3:00 am Tuesday February 22nd, 2011. I wake up, after having one hour of sleep, its show time!! The day before was an awesome day! I got to have lunch with one of my best friends then I got to spend the afternoon with my amazing sister Rachel, then I got to spend the night with my other sweet sister Ashley. Of course in there was the very unfun act of packing for 3 months! It was a good day. Rachel and I hung out at home and watched movies, something I miss so much now! Then I went with Ashley on a midnight Wal-Mart run. I could not eat or drink after midnight of course. The last thing I ate I was dill pickles and the last thing I drank was a sprite, right up to midnight.
So at 3:00 I started bringing all my stuff upstairs. I had SO much stuff, thankfully Jim helped me! At 3:30 it was goodbye Cape Girardeau. Leaving was not easy. The car ride didn’t seem as long as usual. We both expressed our thought that this whole experience might be God preparing me to go 6 hours away to UMKC for school this fall. I had my interview beginning of February, in the blizzard, and they mail out admission decisions April 1st so we are still waiting to see. I’m not quite sure what God has planned for me but whatever it is I know it will be great!!
When we got to Children’s Hospital we went up to same day surgery. They quickly took me back and had me get into a gown. I laid in bed waiting over an hour before things got moving. They were really nice when they did my IV. They put a numbing patch over the area first. I had the option to do it that way or go into the OR get some laughing gas and then get my IV, but I did the IV while I was in the room and they were able to give me a “cocktail” through my IV to calm me down while I waited. Surprisingly I wasn’t too freaked out. I kept thinking leading up to that day the fear would set in and I would freak out but I never really did. That shows me how much more I have learned to trust God!!
When they wheeled me into the OR there were so many people there, it felt so weird!! Someone asked me if I could tell they had given me any medicine. I said I felt sleepy, but I felt that way when I got there. They put some medicine in my IV and next thing I knew I was waking up to hearing Angela’s sweet voice. It took me a few minutes to open my eyes. Right away I felt up at my head, yep, the Halo was on. It was really weird because when I looked up I could see it, that’s something I’ve gotten used to. Over the next hour they gradually raised the head of my bed so I could sit up. I was surprised I didn’t feel that bad. They gave me some crackers, vanilla wafers, and sprite.
About noon they discharged me. I got in the car with Angela and off to Shriners Hospital we went. The whole ride I felt fine. We stopped to get some food and I was so sleepy. I put my seat back and slept while Angela ate. When we started driving again I wasn’t feeling too good. One street before we needed to turn I told Angela to pull over. I opened the door, stuck my head out, and threw up! I felt awful.
When we got there we had to wait what felt like forever for someone to take me to my room. I immediately crawled in bed. I spent the rest of the day trying to sleep, but constantly sitting up with my head in a bucket. One sip of sprite, head in the bucket. One cheese-it, head in the bucket. It was awful. Lots of different people came in asking me questions. It was a very difficult day. During the night they kept waking me to take vitals, do neuro checks, and give me medicine. Since that night I have not slept through the nigh once!!
That is a day I do not wish to repeat but I know it was necessary on my journey to healing!
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