The surgery went well. They drained 300 cc's of fluid from his heart and continue to have a tube in draining. An additional 200 cc's came out yesterday.
They believe that it is a virus that has attacked his heart. We will know for certain when the labs come back.
His heart is quite inflamed and has been in A-Fib a bit here and there. They are regulating his rhythms with many meds.
The heart is one issue, then there is his asthma. From all of the fluid in his heart and lungs he has not been able to breathe. A normal persons lung cap is around 80-100%, an astmatics 40-80%, Scott's during all of this 30%.
In addition to Scott the girls are ill as well. Fevers of 103, Maya is on antibiotics and is on the up hill swing, her fever is down and she is healing, she is too young to really get what is going on, so she is pretty much herself.
Ella is currently 103 fever, and miserable, I just gave her more motrin, stripped her down, and have her sleeping soundly beside me.
She is grieving the absence of her father. Up until yesterday, I have been telling the kids that daddy was at work. She has been asking questions about where daddy was daily, but I was able to keep it light and redirect. Yesterday she met her breaking point, frantically grabbing me sobbing from the heart asking when she would see her daddy again. Calmed her and then later in her high chair she sat expressionless, stoic, with tears just streaming from her eyes.
I decided to tell her that daddy was sick and he was at the hospital getting all better. Seemed to have helped we could then refocus on all of the fun things we could do to make daddy feel better.
Our neighbors have been great with caring for the girls, and a lady at the y. I have had to have them spend the night a few times, and scotts best friends, Dale/Boston and Steve/Chicago have both been in. Dale is currently staying with me, and will be here thru Thursday, he will stay if Scott stays in this condition. (He is in TCU)
The seminary has been great we have already been given some $. I have been and will be off work for about a month and with the loss of my income and the medical bills, well lets just say they are going to be a couple of bucks.
Oh and if this all isn't enough, I was in the guest room changing the sheets for the next round of help coming in and I was getting wet from a leak in the roof. LOL. We knew we needed to replace the roof from some storm damage some time ago, but we put it off as 10K is not just laying around. Well, I have a roofer coming today to put a new roof on the house, and have not told Scott about any of it. When he gets home he will have a nice new roof over his head. I just had to laugh, because literally the roof was caving in around me.
There was a day when, I was just pissed at God, I was like, "Is this a joke?? I am 37 years old and our 6th wedding anniversary is the 27th of this month, my life is just getting good! How dare you mess with this now or ever?!" My husband and 2 children are ill, my roof is falling apart and I am alone and sick as well. But I can tell you first hand that the power of prayer is not only real it is palpable.
Yesterday I felt so strong and secure I felt as if I could conquer the world and heal Scott myself and carry him home on my back. God is good, I am blessed with great friends and family, and it is in a time of crisis where you really get to know yourself and what you are made of. I always knew I was tough and strong, and lets just say that I will never doubt myself again, cause I am doing it and doing it well with His Grace. This all started on the 15th of Feb, today is the 3rd of March. It has been a long time, and I just pray and wait for our lives to get back to the way they once were (perfect to us) only better!
