Another on the Mend!

Here's our sweet patient of the day. It has been a long day for her. Nathan, Abigail and I left at 5am and pulled back into the driveway at 4pm...so another long day at Vanderbilt...rather typical. The doctor sounded pleased with his handiwork. I still can't imagine how anyone can work in such a small space...through the ear canal! Her last surgery was done by making a cut behind her ear and going in to repair the eardrum that way. Today a small cut was made to extract some fat from the crease behind her earlobe and that was used to patch her eardrum. That fatty patch will eventually thin our as it is absorbed into her system and will become a part of her ear drum and be as thin as her eardrum. Praying that this surgery will work. This is her eighth ear surgery...not all the same as this one...but that is a lot of surgeries for a young lady of 13! I am so thankful that the surgery is over and now she can heal. This one should be an easier surgery to recover from since there was less cutting. She has a cup over her ear to protect it for tonight and part of tomorrow and then she will be able to take that off. Kathy seems to be in recovery mode after her foot surgery yesterday. She had six little ones to take care of her today...all very attentive or so it seemed. Kathy did say that her foot is hurting more today than yesterday...yesterday she was still numb. I heard from Kathy that she saw Goosey (Woody) head off on his walk today. I checked with him and he walked four miles and said that he got a bit chilly. Our weather turned to more fall-like temperatures after a cold front went through last night. When I blogged last night, I was really disappointed as it looked like we missed the rain that some got from the passing front...but several hours later, it started to rain and rained quite a bit. Woody said that the rain gauge said that we got 1"...a much needed 1"! It was great to hear the rain on the roof once again. Woody also went to WalMart today...an errand that he usually does on Saturday. I am pretty tired after our long day. I sat down after I ate a bowl of soup for supper and next thing I knew it was time to blog! We got another friendly automated call from Vanderbilt tonight to confirm another appointment. Last night after I blogged, Woody got a call from someone in radiation at Vanderbilt. She was needing to change the appointment for the CT scan as their machine had broken at the main Vanderbilt hospital and they were having to move them to another place they do imaging that is in another area near Nashville. So one of his next Wednesday appointments got moved to Tuesday when he has his appointment with Dr. Holt, his orthopedic surgeon. Her appointment wasn't until 3pm and now we have an 8am for his CT scan. It is a bit closer to us than Vanderbilt and in a building that we have gone to before...now if we just don't take the wrong turn like we did the last time we went to that building! The call we got tonight asked that we get to that appointment an hour ahead...so...I guess another dark and early departure for us next week and then we will have to do something to kill the time before his late afternoon appointment...of course this imaging center happens to be near some nice shopping so maybe we will poke around a bit...and "maybe" get motivated in thinking about Christmas...which would be a good thing as Christmas will be exactly two months from next Tuesday. I will end with prayers for Kathy's and Abigail's swift healing and success for both surgeries! Oh, and, here is one of the things that we did to pass the time in the waiting room. I'm not too good at selfies...just about cut myself out...but the person who was most important got all the way in!