An Update for Friends and Family of Betty

For those who are praying for my Darling Betty, here is an update I posted last night on FB for her family and friends. 

"I wanted to post a quick update on my darling friend Betty. Her daughter Dana is hoping to get online for a few minutes tomorrow to update family and friends, but as I'm sure you understand she has little time for fb these days, so I told her I would post a message with tags in hopes that Betty's friends would see it for now. 

I have spent some time with Betty, Dana, and Mary the past couple of days and wanted to assure you all that Betty is really doing very well through all of this. She is resting comfortably and having her every need lovingly attended to by Mary and Dana as well as Denny and his wife Patricia, Dana and Mary's husbands and Betty's grandchildren. She is lovingly attended to 24/7 with not only her loved ones by her side, but her little Sadie as well who spent some time cuddled up with Betty and loving her today. 

It is very important to Betty that everyone know that she is not at all afraid. She feels as though she is going home and she is excited and looking forward to the journey. She knows loved ones are waiting there for her as well as her heavenly Father. 

She continues to be sharp as a tack and as witty as ever, just very tired. Her physical symptoms are being managed with medication and she is comfortable. We listened to some of her favorite music tonight and she literally had her toes tapping in the air as she rested and enjoyed the music, letting us know when she didn't like a song so Dana could FF to the next song. 

She is her same lovable, humorous, sassy, good old old broad self! (she has specifically asked me to use the term good old broad when referring to her). 

I hope this puts some minds to rest and hopefully Dana will be on soon to answer messages and update you all. 

Blessings,

Colleen (Betty's friend) "

The Waiting Game

So, I've been missing from the web for a bit while we play the waiting game. My mother-in-law was rushed to urgent care awhile back suffering from severe dehydration. Two days later she was in the ER with constant vomiting and severe abdominal pain. It turns out she had a blockage in her small intestine which was the cause of the dehydration. The next day she underwent surgery to clear the blockage and after surgery she was unable to breathe on her own. She has been on a ventilator ever since. She is 83 years old.


I sit here now in the waiting room of the CCCU waiting til after shift change so we can see her again. We wait to hear how her pneumonia is doing. We wait to hear if her blood pressure is regulated. We wait to see if today will be the day she can breathe on her own again. We wait to hear if her white blood count is down, if her blood gases are good, if her fever is under control. Waiting is the toughest part of life. As we wait, we sit with another family who wait for their wife, mother, sister, daughter to heal from an aneurysm, she was rushed into the hospital the same day as my mother-in-law. We all sit and wait. We talk a little, pray a little, try to offer comfort to one another, encouragement to one another. We laugh together, try not to cry in front of each other, sharing our lives in this strange way. Strangers sharing this experience of waiting. We ache with each other, for each other, pray with each other, for each other. We sit in the room together, yet separate, together, yet alone. And we wait. And hope.


Blessings,
Colleen