God's Sense of Humor

I am so glad God has an infinite sense of humor when it comes to me... truly.  I can be such a putz of kingdom kid at times. Let me explain....


Today I received a call from my urologist specialist's office. I was told that they got a call from Oklahoma Surgical Hospital and they were bumping my surgery due to a scheduling snafu to.... January 5th.  I broke down in tears... I will confess that.  I was a blubbering idiot. It was a knee-jerk reaction. I am not proud of that fact at all.  Through the tears the nurse said she would work on things and get back with me. I was just so looking forward to not hurting anymore and getting this annoying tube out of my back. I was disappointed, distraught, dismayed, annoyed and forgetting who my real Daddy is. 


After talking to Roy for a bit, I calmed down and then prayed. I should have prayed first.. why is hindsight always 20/20?  I have no problem hitting my knees FIRST when it comes to my husband or children. Why is it when it comes to me, I panic? That is so not my character at all. This is something I will work on and renew my mind to. 


A few hours later, Lynn called back from the doctors office letting me know that my blood tests that were taken at yesterday's pre-op (for the original Nov 29th surgery) showed that I was bottoming out on potassium again... so low that if I were to throw up, I was to go straight to the ER. They called in the meds and I started taking them immediately. Had I not gone in yesterday, I would be a very very ill lady right now. With that extreme low potassium level, they would not be able to do the surgery on the 29th anyway. They require a normal range for 10 days in a row.


God already knew this and was going before me... preparing the way for me. Can't you see him up in Heaven smiling and shaking his head and chatting up Jesus, "That girl of ours... when will she learn?"


So now my surgery has been rescheduled to December 12 at noon at St. John's Medical Center. They too have a great robotics department there as well. I am excited! I will be well on the mend by Christmas too. I am so blessed.


In the meantime, I am already starting to feel better. Now on antibiotics and the potassium... amazing difference. I even had an appetite for dinner tonight. 


The girls are taking care of Thanksgiving dinner (with a little direction) and the prep tonight smells wonderful in here!!!  Caleb is taking direction from the girls with helping with brawn things... moving, unloading, carrying...  and then tomorrow night they begin to decorate for Christmas. They know how much I LOVE Christmas. 


I Love my God and my family. I am the most blessed woman alive. 

Signed... a Muse of the Remnant  (who is still learning...)

Kidney Stones and Other Fun Stuff ~

I thought I would get everyone up-to-date on the recent happenings with me :o)

At the end of September I found out that I had a 2”x4” smooth kidney stone lodged in my left kidney, along with a few smaller ones. Aimee has affectionately named it “Brutus.”  I met up with some new doctors at Urologic Specialists of Oklahoma. They said due to the size of Brutus, it gave them limited choices and would need to perform surgery on October 19^th.  I check into St. Francis that morning and was prepped for surgery that has 2 parts. 

First was to insert a tube into my left kidney thorough my back (I was completely sedated) then about an hour later off to regular surgery to retrieve Brutus and his buddies.  Doctor was able to remove the smaller ones in the lower lobe of the kidney and then began chipping away at Brutus. I guess Brutus did not like this and decided to shoot itself up to where he could no longer be reached unless they repunctured my kidney and when around ribs and possibly thorough a lung.  Doctor decided that was not the best for me so they finished up and sent me to recovery.

A few humorous things… since my bilateral vocal cord paralysis, I snore (quite loudly) involuntarily when I am asleep. This really scared the anesthesiologist, I heard. Roy calmed him down though. During regular surgery time, I had a tube down my throat so I didn’t entertain them there… BUT I guess I did in recovery.  To the extent that I so vaguely remember the head nurse marching some older lady up to me to apologize to me for making comments about my snoring. I thought that was hysterical. During my stay at St. Francis, in the middle of the night, I was told some of the nurses would peek in to see who was snoring so loudly.  So glad I could entertain everyone. Hahaha.

After surgery I spent a little over 4 days at St. Francis, being released the following Monday. Seems my potassium levels were not cooperating. All is fine now with that.  I am at home recovering, still with the tube in my back, but it is capped and Roy takes very good care of it seeing that I cannot reach it or even see it. I am so thankful for him!

I was told that they would have to do a different procedure to retrieve Brutus now. It is a robotic laparoscopic surgery where they will go thru the tummy this time. Oh joy. Hahaha.  We received the date of the next surgery – November 29^th - longer away than I would like, but I trust in God that he has it then for a specific purpose. This time I will be at the Oklahoma Surgical Hospital at 81^st and Lewis. It used to be called the City of Faith years ago.

People ask if I am in pain… Yes, to some extent. I still have Brutus in the left and a smaller cousin in the right kidney that we will have to deal with when I heal up from this.  Plus the tube out of my back is not really all that comfortable, but it is tolerable. I tire very easily too, but my stamina is building up now day by day. I actually cooked a couple of times this week, and went out with Roy to dinner one night.  Tonight we did go to Wal-Mart for about 35 minutes and that really wore me out, and when we got home, I fell sound asleep for a few hours while Roy prepared a wonderful dinner of pork chops and mashed taters and veggies. I am so thankful for him.

As I always say… None of this has taken God by surprise or snuck up on Him. I know that He is fully in control of all of this, orchestrating every move. I also believe that if God can turn water into wine, he can turn a kidney stone to water. :o)   The battle is real, and not for the cowardly. I am proud to be in God's Army, and that He is my Commander and Chief.  Right now my orders are to Rest and Rejuvenate.

Signed... A Muse of the Remnant