As a child, I watched the Wizard of Oz every year with my family for probably 12 years in a row. It was a major family tradition. There are many parts that rank as favorite but Dorothy’s love for home made me cry every time. When she finally got home she was so happy.
Amy and I got home yesterday and it was almost tears. She was loving it more than me because of being the patient. We are happy to be home.
So, what were the last 7 days like? I felt like I had entered “mirror world”. It was a world where everything is reversed. It was me waiting for word on Amy’s surgery instead of Amy waiting. It was me visiting the patient and hearing what I must have sounded like as she said, that hurts, please close the blinds, don’t be too loud, call the nurse, etc… wow, it was so wierd. It was me helping my wife. Amy kept saying I hate to ask you and I said, Do you know how far behind I am in service to you? I will never catch up.
I used humor to help us all through the experience. At one point when we had waited so long for word on Amy, one of my daughters was crying. I said, Did you cry during my surgery? She didn’t laugh she just wanted to hit me but I reminded her I had wounds everywhere!! It was great having all the family there, even my son this time. He is quite the comedian. At one point he wrote on Amy’s white board. This board has the date and then says your nurse today is “Lori”, your tech is “Marina”, and my son added, our attorney is my Sister! The nurses got a kick out of it and all said they would be especially careful.
The day of surgery was the longest day of my life. I left Amy at 7:30 am as they prepared to roll her back to surgery. I found out surgery did not start till 9am but then it did not end until 11:30pm that night. There are so many emotions one goes through in a day like that. Mostly for us it was, “What could possibly be taking this long?” In the end it all worked out very well because Amy is healthy and should be that way for long time.
Everyone is so kind to ask about Amy and then say, “and how are you doing?” I believe God has shown His kindness through all of this by having me almost normal just in time to start taking care of Amy. I feel great and just want to say how much I love God and am thankful for the wonderful Christian family that has stood with us through all of the summer.
I am reading “The Shack” right now and you can be sure that my next blog will be about this most intriguing book.
Hi Amy and Al,
I came upstairs to check your blog and was delighted to see you had entered an update on Amy. So glad you are back home and you, Al, are well enough to take care of our sweet Amy! Our thoughts and prayers are with you!
Take care!
Thanks so much for the update, Al! I’m glad y’all are home. I wish I could be there to help. Hugs to you both.
Love,
Cousin Kathy
Glad you’re home and blogging again. I hope the healing is quick physically and emotionally. May God make you each strong enough to care for the other.
Thanks for updating your blog. Glad to hear that you guys are back home! We’ll continue to pray for both of your recoveries!
We love reading your blog and are so thankful for you and Amy! We will continue to pray you both. I can’t wait to hear your blog on The Shack-I am reading it too!
Oh Al,
Thanks so much for the update. We are praying for both of you daily. Give Amy our love.
Debbie & Bobby
So glad to hear you are both home and doing ok. Our thoughts and prayers are with you both always.
God’s timing is always perfect isn’t it? I’m glad you are both home!
I could picture “Little Al” (as we always called him, though he’s not “little” anymore
making jokes to help you all to smile! What a blessing!
I am also very curious to see your interpretation on The Shack. I recently read it and I must say, I was very troubled by how many scriptural inaccuracies there were. There has been so much positive talk on this book. I have often thought about writing about it on my own blog-we’ll see! But I can’t wait to see what you think!
Happy Reading!
Its great that you’re all home safe and sound. God has of course answered all our prayers again, nothing new about that is their
. Remember , although we are out of site we always remain vigilant in our prayers for you. Faithfull always, Robin Dennis and Krista
You guys really take those wedding vows seriously. Beth and I are encouraged by families like yours when we see so many not fullfilling those sacred promises. Stay the course my friend.
Just wanted you to know that we have had you both in our prayers and hearts.
Tell Amy we love her!