The bad luck just keeps coming our way. My dad is now hospitalized in the room next to the room I was in for four days. On Thursday while I was laying on my belly getting physical therapy the hubby calls from my dad's cardiologist's office to advise that my dad's EKG showed an anomaly so he was being sent home with a holter to monitor his heartbeat for 24 hours. My hubby and dad drove almost all the way home when the hospital calls and tells them to turn around and go back due to some problem with the holter, which turned out to be a "AAA" battery.
The following day the holter was returned and my dad ended up being immediately admitted to the hospital due to an arrhythmia in his heart. So now he is hospitalized, and his trip had to be cancelled.
I began to question the odds of a scorpion stinging both my husband and I and my dad and I landing as patients in the same hospital. I know God is not supposed to test you beyond what you cannot stand, but I am beginning to feel like Job in the Old Testament. I think though, that God and I will be having a serious conversation very soon.
On the positive side, I am doing much better, my dad and I did not land in the hospital and the same time and we are blessed with our "adopted daughter" and her hubby who have been a true blessing from God.
Ironically landing in the hospital for four days meant being away from being with my mother-in-law, who suffers from advanced dementia, which helped restore my patience with her. I have come home and been extra patient and attentive to her needs even when she does whacky things like pack all her belongings in a box, and carry around a towel with soap and toothpaste all day long.
Maybe the same thing will happen to my husband spending 2 or 3 days with my father in the hospital.
I truly wish I could be with my dad in the hospital 24/7 but since I cannot, I am thankful to be able to Skype with him from here.
We were advised today that he will have to remain in the hospital another 48 hours. He has extra imcentive to bust out of there since my beloved sister and her husband will be arriving here Friday. I cannot wait to see them both since she is my only sis and her hubby has a special way of bringing laughter to all of us, which is the best medicine.
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