If it's not sickness then it's a surgery! :)

I sit here praising the Lord for His amazing grace these last 12 hours. Last night I was still battling a fever and was unsure if I would be able to take Caleb for his surgery at 7 this morning. We had prayed that the Lord would make it clear and we believed it was best that Caleb go in if at all possible. I was just unsure how well I was going to be able to hold up. Bryan was worse than I was, so his taking him was out of the question!

My fever broke before I went to bed and, although it was a restless night, my fever did not return (and still hasn't!). I woke up feeling much better than I expected and with a cough that was manageable. PRAISE THE LORD!!!! Caleb and I left for the surgery center at 6:45 am while the rest of the family (minus Samuel)was getting another dose of cough medicine and Tylenol by doctor dad. I'm pretty sure he self-medicated, too!:)

The surgery went well. Caleb showed no signs of fear as they took him away for surgery. The doctor said that the nurses didn't want to "put him to sleep" because they were having so much fun with him in the surgery room. Only Caleb could continue to be a "ham" a few minutes before a surgery. He woke up really well from the anesthesia and we were on our way home by 10:30. He cried the whole way home and my heart broke to not be able to hold him or comfort him. He did so well considering that he understood so little of what was happening to him.
He will be sore for a couple of days...right now, he is walking around like a woman who just had a baby!:) But, at this rate, what is a funny looking walk in the midst of funny sounding coughs, funny sounding voices as a result of the coughs:), funny looking hair from all the "bed head" we have going on, and funny looking "flushes" from the fevers that don't want to go away!!!

And, in the midst of all this "funny" we are working on remembering that, even on days when we are sick and days when things are not going our way...they are ALL still days that the Lord has made so, let us rejoice and be glad in it!" Psalm 118:24