This afternoon, our friend Jimmy had brain surgery.
You heard me right! Last week, his wife Christy, who is one of Cathy's best friends, found him unconscious at home. She finally got him in to see the doctor, and they found out that he was bleeding slowly inside his skull and he had a brain aneurysm. This was at the start of Labor Day weekend, so since he was in no immediate danger as long as he was under observation at the hospital, they scheduled an exploratory procedure for Tuesday. They discovered the aneurysm during this procedure, and scheduled a surgery to clamp it off for today, Wednesday. Usually we go to church on Wednesday with choir practice after, and we were hoping for the surgery to be over by that time, but as it turned out it took longer than that and we missed the whole service and the rehearsal! BUT: the important thing is that Jimmy came through the surgery with flying colors; the doctor told Christy that things couldn't have gone better. It was pretty close to ten p.m. when we finally got to see Jimmy; he was still seriously drugged up but we spoke to him in case he could hear us, and then we went to pick up the kids from Meme's house.
It was great that Cathy was able to be there for most of the day; there were a couple of times that Christy really needed someone for support, and Cathy was able to be that friend for her.
Thank you, God, for taking care of Jimmy today!
You heard me right! Last week, his wife Christy, who is one of Cathy's best friends, found him unconscious at home. She finally got him in to see the doctor, and they found out that he was bleeding slowly inside his skull and he had a brain aneurysm. This was at the start of Labor Day weekend, so since he was in no immediate danger as long as he was under observation at the hospital, they scheduled an exploratory procedure for Tuesday. They discovered the aneurysm during this procedure, and scheduled a surgery to clamp it off for today, Wednesday. Usually we go to church on Wednesday with choir practice after, and we were hoping for the surgery to be over by that time, but as it turned out it took longer than that and we missed the whole service and the rehearsal! BUT: the important thing is that Jimmy came through the surgery with flying colors; the doctor told Christy that things couldn't have gone better. It was pretty close to ten p.m. when we finally got to see Jimmy; he was still seriously drugged up but we spoke to him in case he could hear us, and then we went to pick up the kids from Meme's house.
It was great that Cathy was able to be there for most of the day; there were a couple of times that Christy really needed someone for support, and Cathy was able to be that friend for her.
Thank you, God, for taking care of Jimmy today!
No comments:
Post a Comment