Well Jane is finally getting some rest. After being in pain all day and night yesterday... then greeting Isaac when he walked in the door at 3 am by throwing up... I finally took her to the emergency room in Bluffton this morning. We got there around 8 am.
We chose Bluffton because it's a smaller hospital, plus her regular doctor practices there. And it was worth it. She was the only one in ER when we arrived, and everyone there was super, super nice. It wasn't long before they were full though.
They determined early on that it was her gallbladder, and started her on demerol. It worked better than what she had been taking, and she was able to get some rest in our nice ER room. I think a guy died while we were there though. :(
The surgeon finally came and saw her around 11 and determined the gallbladder needed to come out soon, so they checked her into the hospital. Around 1 pm she finally got a regular room. And - get this - they put her in the pediatrics department, and she's the only person in the whole ped's area. It is really nice. Not only a private room, but a private stinkin' wing of the hospital!
Once in the room they started her on morphine. Yep, that did the trick. She was out like a light all afternoon. She finally came to in the evening and we visited some. Isaac came and we got something to eat, then I left around 8 pm.
Surgery is scheduled for around noon tomorrow (Tuesday). They hope to remove the gallbladder laparascopically (which works 90% of the time). They said there is a possibility they may need to do an endoscopy if there are any blockages. But they can do that later.
This was a kinda long day, but it was actually quite peaceful (for me). Even though the nurses kept telling me to turn on the tv, I didn't. I either napped myself, or I read. I was able to read James Emery White's great little book "A Mind for God." I will be blogging about it later, but the basic idea is that Christians need to learn to THINK. We need to seek wisdom rather than merely acquiring information. Anyway, there's lot's to think on for a book of only 114 pages. I wish more people would write shorter books like this too.
I also started in on Bill Hull's "The Complete Book of Discipleship," but didn't get too far. And I did about 6 pages of handwritten blogging/journaling.
Welp, I am beat. Tomorrow could be a long day too. Peace, peeps.
5 comments:
I don't know you and even less Jane (other than what you blog) but my prayers are with her (I know you'll be OK! :o).
Please let Jane know that I'm thinking of her and praying for her.
If you would like me to drop anything off or run any errands or bring dinner or anything else - please let me know.
Shelly
Thanks Jim.
Thanks too, Shelly. I'll let her know; and I'll let you know if there's anything we need. It will help that Isaac is on spring break this week though, and he'll be home mostly reading books anyway.
It was amazing how different it was to see a calm peace come over Jane from this morning to this afternoon. I was thinking of all kinds of "church" applications. You know, like maybe we should all take morphine or something. :) Well, I did think some serious thoughts about it too.
There are all kinds of herbs and aroma therapy and meditation techniques that work really well... so long as you also take morphine while you're doing that hippy crap.
Best of luck to Jane for a rapid recovery. Tell her to get an order of morphine to go when she leaves.
I just wanted to say basically the same thing that Jim said. My prayers are with you both.
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