Waiting til Surgery is Almost Over!

Overall we had a good day.  When we first arrived, we got the call that we have a room in the Ronald McDonald House.  What a HUGE blessing!  It's within walking distance of the hospital.  Very nice rooms and only $15/night.  And good memories of thankfulness through the years!

It's a time warp to walk in and remember the first time when they only had an upstairs room for us at first, and it was just days after I had a C-section with no elevator.  The next night someone traded with us!  We were so young then and the intensity of Riley was all so new.  Our baby was on a ventilator and we had no idea if he would live or not.  Now look at us 17.5 years later!  God is good!!  We all have grown so much!

Today we had some good laughs and met some good people.  Tom and Jacob are posting pics to the pics page, so check them out.  That's another great way to walk with us.

Jocie started with a rough day.  The middle of the day she had tons of fun, but she didn't nap until we got in the car to go to dinner.  Then she only napped a little bit.  Who knows what PawPaw & NaNa are up against tonight.  She was not her happy self by the end of the day. Continue to pray for her. 

We had a nice dinner with Grandma & Grandpa South tonight.  Grandpa bought Jacob a great steak dinner at Weber Grill.  Tomorrow he will just have IV fluids to "eat"! Maybe some Sprite, too. Grandma & Grandpa will be her tomorrow.  It's nice to have them here. 

We got to see the pacemaker that they will put in tomorrow.  See pics.  Dr. Brown has one other shorter case before Jacob. He had a REALLY long case today so we didn't get to see him today.

Jacob found out that he will have a 5 lb weight restriction for about 5 weeks and he won't be able to drive for 4 weeks.  He is handling those two tidbits remarkably.

Cassie from the Riley Childrens' Foundation came by.  She helped pass some of the waiting time and read a Beauty and the Beast book to Jocie THREE times!

I'm tired... that's about all I have to say right now.  Thanks for riding along with us!  The road tomorrow will be bumpy but we are expectant of God at work providing a new level of healing for Jacob!