Teary day

Everyone has to have there ups and downs, and today was Cindy's day. She is just discouraged today, is just so sick of being sick and wants to live a normal life with her family and is so hoping and praying that will happen and wondering if it ever will. So there were quite a few tears shed today, and when she cries, I cry too. It's hard to see your child have to endure so much, even if they are grown up. She was just feeling very isolated up there. She was better when I left her with Kyle's sister and daughter.

The CT scan showed some fluid in her lungs, under her lungs and in her belly area. So the chest tube didn't get pulled out yet today, and that tube causes alot of pain. There is a little concern about pneumonia, so she is trying to sit in the chair most of the time and trying to walk once an hour if someone is there to help her. There are too many tubes and machines for her to walk by herself and the nurses are busy. She does look better every day which is a very positive thing.

The neurosurgeon was also in this morning and said she will have to be in the hospital another 2 weeks before they can do anything with the shunts which also didn't help make her day. We were concerned when he started talking about removing one of the shunts - he doesn't know what she has been through to this point. There are still no headaches at all which is so wonderful and both the shunts are working. Cindy did just call and noticed that one of the external tubes from her shunt is leaking, which isn't good, that could contaminate more so the neurosurgeon was coming back to look at it.

The Drs are all threatening to put a NG tube into her stomach to feed her, and she is just as determined to not get one. She is just really struggling with eating, nothing tastes good and her stomach is just upset yet, like eating when you have the stomach flu, she says. The nurse told me they would get her anything she wanted, even if they had to go to the store to get it.

Please keep Cindy uplifted in your prayers, He is still the GREAT PHYSICIAN, and we know that if it is in His will, she will be healed, and we desperately hope and pray that is what will happen. Please continue to pray also for Kyle and the kids. Kyle has just been so amazing these last couple years through all of Cindy's problems. He is caring for Cindy, the kids, the house and working, not many husbands would be able to what he has had to. God sure gave Cindy a great mate!!

Kathy