I called mom at 4:30 am just to make sure she was up and not only was she up, she was already ready to go. We didn't leave for St. Francis until 5:00 am. We arrived just before the 5:30 am starting time but before the heart shocking she needed to have blood drawn for labs, then an ekg and a chest x-ray. By the time we got to the place of the 'real' procedure, the nurses were in a tizzy stating they only had 20 minutes to have her prepped and ready to go before the doctor arrived to shock her heart. They had 2 nurses working quickly getting her iv in and the monitors all hooked up then 2 anesthesiologists came in to explain what they were going to do. AT that point I was ushered out of the room. Just a few minutes later all was done. Mom was still sound asleep but her heart was beating correctly. When she woke up I asked her if I could take a picture and send it to everyone waiting to hear, she smiled and said yes.
Once I sent the picture to the group text of all of the girls plus mom, this strange noise started sounding over and over and it was coming from mom's lap. It turned out her cell phone had been left in her pocket during the procedure and she was getting all of the texts. Thankfully the phone wasn't ruined. Mom pulled it out of her pocket and called Aunt Jinnie to let her know all was well. We were able to leave the hospital and made it home by 8:30 am. Mom was supposed to take it easy, no driving, cooking or working and she was to make no important decisions for the day. She rested on her chair. Rhoda and Sarah arrived for the day with their little ones. The girls decided now that the 8th day had passed since my arm injury it was time to have it x-rayed again. A stress fracture doesn't show up for a week. Rhoda baby sat while Sarah drove me to the walk in orthopedic clinic. That place was packed with people but they had plenty of help to keep everyone moving and it only took a few hours to get the x-ray and the doctor to read the x-ray. The diagnoses is no fracture, just a lot of soft tissue damage that will take a while to heal. Thankfully though not as long as a broken bone. I got back just in time to help Joan move the 2011 camper over to her house. It is leaving tomorrow and the other two campers are leaving Friday. The barn construction is coming along well. Today they raised one wall.
At 5:30 we drove to mom's grabbed 3 lawn chairs and the 3 of us drove to the fellowship hall for family night. A very nice salad bar meal was served first then Sandy Fritzenmeier and her horse Missy put on a demonstration on how important body language is for training and for a Christian. Below are a few pictures of the evening. She told us how Missy came to her as a problem horse. She was dangerous trying to kick and bite people and how touch healed this horse and also helped heal her.
The evening was well attended and enjoyed.
After the demonstration the children all got to come pet the horses.
Below a few of the children are petting the mini that came along as a companion for Missy.
It wasn't just children that wanted to pet the horses.
What a beautiful ending to a beautiful day. If there is a horse in the day of course it is going to be beautiful, right?
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