We got to sleep in some today and even took a nap later in the morning. :)
No real pain for Joanna today, only discomfort here and there. She is still slow moving around but can last longer and longer each day when it comes to laps around the med surg floor.
She's actually able to read the blog now, so any notes you'd like to drop her she will be able to read herself now.
The doc on call came by this morning and said the discomfort is normal and that she seems to be healing very well. He put her on a FULL LIQUID diet which meant pureed vegetable soup and carrot juice and fruit juice. She cannot take in too much at a time because she gets full sort of fast. But things seem to be moving through well enough for now. That doctor also indicated that she may be able to go home as early as Monday! woo hoo!
The actual surgeon that performed her surgery just now came by and said he is very happy with her progress. We got to ask him more about what he saw during surgery and his answers were helpful for our understanding of the situation. It boils down to the fact that the surgery saved her life. Her small intestine had sprung a small leak based on localized inflammation. He was able to remove the problem area and put her back together. Though emergency surgery is never preferred over elective, well timed surgery, we are grateful for this doctor and his work, and we are hopeful for the future.
We know that even as God heals Joanna from this surgery and hopefully for a long time to come, he has also promised that death to these bodies will come. We have found the comfort of Christ and his power over death to be acutely strengthening in this time. We pray that even as bowels and bodies fail we will stay hopeful in Jesus and the eternal glory that he has promised to satisfy us with in the end.
"To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." - 2 Corinthians 12
Delighting in Weakness,
C&J
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