frustration

Things that make you say... GGGRRRRR
First of all, Allison is doing really well this afternoon and appears to be feeling really good. Today, however, was really frustrating from a couple of different perspectives. #1 in our conversations with the surgeon on Tuesday, he left us with the impression that he was going to take care of quite a few procedures today (5 to be exact) and that we would be presented with quite a bit of information about her hernia and what steps we would need to take to correct/repair that and also about her ability to swallow and process her secretions. That did not take place. Instead, they only took care of 2 procedures and were not able to give us any info about the hernia at all. #2 we were told that the other procedures would not take place until Monday. That means 3 days of just sitting around waiting for answers to questions that we feel we could have and should have gotten today. For Allison, it's not a really huge deal cause she's pretty happy wherever she's at and probably feels great about all the attention she gets here, but from a family perspective, it just leaves us fractured for that much longer. She will most likely be here through the end of NEXT week, if not even longer. Amy has left to go home and spend time with Keala and also to go to an appointment with her cardiologist tomorrow. We are praying for a positive outcome from that visit, though we arent sure what to really expect. She has been having quite a bit of irregular activity lately and we're pretty concerned about it. She will most likely stay home for the next couple of days and then come back up sometime Sunday to switch places again. Jeff would love to have phone calls and/or visits over the next couple days. It would definitely help break up the monotony of the hospital schedule. The phone # in the room is 503-418-5124 and we are on the 10th floor. 10N rm 23.
Along with prayers for Allison and Amy, we'd like to extend this out to another family up here. The Tromblas, Derek (a YCSO Deputy) and his wife Danita, have been up here for 14 days now with their 3 yo son Kaiden (think I spelled that right). He had a real bad pnuemonia that collapsed his lung and they have had a very difficult run of it including multiple surgeries to keep the fluid build up from pressing on his heart. Please include their family in your prayers as well.