't! Her card/key was just turned around. I opened her door and helped her with her bags. She started to cry and release why... She is a cancer patient, had chemo today plus 2 pints of blood transfusion. Could not go home because of all the snow and bad roads.
I told her I wish her a good night sleep ... wished her blessings.
Tuesday night, I slept very little. I circled my room for a bit and finally laid down and passed out.
Wednesday, the next morning I met the same woman as she was leaving her room. She said... I wanted to thank you for helping me and wishing me a good night. She said she slept like a baby. She hugged me and wished me a good day. And ask me if I knew of the movies God Wink on Hallmark... :-) Oh yeah! I was experience one... right then and there and told her the story of Debbie and how God winked at me at that moment.
I went and had breakfast in the cafeteria and went out to have my smoke. I met up with Debbie at the crosswalk. Go figured. I smiled instantly. We walked the block with coffee and cigs in hand. Her grandson was being prepped at the moment for his new heart!!!!!! She cried for her grandson and the child that died. It normally is a long wait for a donor. God winks again.
As I started down my husband's hall, nurses were telling me.. We all have a nickname for your husband...~ Marathon Man. When we told him to start walking to get his strength back and to see how his new valve was doing... He made laps after lap around on the floor, last night and first thing this morning with no pain and blood pressure perfect. They were amazed.
The doctor said in his 10years of doing this... my husband is breaking all expectations. He was astonished. He was being serious. Since my husband had been a health nut, riding a bike to work for 30 years and going to the gym every day of his adult life... Just witness to him how much difference it made..of course. But not for a 72 year old man... wow!! My husband was ready to go home if his Echo came back as good he thought but... he would be the first for him in his 10yrs of replacing a heart valve. But... I told him we lived in a holler, away from people, and 45 minute from a hospital. I said... keep him one more day … if anything did go wrong from his early release... I will know who to blame. He looked into my eyes and said.. I got you, I understand.
The marathon man and me walked the halls off and on most of Wednesday. Another Echo test, more blood pulled, and still everything was perfect!
Thursday we were out of there. It was so easy to drive out which was abnormal...lol.. No traffic, no nothing...Before I knew it we were back home. I defrosted some chili I made for this day... ate and by 7:30, both of us snuggled up and slept like that till this morning. It looked like we did not move a bit...lol..
I learned things in these few days that I will carry with me the rest of my life.... But that another post!
Monday we spent most of the afternoon in the hospital with talks to doctors, more tests.
Stressed to the max..me, but my man..calm as can be lol... yin and yang!
We had a hotel room just 2 blocks from the hospital. Monday night we stayed up too late chattering away in bed, laughing, crying, serious talks.
The day has come, 4:30am, we walk to the hospital. At 5:15 they take me man back and prep him.
I thought it would be a good time for more coffee and some food. I found my way to the cafeteria and enjoyed my hot coffee and biscuit. I just had to have a cig. I walked outside and wow....The snow was falling heavily. So pretty and people seemed to be amazed at the sight. Taking pictures of the snow and all.
No smoking anywhere around hospital, well... I walked a spell and looking around where to lite my cig. I saw a lady, my age, bundled up and waving at me to come over there. Strange but I went to where she was.
She said she was watching me trying to hide to lite my cig... she needed company and she thought she would have a buddy in crime.lol…
She held her hand out and said... HI, I am Debbie. OMG... My name is Debbie.
I knew then this was meant to be. She was chattering away, like us Debbies do ;-) And her story began. Her grandson, 8 was life flighted Monday here for his dying heart. They would be waiting here till a heart transplant could occur. Knowing it could be awhile too in this waiting game. She was staying at the Ronald McDonald house.
At that moment, my worries disappeared. Everything seemed so small to her sorrow and worry. We finished our coffees and 2 cigarettes, snowed covered too boot. One God's wink.
At 9:10 Doctor said my husband was smiling...huh... The minute the doctor placed his new heart valve in the pressure in his heart instantly was gone. He seemed amazed at it all. He was very pleased. Me too!!!
My husband had to be totally still, laying flat, not moving for 6 hrs so his arteries could close right. My own chest was swelled with emotions. God is good!
I stayed there with him till he got into his own room. When I was walking back to the hotel, I cracked with tears of relief. I didn't care what anyone thought... I reached my arms high and shouted.... Thank you!!!
When I entered the hotel, I heard this woman crying, saying... I don't need this now!!! Please...
I came up to her and asked, can I help. She looked so tired, ill. Bags around her feet she was tripping over and crying... I need to get into my room and can't! Her card/key was just turned around. I opened her door and helped her with her bags. She started to cry and release why... She is a cancer patient, had chemo today plus 2 pints of blood transfusion. Could not go home because of all the snow and bad roads.
I told her I wish her a good night sleep ... wished her blessings.
Tuesday night, I slept very little. I circled my room for a bit and finally laid down and passed out.
Wednesday, the next morning I met the same woman as she was leaving her room. She said... I wanted to thank you for helping me and wishing me a good night. She said she slept like a baby. She hugged me and wished me a good day. And ask me if I knew of the movies God Wink on Hallmark... :-) Oh yeah! I was experience one... right then and there and told her the story of Debbie and how God winked at me at that moment.
I went and had breakfast in the cafeteria and went out to have my smoke. I met up with Debbie at the crosswalk. Go figured. I smiled instantly. We walked the block with coffee and cigs in hand. Her grandson was being prepped at the moment for his new heart!!!!!! She cried for her grandson and the child that died. It normally is a long wait for a donor. God winks again.
As I started down my husband's hall, nurses were telling me.. We all have a nickname for your husband...~ Marathon Man. When we told him to start walking to get his strength back and to see how his new valve was doing... He made laps after lap around on the floor, last night and first thing this morning with no pain and blood pressure perfect. They were amazed.
The doctor said in his 10years of doing this... my husband is breaking all expectations. He was astonished. He was being serious. Since my husband had been a health nut, riding a bike to work for 30 years and going to the gym every day of his adult life... Just witness to him how much difference it made..of course. But not for a 72 year old man... wow!! My husband was ready to go home if his Echo came back as good he thought but... he would be the first for him in his 10yrs of replacing a heart valve. But... I told him we lived in a holler, away from people, and 45 minute from a hospital. I said... keep him one more day … if anything did go wrong from his early release... I will know who to blame. He looked into my eyes and said.. I got you, I understand.
The marathon man and me walked the halls off and on most of Wednesday. Another Echo test, more blood pulled, and still everything was perfect!
Thursday we were out of there. It was so easy to drive out which was abnormal...lol.. No traffic, no nothing...Before I knew it we were back home. I defrosted some chili I made for this day... ate and by 7:30, both of us snuggled up and slept like that till this morning. It looked like we did not move a bit...lol..
I learned things in these few days that I will carry with me the rest of my life.... But that another post!
