Crazy Week!

[Ukulelemike]

What a week we've had.

  On Monday night, June 30, (my wife's birthday), I was woken up about midnight to her going in to use the restroom. Half-asleep, I watched as she walked unsteadily, stopped at the door to the hall, and fall face first to the ground. I jumped up and called to her, with no response. I lifted her partway and she said calmly, "I chipped a tooth, and I have to poop." (she actually lost the entire front tooth, which is good because its a clean loss, not broken). I helped her up and tried to get her to the bathroom, but she couldn't walk at all, she was totally limp, so I brought her back to the bed, laid some pads under her and told her to do what she needed, as I looked her over and kept her talking to figure out what had happened. Then she began to pour blood, from where I won't say, but the context should tell you. Lots of blood.

I can't really recount my emotions at that point, it was more like, Just gotta figure out what's happening, and get some help, so I cleaned her up, got her dressed and called 911. Eventually, once I led them in, since we live in the boonies, they got her out, and took her about 3 miles to the small local airport, where she was taken by  helicopter to a Reno hospital.

Long story short, she had a bleeding duodenum ulcer, about 3.5cm diameter, which had apparetly been bleeding a little and giving her some pain which had kept her pretty sick for a few weeks. We had been to the doctor a couple times but they never found anything, and she had begun to drink aloe vera juice because it eased the pain; problem is, apparently aloe vera is a blood thinner, so it heightened the bleeding and it all let loose at once after building up in her intestines.

Well, we're home now-she got out Thurday night and we stayed a couple days in town with my parents to be near the hospital, just in case. And today, a good day to come home because it finally cooled off, we came home, and she is almost her old self.

God is good. Had we not caused the horrible reaction from the aloe vera, she might have continued trying to treat an unknown pain and maybe had worse problems, so all things do work together for good to them that love the Lord.   Now I will be tryig to convince myself of that when the bills for the airlift and hospital stay arrive, since we had no insurance-she had to quit her job about a month ago due to the pain and I haven't been able to get it started with my work. But God is still good.

[John81]

That is a lot to fall upon you and your wife like that. Thanks be to God we don't face such things alone and He's there for us even if we aren't thinking about it or can't see Him in action at a particular moment.

Praise God your wife is better and you are both home now. I pray the bills may be less than expected and the Lord will provide the funds to pay them.

[Covenanter]

May God give your wife a full recovery, and help with the bills. 

And may you both know peace and rest in the Lord.

 

[Rosie]

thanking God that she is better... praying for your finances ..

[MountainChristian]

Praise the good Lord she is doing better.

[Ukulelemike]

Thanks, all. She was very happy to be back in church after about three weeks where she just didn't have the strength. And of course, as my wife, its tough to come and be a pillar as a pastor to others when a part of yourself can't be there. Praise God though, through it all I didn't miss a service, and didn't have to neglect her.

God is truly good.

[Invicta]

Praise the Lord.

[Miss Daisy]

Glad to hear she's home now. Really thankful you didn't sleep through her falling to the floor!

[EKSmith]

praying for you brother

[Alan]

Thank you for the update and the blessings of the Lord on your life. May God bless you and your wife.

"Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart." Psalm 73:1