My family has spent more time in the hospital in the last 5 months than we have in years. It’s strange – we’ve been medically blessed.
I had hepatitis in the 7th grade – spent 3 days in the hospital while they figured out which kind I had. When they discovered it wasn’t the bad kind, they sent me home.
My sisters had three babies between the two of them – 2 C-sections and one regular delivery. Except for my niece being 7 weeks early, and Josh being a little jaundiced, our babies were perfectly healthy, which is a blessing. They’ve never even broken anything, except Josh broke his arm.
We spent 3 days at the hospital in Marathon, waiting, after my mom had her heart attack. That wasn’t pleasant.
At the end of September, I had my gall bladder removed. I got there at 6:30 and was home by noon. While my daddy was taking care of me, he had a little episode and spent 3 days in the ICU ward.
This week, my sister had a hysterectomy. We were at the hospital by 8, she was in a room by 3:30 and was home before noon the next day. While I was sitting there waiting for her, I thought once or twice to myself how lucky we’ve been! I know people who’ve spent hours and hours and days and weeks in hospitals! While we were waiting for my sister to be discharged, we started discussing our family’s medical history.
Basically, we agreed on these things:
1. We’ve had good hospital experiences. Everyone during Robyn’s surgery and my surgery and my dad’s ICU visit was remarkably kind and knowledgeable. I did have a phone conversation with my dad’s nurse that wasn’t exactly pleasant, but other than that, everything’s been wonderful.
2. God has blessed us to be remarkably hospital visit free --- and what a blessing that is!! We are very grateful for that!!
3. We know we have been blessed – this is not something that we take lightly. Many families we know have had many, many more hospital and doctor visits than we have – and I don’t know how they do it. I was so impatient waiting the other day – and there is lots of waiting at the hospital. ( I think that’s another story right there!)
We are blessed.
