Perfect Timing

I am so thankful for God's mercy and the way that He has continued to answer our prayers. It is so evident that He is in control and there is a much greater power at work in our situation. Even when it's inconvenient and frustrating for our plans to get changed, God is showing us that He knows it ALL. He has been so faithful to walk us through every single step and show us that everything He is doing is for a good reason. 

Friday when Henley started showing signs of getting sick I began to worry. "What if....." blah blah blah. It's so silly to worry when he is constantly saying "I've got this Leslie! Let go and trust me. I can handle this too." I hate that sometimes my human nature takes over and lets the doubt creep in. As if I could honestly do something about all of this anyways. 

As I said in my previous post. Last night our small group from church and a few close friends came over to our house to pray over Henley. Before we started, I asked everyone to please pray specifically for this runny nose and cough to subside because I knew they would probably cancel the surgery if she showed any signs of being sick. I said to everyone that if for some reason the surgery was cancelled that we would take that as a sign from God that tomorrow was not the day HE had planned for her surgery for one reason or another. 

After everyone left we started getting everyone to bed. (I'm repeating my last post here) I felt like Henley was breathing a little bit harder and her coughing was a little bit more frequent so I decided to give her a breathing treatment to see if that would help any. It didn't and so I put her to bed in her room which is practically a rainforest at this point with the humidifier on full blast. About 30 minutes after I put her down her coughing got more and more violently. I went in to check on her and it was obvious she was trying so hard to go to sleep but just could not get comfortable. I decided to give her some homeopathic cough and cold medicine to see if that would help her calm down and go to sleep. The second I opened the door to her room to give her the medicine I could hear her gasping for air. It was shocking to me to see how quickly she has gone downhill in just 30 minutes. I told Adam to come listen to her and he agreed it was pretty bad. We tried to wait it out and let the cough medicine take effect so we went downstairs and listened to her on the monitor. By this point it was 10:30 pm. We sat there and just stared at each other. I was just frustrated because we were both tired and I knew that this was going to be another long night. We sat their going back and forth with which neighbor to call to come hang out at our house while we took Henley to the ER. Frustrated, I called my friend Chesley and told her that I felt like we needed to take Henley in. Being the most wonderful neighbor and friend she was willing to come right over. (Thanks Ches!) 

Chesley heard Henley in the monitor and agreed that we should go. When I went up to get her out of bed she had thrown up all over everything. I wonder how many times I have cleaned up throw up. Seriously, its a glorious day if we don't deal with some kind of bodily fluids. Sometimes, I think a vacation would be a day in which I didn't have to force feed anyone or be thrown up on. Wow, my standards have really lowered! 

After an ER visit, a croup diagnosis and finally getting to bed at 2:30 am Zane decided that he would wake up an hour early at 6:30. BOO! He was ready to play and we were totally worn out. 

We went to our pre-op appointment at 11:00 am and when we got back to the room Dr. Robert's nurse came in. Having had no idea of the night we had she started off with "I was going to call you this morning, but I figured you were already on your way down here. I am so sorry to tell you this, but Dr. Roberts has had a family emergency and he is out of town tending to that. We are going to have to move Henley's surgery to Thursday". I immediately thought "Wow God, you sure know how to get your way when you want something changed!" So far he has changed just about everything that we scheduled and put it on a different date. Don't believe me? Go back and read. Last February at our scheduled MRI we had a crazy blizzard that kept us from that. Our scheduled MRI in Sept, Henley gets pneumonia, Our re-scheduled MRI gets bumped because of a doctors schedule. We are given two dates for a re-schedule and we choose November versus Oct 19. God chose Oct 19! He changed Adam's trip to China and all of our plans that week to make it so that we were in the hospital and having her MRI on that day. I mean who can argue with that?!? I just wish God would tell me what date He has in mind so I could stop planning things on my own.

When we told the nurse that we thought they would cancel it anyways because of our little ER visit last night she said that she needed to call Dr. Roberts personally and see what he said about the croup. She came back in after talking to him and said that he wanted to postpone it for 6 MORE WEEKS so her lungs could heal. After my initial frustration and thoughts of "oh my goodness, when is this going to be over?!?!" I was reminded by my sweet husband that God totally had this planned all along and He saw this day too, just like he has seen the others.

We should have a new surgery date set tomorrow. Stay tuned. Keep praying.