Seasons of Life: Home Sweet Home

We are home!!! I had planned on coming home Sunday afternoon to get some work done today and then go back to UW tonight. For some reason last night I decided to stay. Nurse Kelsie had said, No, not going home Monday. We had a really busy weekend with visitors and I was tired so decided to just stay.

This morning when I saw Les, he was pretty perky! The doctors at 6:45 had mentioned MAYBE he could go home tonight. Well, we both went running with that. Les got dressed in sweatpants this morning; he walked without any support; he got in and out of bed; he sat in a chair for several hours. We asked nurse Megan what we had to do to go home. She said she would work on it. We had a stoma cleaning session planned for 3 (Les' opening in his throat is called a stoma). Dr. Hillel surprised us at one - we thought he would come around 6 pm!! He was so pleased with Les' progress and said we could go home. Praise The Lord! We still figured it would be around 6 or 7 before the orders got through. My brother Don surprised us about that time, 1:00. He lives in eastern Washington and drove over just to visit. He helped pass the time. All of a sudden at 3:30 nurse Megan came in waving discharge papers and we were out of there by 4:30. I was so thankful to have my brother to help load everything up and push the wheelchair!!

When we got home this dark and dreary night, the cleaning fairies had returned. My house has not been this clean for a very long time. Lawn is mowed, flower beds are cleaned out, soup is in the fridge. You have NO IDEA how much we appreciate these acts of love. Thanks for all the prayers, the cards, the visits (didn't get a picture of Pam & Brandi!!), the gifts.....