Some hospital-inspired thoughts.
Thankful for TWO YEARS of life for our baby girl with a heart condition. On Feb. 2nd, two years ago, we were put into the very room in ICU that we just vacated and told our little girl probably wouldn’t live more than a few weeks.
Thankful for hair. A lot of people remember Lucy from two years ago, or more recent stays, and everybody says the same thing: “Lucy! You’re so big! And you have so much HAIR!!” I love it. I’m glad to have hair, too. Mine’s growing out from a really short cut, and Lucy’s is just growing. I bend meekly to wash mine under the indifferent-pressure shower head, and Lucy gets hers washed every couple of days with a special waterless shampoo-in-a-shower-cap. (The beauty technology here is cutting-edge. That, and her oxygen tube doesn’t reach all the way into the bathtub.)
Thankful for fried zucchini and chocolate chip cookies: my favorite cafeteria fare. The chicken fried steak ain’t half bad, either. Lucy gets her fomula through the NG tube, but licked the flavor from slices of cucumber, pineapple, curly fries, and smoky almonds today! As James says, she is a recreational eater.
Thankful, as always, for kind, skilled Doctors and nurses.
Thankful for wireless internet and Netflix. (I’ve been watching my way through the BBC adaptations of the murder mysteries of P.D. James with Ken Marsdon as Adam Dalgleish. Who looks exactly like Ken Hennings.)
Thankful for a lullabies CD one of the nurses found for us to play during naptime.
Thankful for the Lord being here with us. Ps 39:10 even there Your hand shall lead me; and Your right hand shall hold me.
Thankful for the watercolor of a flower and a cross Sunday School craft that Lucy’s big sisters slipped into my bag to take with me. I found them when we unpacked and taped them on the door here. A little bit of Ab and Corrie art makes it feel like home. – Katie
I just had to comment that my family is thankfu,l too, for this milestone for Lucy. We have kept her in prayer almost from the first, certainly when we found out she was first in the hospital. May God continue to bless and hold your family.
Alyssa