The day was very quite 🙏🏻, which we are thankful. Carl's sibling came for a visit and reminded me I need to update. Praises all is going well except for eating, Carl can eat a few bites and feels full. He walked 7 times so far today. We are weary of this room and place and want to go home ! Carl is still getting IV antibiotics, TPN( nutrition) and has incision with drainage. He only needs assist of one to get in and out of bed. Many blessing as we look back, we try to remember that God has it all figured out, we must do one day at a time and trust Him. We continue to look at God, praying the Holy Spirit fills us with patience, gives us wisdom- how we react to set backs, know what God wants us to do to honor his name. Love Carl & Jody

Carl is getting stronger, walking with one assist past 2 days. The dressing has been removed from his bottom and looks closed. Ostomy is working. His pain is controlled with oral medications. Foley is out and no problem with voiding. Praises for all of this! PICC (IV ) did not have a blood return, they tried to use a medication to open the line, eventually he went down to IR( X-ray) and of course it worked perfectly. Maybe it was positional, just happy it did not need to be replaced. Please pray for decrease drainage from his abdominal incision, they have pouched ( bag)  it so drainage is contained. Pray that his stomach will return to normal and he can eat again.  Carl is not hungary, only able to take a few bites of food, they have cut back on TPN. It still feels like a long road before coming home, however when we look back at this past week we can see the progress Carl has made. " We live by faith, not by sight." 2 Corinthians 5:7 From Jesus calling" though you ...

It has been an exhausting few days, so hard to see Carl with pain, decrease mobility and his exhaustion. Yesterday his incision was noted red and firm, later he started to have clear drainage. They started him on antibiotics.The Dr doesn't seemed to be worried about this, he said it is not unusual for this  to happen when you redo a surgery. On a Good note his bowels are starting to wake up, Carl may have a full liquid diet, they are planning on removing foley Thursday, hoping he gets off IV Medication and take every thing by mouth. Carl is not very hungary Care management came into day and discussed Carl go to MaryFreebed or acute rehab care at current hospital. We were surprised by this, the Dr assured us this wouldn't happen suddenly. He wants him off the TPN and have bowels working. We are hoping Carl will regain strength and could go home from Blodgett. Please pray for wisdom , patience, healing and peace. Jody

Carl had a good night , sleeping mostly , Valium has been kind to him, is alert yet goes to sleep when left alone. Pain is 0/10 when at rest. 8/10 with repositioning . He has not needed extra IV dilaudid as PCA is controlling his pain. He is not using as much narcotic since Valium on board. Carl stood at bedside 2 times yesterday, he is very weak, needs 2 to assist. No nausea, abdomin is firm, Dr expected this and not concerned.  Praises:  ostomy looks good, ostomy nurse changed his appliance and was happy how it looked. Staff is very good, kind, very respectiveful of Carl's opinion. Please contiune to pray for his  bowels to function. Hoping Carl gets up 3 times today, foley will be removed when he can get out bed easily. His site where cancer was is healing well, all incisions also look great.  The past two days have been quite and we are thankful for that blessing. No talk about going home, just "wait and see".  "Come to me all who are weary and burde...

Carl had a good night , sleeping mostly , Valium has been kind to him, is alert yet goes to sleep when left alone. Pain is 0/10 when at rest. He will need to get out of bed , walk to restroom, have his foley removed, when foley stays in he has increase risk for infection. Praise ostomy looks good, pain controlled, incision intact, no infection. Please pray for his  bowels “need to wake up”, Dr doesn’t expect this for 3/4 more days. Trust in our mighty God! I slept good and feel rested.  I am listening to “ In touch.org- Getting ahead of God” 😊  I love how God talks to us, just what we need to hear from him, so we can keeping going day by day. Jody

Just spoke with Dr Ogilvie, Carl is in Recovery Room. It took so long due to scar tissue and small bowel so delicate, touching it caused small tears. (Needed to put in small sutures to repair these) They used midline incision, about 8 “ long ( same incision from 1st surgery )- just not as long this time) they removed that amount of bowel also.   He predicts Carl’s bowel will not wake up for 4-5 days. He will have to be careful what he eats when he does start to do solid foods. He predicts pain will be bad again. We discussed that Dad had cut back on the long acting morphine, he will have pain pump again (12 mg dilaudid in 4 hrs) and they may need to up the long acting Morphine. Praise that the surgery is done and successful! We will keep our same room on 4G16- Blodgett spectrum. Pray for good pain and nausea control, for bowels to heal and wake up, no problem with infection, keep God close to us all. It doesn’t make sense , other than God is protecting me and giving me peace. ...

Good morning, Carl texted me “ surgery is at 1 pm today. Reading Psalm 91 Thanks for praying for the medical team, family and Carl! Jody