April 14 – “Confusion”

Sounds like Uncle Jerry’s funeral will be sometime Thursday morning, with family visitation on Wednesday evening.  His son will get back in town today and they will finalize everything with Forest Park East. 

We had a bit of confusion yesterday regarding Mom.  Jennifer stayed the night with her and Chris was actually able to come to church, but she ended up on the phone texting all morning.  Seems the resident on Mom’s care team came by and said they might send her back home instead of the Meridian.  Now that didn’t make any sense because her potassium is still way out of whack.  She hasn’t been able to tolerate the IV because for one thing the potassium burns too bad, and for another, Mom’s veins have been poked so much they keep blowing out and clogging up the process.  The docs came by twice wanting to talk to us, so we headed back as soon as we could. 

It took us awhile to get there, though, because after church we went over to watch Cailyn so April could go get them some groceries.  Cailyn had been throwing up all night, and finally fell asleep around eight that morning.   Now throwing up is not good anytime, but in Cailyn’s case, any kind of being sick is just not good right now.  See, she is scheduled for tonsil/adenoid removal surgery on Wednesday.  That little one needs to stay healthy.

When we got to the hospital, Jennifer told us that the docs had returned again, but now it sounded like the faculty doc still seemed to want her to go to the Meridian after all, especially since Medicare covers it for 20 days.  Whew.  Confusing.  After that the bulk of the team apparently went home for the weekend, because they never came back.  Later on, though, the intern, whose name is Dr. Kelly by the way, came back.  He hadn’t been with the team earlier.  All he knew was that someone told him “the family has some questions.”  Chris filled him in on the confusion.  He came up with some medical jargon about potassium and assured us that she wasn’t going anywhere until that deficiency was cleared up.  Didn’t really answer the question about where she would be discharged, but I guess he did deal with the immediate “when.”  I think an adequate translation of his assessment of the situation would be … “Never mind.  See you tomorrow.”

1 Corinthians 14:33 says, “For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

Father, I thank you that in the midst of the disorder and confusion around us we can count on you for stability and peace.  Amen.