God's timing

The phrase of the day is “God’s timing”.

A few things happened today that were just in the nick of time. Maria was at the hospital all day (and still there as I type this at 9:15 PM. Thank you Ria. We love you.)
So, I got a full report from her.
Here it is:

1) Dad had to go home to take care of some things yesterday. Carmen was there with Mom. When he returned, he saw that Mom was not on her iv antibiotics. (He has kept a record of her ALL her meds on a white board in her room every day.)
He asked the nurses about it and they said it was supposed to be stopped. Today, Mom’s leg was hurting a bit and Dad asked about it again. The nurses thought it was supposed to be stopped, but when Dad read the orders that the Oncologist had left with him, he saw that it wasn’t supposed to be. There was some confusion and the nurses said they wouldn’t be able to verify anything until the Dr.’s were out of surgery and that could take all day. Just as they were discussing it and feeling a bit concerned, in walked a Dr. The Dr. reviewed the orders and made the call so the antibiotic could get restarted right away. Her last dose was Wednesday 6:00 AM.
What an unexpected blessing. Thank you Lord for orchestrating that!

2) They had told Mom and Dad that they would start the chemo today. They stayed in the room all day waiting and waiting for the orders. Finally this evening, an Oncology resident came in and said that he didn’t want to start chemo until he had spoken with the Orthopedic Dr. Dr. Krueger has never been in Mom’s room past 11:00AM so they were fairly certain it would get put off until tomorrow yet again. Right then, Dr. Krueger walked in the room!
They went into the hall and talked and when they returned it was a go. Thank you Lord for sending Dr. Krueger at that specific time.
So, they came into the room tonight and gave Mom 4 pre-meds to help prepare her body to receive the chemotherapy. Two of them were anti -nausea meds.
They did tell her they were able to be more specific with the type of sarcoma she has. They are calling it a high grade spindle cell sarcoma.

There are two items that we would like to ask you to pray for specifically.
1) Her side effects could be: Confusion, blood in the urine, nausea, or heart problems. They did do a check on her heart and feel it is safe enough to proceed so that is good news. We would ask that you pray for her in regards to these side effects.

2) The Dr.’s also want to restart her anticoagulation meds and will give her one via her port tomorrow. They will then monitor her for 24 hours and see if she has any bleeding from her surgical wound site. If there is no problem, they will restart the oral warfarin/Coumadin.

Please pray for these two items and we will try to keep you posted as we go along. I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to know so many are lifting Mom and Dad up in prayer. Her stark white walls are getting covered over with all the beautiful cards so many of you have sent. She loves to look at them and they are covering over a particularly hideous piece of artwork on her wall of a distorted looking cat.

We love and appreciate you all.

Kimberly and family