DAY 50

For a day that started out so good... it sure ended with all kinds of opportunities to teach others about grace, patience, long suffering... Micah comes through again shining for Jesus!!
Well, let me back up and tell you about our day today!

We (Becky, not Micah) had 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night!! (CORRECTION: Micah only got 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep) No interruptions from nurses! No interruptions from Mother Nature! no interruptions of any kind!! It was wonderful!

I left at 6:30 a.m. to run back to the apartment to get cleaned up. I got back to the hospital at 8:30 a.m. expecting an uneventful day... until the doctor came in and informed us Micah would be having a colonoscopy (sp?) TODAY to find out why Micah was experiencing Diarrhea every half hour. Lucky Micah!!

We have gone from good to bad in mere hours! Now the afteroon was all about getting ready for the colonoscopy (what a nightmare!!) and there is nothing funny about someone trying to get inside through the back door that is clearly an EXIT ONLY! Imagine the worse and that about tells you those next few hours! After he was violated and abused now of course the actual procedure was done... AGAIN, EVERYONE IGNORED THE EXIT ONLY SIGN!! Well, Micah got back to his room now in more pain and HUNGARY to find he had no dinner... his dinner was missing! (NO! I know you are looking at me!! I DID NOT EAT IT!) It was never brought to his room so the nurses went out looking for it! Dinner was brought to him at 8:00 p.m. Micah ate it very fast and only said, "it's a good thing pasta tastes good cold as well as hot." Micah's day is not over yet!! The best way to end a day is with a game of TAG!

It is always a challenge for the nurse to catch a vein for an IV. It always takes a number of tries that require a new hole and a new location... first left arm then again and then the right,... Not because it was done successfully, but because his veins were playing hard to get. All of you who get daily blood tests know all about that sort of thing. They say that between the number of times he has blood draws and IVs and the meds being put into him by IV, his veins are getting tough. Did I mentioned yet that Micah hates when they chase the veins with a needle! :-(

What a perfect way to end his day at midnight or start his Wednesday at 12:01! The good news is that nurses on duty had sent for the heavy artillery with this particular nurse (thus the late hour) because they knew Micah was hard and getting harder. Micah needed to be all ready with the IV tube in before the scheduled 4:00 am antibiotic infussion and they didn't want to be playing cat and mouse or TAG at that hour. It was a good thing we got her!! (Thank you, Lord, for gifted people! :-) He could have had more bandaids up and down the arms by the time they were finished instead of only 4 and maybe THEY could have STILL been trying to TAG a vein! It's done now and this IV port will be good for another 3 or 4 days and hopefully we will be out of here before they need to do that again! (And now, please Lord, give him the rest his body so badly needs.)

Until next time... This is Becky signing off!