Good Morning,
We hope you all are enjoying this long and hopefully relaxing holiday weekend.
This morning we covet your prayers as the weekend for my mom has not shaped into the weekend any of us expected (or hoped). On Friday, her stomach hurt for the majority of the day and kept her on the couch with her heating pad and pain medication. We enjoyed dinner together as a family before heading up to the cabin. She didn't feel up to eating much, but it was so good to sit around the table together. Upon arriving at the cabin, she headed to bed because the pain had gotten so severe. After a sleepless night (for my mom and dad) they decided early on Saturday morning (after consulting with an on-call doctor in the cities) to head to the local hospital thinking she might have a bowel obstruction. Upon arriving the ER doctor suggested several encouraging methods to get her tummy working as a CT scan was done showing no obstruction but some compaction...both she and my dad felt incredibly encouraged and she was content to stay at the hospital to catch up on rest and wait for the meds to work. As of this morning, she (and each of us) are still waiting for the meds to work. The pain meds are making her quite groggy and don't seem to be taking care of all of the pain. The meds for her constipation/bowel wake up call, have yet to do their job leaving us in what my dad calls "limbo land'. The doctor is scheduled to do rounds around lunch time and our prayer is that he will have a better plan or be able to find a comfortable window to get my mom back to the cities and in the care of her doctors. My dad mentioned needing a 'quaterback' right now, someone who will create a good solid plan to get my mom back on her feet so that her body is ready to start the chemo on Tuesday.
We are truly in the trenches of this journey this weekend...not understanding why, but believing that God's hand is with us...carrying my mom and each of us.
Thank you for walking alongside us...for taking time out of this holiday weekend to rally on my mom's behalf as we pray for so many different things.
May you be blessed.
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