Relief!

It is with great joy that I am posting this morning.  My last post was about the ongoing headaches that Sue has had all week, and over the last day and a half they had been accompanied by nausea and vomiting whenever she ate anything.  Last night they had to give her morphine to knock back the pain, rather than the vicodin.  When we left she was still miserable, and even though there was some mention of discharging her today (Saturday) we were not open to that because she was still on medications that I couldn't give her at home because they were using the IV line.  And they certainly wouldn't give me morphine for her!  At least, I don't think they would.

So this morning there is a text on my phone from Sue's sister Lee (who flew in from California yesterday and spent the night with Sue) that said "They gave Sue a new med, and you have your old wife now".  Needless to say I called her immediately.  She said it went something like this:

5:00am - new drug administered.
5:15am - "My headache is starting to lift"
5:30am - "I have to use the bathroom"
5:40am - "I'm hungry".  Lee: "there's a bananna on your tray"
5:45am - Sue "That was good.  I think there's some strawberries in the frige".  Lee gets strawberries.
5:50am - Sue: "I think I have a yogurt in that frige too".  Lee, who is really jet lagged and whose body thinks it's three hours earlier, gets up and gets the yogurt for Sue.
6:00am - Sue: "Do you think we can take a walk?" Lee drags herself out of the recliner again and takes Sue for a walk around the unit.
6:10am - Sue wants to talk.  Any one of you who knows Sue knows she loves conversations.  Ask her sometime about her 15 hour conversation with her pal Linda!  And she has been so drugged up and in pain the last few days that she has all these words building up inside her and they have to come out or her head will explode. 

So the girls and I are giving thanks to God for his great mercy today, and for the answered prayer of wisdom for the doctors, one of whom decided to give the new med a try.

Yesterday I picked up the girls from my brother's, and we went right to the hospital for some mom time.  Unfortunately Sue wasn't really all there because of the meds, so it was more of a time of worry than release for them.  I had good conversations with both of them about it last night.  I think they are very relieved with this news.

Sue is scheduled for another dye study today, so we're waiting on that to happen now.  I'll post whatever results we get from that later.

Thank you all for praying.  We're still looking for the why of this thing, so we still need prayer in that direction.