Surgery tomorrow in Dallas ....

Today is the 300th blog post ……

Surgery time is 3pm tomorrow ….. we get into Dallas at 9am and don’t have to be at the surgery center until 1pm, so we’ll have plenty of time to do something (not sure what yet). It is going to be a long fourteen hours without food or water! Once the IV starts about 1:30 …. that will help. It is somewhat like a “liquid lunch.” This is a very late surgery time, so I am likely his last “case” for the day on Thursday …. pray that he isn’t tired!

I have a few things to pack still tonight, but overall I’m ready to go and get things moving forward. The pain has continued to progress, so it is just time to get on with it. I’m trading the pain for a cast, so the cast is looking okay at the moment. We fly out at 7am tomorrow morning, but need to be at the airport really early due to the Spring Break crew.

Pray for the following ….
- Wisdom & surgical skill for Dr. Curry
- No nausea or anesthetic issues; might be able to do a local only.
- Safety with traveling
- If a cause is to be known in all of this, that it will be obvious.
- Healing – for no wound issues to occur
- Stamina – mom & JE
- That our actions & words would glorify Him.

We arrive home early afternoon on Saturday and then I’ll update the blog. Assuming all goes well, I’m planning to be back at work on Monday (will sit all day – no worries). I scheduled extra staff next week, so if I need to be more at my desk that is possible.

I am a “wish granter” for Make-A-Wish and am working on two family cases at the moment with just heart wrenching medical stories. I’m continually reminded how much worse this could be ….. I’m not on a ventilator, don’t have a feeding tube, don’t need a special van to get around & we’re not traveling for daily chemo treatments. Obviously, I want my foot to get better and to get back to walking better, but it easy to forget that what I’m dealing with is tiny compared to some other things.
I still have my foot …. we need to see if we can get back to where we were before & hopefully it will be permanent. I still have faith that it is possible …. keep believing with us!

Ready for the next step tomorrow and we’ll take it one day at a time.

Love & hugs,
jenny