Today was the supposed to be the big day. Hudson was scheduled to have his surgery at 12:30pm MDT and we were super ready. I had given him the required 2 anti-bacterial baths the night before with the surgical soap they provided and a 3rd bath this morning before leaving. I fed breakfast to the other two kids, arranged their activities at the House , we prayed as a family, and then we packed Hudson up in the van and off we went to hospital. Thankfully, the House is just 5 minutes from the Stollery Children’s Hospital. We were on our way there and just about to pull into the parking garage and we get a phone call. Our nurse, Cindy, said not to pull into parking and they will likely need to postpone Hudson’s surgery because they don’t have any beds for Hudson post-op. They are full and don’t expect any beds to free up today. 🙁 They mentioned they may have to reschedule to next week or possibly send us home! I was thinking NO WAY! However, they were going to call us back in 30 minutes to let us know. Forty minutes passed and the call had unfortunate news for us. They were unable to get us in today. I have to say that i felt disappointed and a bit frustrated because I did feel ready and Hudson was ready to go to the hospital and was even telling us he was going to have his surgery and “unzip him and fix his heart”. He asked, “How come no more surgery, mommy? How come? Awwwwww!”. I had to explain to him the reason. There are only 23 beds and they already have 23 patients.
Later in the day, the dissapointment passed and I was OK with him not having surgery today. It was a beautiful, sunny day and I took him to the playground and watched him enjoy himself thoroughly playing in the sand. The House also had movie day in the afternoon as part of the school program they have here and he watched a movie with the others. He had ice cream and played with his cars and danced around naked HA! HA! what a goofball of a kid I have, seriously, he’s so funny.
We did finally receive another phone call saying they will try to get us in for tomorrow (Friday) at 2:40 PM MDT, so I really pray that this will happen because I dont’ know how much postponing I can do. It is draining because I work myself up for the day so much that having to do it multiple times would just deflate me.
A wonderful thing about being here is all the families we get to meet, listen to their stories and meet their little miracles. I am thankful Hudson is able to enjoy the House as much as his brother and sister have raved about it to him.
Tonight we had another group of people come and make us a dinner. A taco buffet with a ton of desserts and apparently every Thursdays we have a group of Mennonite ladies bake all sorts of baked goods all morning in the House. I will be rolling out of this place after all the food and goodies that are here HA! HA!! But really, I am just overwhelmed with everyones generosity and willingness to help families at times where making a meal is the last thing you want to be doing and thinking about when all your mind is preoccupied with your childs well being.
Anyhow, I pray that tomorrow happens. Hayden and Hayley will get to go on a trip to the zoo nearby with the school program here at the House. I feel so much better leaving my other kids behind knowing they will be taken care of by their grandparents and at same time get to do fun stuff with other kids. It is one less thing I need to worry about.
Thank you for all your continued prayers!
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