Good Intentions Sometimes Go A-Stray!

Last Sunday, Easter Sunday at that, I had to miss teaching my children church kids. I teach grades 1st through 5th grade students. We don't have a whole lot of kids that age in elementary school. I'd say on a good Sunday, I'd have about 8 or 9 kids coming to my class. Last Sunday, Easter Sunday, I had planned out my entire lesson. I was going to do the story on the Resurrection Eggs story. But none of it happened. Why you ask? Well you see my husband of 22 years woke up early on Easter Sunday morning, as we were trying to get ready to go to Easter Sun Rise Service and breakfast at the church. Nope, didn't happen. My grandaughter, Austin, got up and dressed. My husband, Craig, tried to get out of bed, but he couldn't move his right leg as he said it felt like his knee was going to explode. I tried to help him get up on it, but the more he tried, the more it hurt. I convinced him to go to the ER so a doctor could check it out. I looked at his right leg and it was just slightly swollen. It wasn't red, or anything else. Just he couldn't touch it, nor could he put any pressure on that right leg any place on it. I took my granddaughter, Austin, to the church, where her wonderful babysitter was working with the Youth Group. She could watch over Austin, however, since breakfast was almost over by the time we got there. I then drove Craig to the ER, which is at St. Joe's hospital here in Wichita, Ks.
They were not busy, thank goodness, so they took Craig right in. The doctor's examed it, and felt it must be a blood clot or something to that effect. They sent Craig down to a special room where they did a doppler test to see if it was a blood clot in his leg area. Nope, it was not a blood clot. Then they did a special test to see if it the veins had stenosis, or narrowing in them so the blood wouldn't get to his feet and toes. His toes and feet are always cold and the doctor told him 'he'd hate to be his wife, with all those cold feet he hat!". I told the doctor that Craig had always had cold feet every since we'd been married 22 years ago! I guess for one you don't see too many couples being married for 22 years (together) now, and the fact that he still had cold as ice feet that long! But we will be married for 22 years come this Oct. 3rd 2009. The doctor's then said they wanted to admit him and run more test and do an MRI on his spine and legs. So they admitted Craig to the hospital Easter Sunday. That evening they did the MRI with and without contrast on his spine and leg, and did not really see anything that would cause this much pain. Out of 1 to 10, Craig's pain level was a 10+! You couldn't touch any part of his leg from the pelvic area down to the tips of his toes. You couldn't put any pressure on the calf part of his lef and you could not squeez or touch it at all. The doctor's said they had never seen a leg act like this. So they consulted some neruologist doctors. They said they saw in the MRI a slightly compacted disc in the lower back, but that it wasn't bad enough to cause all theis pain Craig was having. We prayed that the pain would subside and that it wasn't a serious problem. I know that God must have heard us because they did give Craig some shots and the pain subsided some what. The medicine in the shots was a strong narcotic and it made Craig sleepy and not able to do too much of anything. So given that, they tried to get him to just stay in bed and not get out for any reason. I brought Craig my prayer shawl that was sent to me by a dear lady on my online prayer shawl group. I wished that Craig had one, but I will try my best to make him one now. The doctor said that they wanted to keep him off the leg and on the pain medication to see if it would get any better. After two days in bed, they told Craig to try to get up and walk to the bathroom door and back, which with help from me or the nurse he was able to do that. (Here it is late again and I'll finish this tomorrow...I hope)