Mya post op is doing well

Her surgery was delayed an hour and a half...but now she is done and we are back in her room. Her fixator looks good and all the bones are now fine. Her new bone growth in the femur is excellent. Her fixator is now on the lower part almost to her foot and the broken bone is stabilized... we are waiting to see how she does pain wise and all to see if we can leave. With another big snow coming Dr. Standard thinks we will do fine at home.... so hoping and praying we can leave in a few hours. It had already started to snow at home and we have to mountains to go over so we will see.....

update on Mya

We are at Sinai Hospital ... Mya was admitted and she does have a fractured tibia at the lower pin.... she is scheduled for surgery first thing in the am... Dr. Standard will remove that pin and add another ring to her fixator and add 2 or 3 more pins. She should be fine and this does not add anymore time to her wearing of the fixator. She is going to just have a bigger frame on for the rest of the time and her leg will heal while in it. The roads were terrible coming into Baltimore and they are extremely short staffed here.... the cafeteria also is shut down some so they only offer 1 choice for the kids meal and 1 for the room service for the parent... we are suppose to get another foot starting Wed. afternoon.... so if she is doing well we may try to come home... otherwise we will be here thru Friday and then again we are to get more significant snow on Sat.... I know I said I like snow but even I have had enough .

Paul left Mya and I tonite because of the coming weather and we don't want to leave the kids at home .... he is going to go to the store and buy some essentials....usually he is with me at the hospital so this is a first... and Mya was unhappy about Daddy leaving but she understood... they were also getting her Iv started.... now she is happy on the morphine.... yeah for those pain meds.....

Thank you for your prayers again and I will try to update after surgery sometime.

Prayers please for Mya

Last nite Mya was standing in her walker by Andrew as he was jumping in a swing . He jumped so hard that he made it tip over onto Mya.. it hit her left leg and I am sure she has damaged her lower leg. The bottom pin was bleeding profusely and she has been unable to walk on it... Since we have so much snow - well over 30 inches there was no way we were getting her out or an ambulance in... praise God I was able to get the bleeding stopped and her comfortable. Actually she is on antibiotics and we have all the pain medicine and anxiety medicine. We are not doing pt until we can get her leg xrayed... but from her pain and inability to move her lower leg I do not have a good feeling about it...I have talked with our surgeon's secretary who is getting back to me about if we need to bring her in tonite or in the am... our roads are terrible and it is a 2 hr drive to Baltimore in good conditions. It took our daughter, Molly almost 3 hrs to get to work at the ER . Which is normally no more than 20 minutes drive on interstate 81... We did pay 60 dollars to someone to dig out our driveway so if we have to take her we can get out of our drive.. so please pray for Mya and what could be surgery Monday.... for now she is comfortable and we are doing as much as they could...thankfully we are prepared....

I spoke to Dr. Standard this afternoon... he agreed we were doing all we could for now and as long as she was comfortable it was better to go Monday am rather than venture out on our roads...I will splint her leg for the car ride and will find out in the am what has happened... thank you all for your prayers !

WOW! WHAT A RIDE!

This may become one of my favorite quotes: "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, throughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming WOW! What a ride!

Every season of life has its own challenges and joys, and we are to savor them with faith and enthusiasm.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as you despair... Douglas Macarthur

This was from a devotion this am titled, Aging with Grace....Walk into any bookstore, pick up any popular magazine off a news rack, and you will quickly be reminded of how significant an issue aging is to millions of people. Questions abound:

Am I making enough money to secure a comfortable future? What will I do after I retired?Am I in the right career now? How are my kids doing? What kind of world awaits them? How am I doing health- wise? Will I be active and strong after retirement? How do I keep my mind active and strong. How do I keep my mind sharp and alert?

Improved healthcare, diet and other medical and sociological factors mean people are living longer than before ( except for early Old Testament records of pre-flood characters like Methuselah). Questions of aging aren't just asked by the "old"- and "old" is a very hard concept to define and not just matters of health and money.

The good news is that God has given us everything we need to enjoy life now. Yes, we should plan for and look to the future- the Apostle Paul describes with great emotion how he yearns to be present with Jesus in Heaven ( 2 Corinthians 5:1-10) , but the real secret to aging with grace is how you live today!

The question of how to age gracefully is no different than the question of how to live each day gracefully. Seize the day and enjoy it and live it fully.

God gave us life, so make the most of the time we are given . That is how I want to live my life. I want to experience the thrill of every moment. I want to know I have completed my life using all that I have, enjoying the journey that God has given me....

How about you?

I don't make this too often but it was a great day for cabbage rolls and sitting by the fire

We think the snow has stopped...

It looks like the snow has stopped and the kids are getting ready to go outside and begin the shoveling out... we will have a measure of how much but it is well over 2 feet with drifts over 4 feet. This is a shot of some snow on the roof...we heard that snow on the roof was a problem for some.....

This morning's pictures of the snow

This was last nite before going to bed... here are 2 pics taken this am and it is still snowing hard.....