One Surgery, Two Recoveries

Thursday, my middle son came home hugging his belly.

Friday, he had emergency surgery to remove his appendix.

It’s been a little crazy here.

This is him in his hospital room.  See the smile?  That’s the smile of a boy who finally got to eat and was given pizza, cookies, chips, a brownie and a milk shake for his first meal!  Lol! 

He’s home now, recovering, doing homework, sleeping and playing his DS Lite.  He goes back to the Surgeon Thursday for a follow up, and we expect to have permission to go back to school Monday.

I learned a few things this week.

• A parent is never prepared for their child to have emergency surgery.  Even if they sit through hours of testing with an OR staff on alert.
• Phone calls before the surgery are really really hard to make without tears.
• There is never enough time to hug in the surgery prep area.  But praying helps.
• The waiting room is the loneliest place in the world, no matter how many people surround you.
• Hearing a friend’s voice on the phone is like catching a line in a stormy sea.
• You can read the same page in a gripping novel 57 times and still not know what you read.
• Sleeping isn’t sleeping when you’re lying in the bed next to your son in a hospital room.
• It’s a wonderful, wonderful thing to know God is in control.
• It’s impossible to answer your son when he says the next day, “I’m having fun, mom.  Are you?”
• He’ll likely recover before me.

Thank you Lord, for protecting him.  For letting us catch it before it ruptured.  For giving him such a great attitude. For friends who pray and help.

It was a scary time.  Thank you for walking us through.

I’ll be manning the DVD player this week, and snuggling on the couch with my two youngest boys.  And you know?  That might be all I get done.

Have a great week, friends!  I hope you find some thankfulness to unwrap!  :)

This update goes hand in hand with Gratituesday,  30 minute challenge,  Tuesday Unwrapped, so I’m linking up.