The last two weeks have passed so quickly after finding out from a stress test and echocardiogram that the doctor saw abnormalities in your heart. Early this morning as we prayed together in the waiting room until it was time to come and get you prepped, I could see the nervous look and tears in your eyes. How many times in our life together have we sat waiting on one or the other for surgery’s and tests and the unknown? How many will we face in the future? How many tears and the thoughts that go through our minds of the unknown ? When we were done praying i could feel the peace come over me that you would be okay.
The nurse called your name and told me when you go to recovery today I would be able to be with you again. We said our goodbyes and you turned and looked at me as you walked away. The look on your face was that of a little boy being sent to the principals office.
I got up from my seat a couple of times and could see on the big computer screen in the room where you where , what was going on, and when you were done and being moved into recovery. That was about an hour and a half after you were taken back. They finally called my name and escorted me down two long corridors to your recovery room. I’ve been through this twice myself and wasn’t expecting to see you in the room some what different than my times of being in the room after a heart catheter. The nurse told us both that the doctor would be right in to talk to us and that I was not to let you raise your head or turn your body. She said because they did not go through your wrist as we were told before you went in. She said the doctor would explain. I still could feel that sense of peace about the outcome. I can only explain it as God telling us it’s okay. He’s the great physician and he was in charge of everything the doctor and nurses did today. Have faith and we both did when we had turned it over to him back in the waiting room praying for you. We weren’t the only ones praying. Family, friends, our church, so many. God heard every one too!
The doctor came in and hugged me and said he would explain this in layman terms so that we would be able to understand what was going on . First, James already has 5 stents in his groin from the blood clots that have been there a couple years now. He said they were able to take a look at them and they were doing great and going through the vein that rerouted itself because of those stents, he was able to go the new route to your heart. There he saw a blockage that was 100% blocked, but looked as if it been blocked a while and you could have had a heart attack and not known it. You had another that was 40%, and one more that had mild plaque . Why he didn’t stent the one that was 100% was because it’s too close to the main artery and could cause a massive heart attack.
James seemed to be hearing what was being told to us but I could see how drossy his eyes were getting and hadn’t quite come out of the anesthesia . The doctor finished telling what he would be watching for in the next visits and the last outcome would be bypass surgery .
The next couple of hours was going by me in slow motion as I watched you sleep and only wake when the nurse came in to check your vitals and leg, I couldn’t help but know that I wasn’t the only one watching you in that quite room. Angel’s surrounded you and the peace I felt all day was God . I have no doubt he was letting me know he had calmed those nerves before you went into surgery, he was the one moving the doctors hands and what to do, and he was the one that was telling us he has and always will be the one that hears our prayers!
After the long recovery time you were finally released to go home with a lot of rules.
I’m so thankful for the Lord being with us today as we went through another storm in our life and I know he will be with us in what ever storms we face.
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