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...)
Isn't He amazing? Praying for you! Happy Thanksgiving!
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