The last ten days have been a bit of a whirlwind…I attended a Christian Women’s Retreat on Friday and Saturday (April 8-9), I came home early afternoon on April 9th and then early Sunday morning received a phone call from my best friend’s daughter Sarah, and would change the next few weeks of our lives.
Her grandmother has been living with them for several months and has been deteriorating for the entire time. Saturday she became unresponsive, taken to the ER, CT done revealing a large mass, transferred to a large hospital and that is where we became involved.
My friend and I have been friends for several years. When her daughter called, there was no one at the hospital with her mom, and things looked VERY grim. As in there was nothing that could be done. However, we all know the power of prayer and that when we storm heaven’s gates, that miracles can happen.
After I received the call, I called the church they had attended to get the prayer warriors on the case. I also asked if they could get someone to the hospital to be with her. Within three hours they had someone there!! The hospital is about two hours from here, four and a half from their home.
As the day went along Sunday I talked to both mother and daughter several times trying to help in whatever way I could.
I made arrangements for all but ,my youngest child to stay with friends and family so I could be at the hospital on Monday, however God was bigger…
Late Sunday…around 10 pm we found out that the tumor was operable, and we pulled back on my plans for Monday. I would be needed the day of surgery. When you have six children, it can be hard to be away for too long. 
So, we on Monday we got a definite answer that the surgery would be Tuesday afternoon. This allowed enough time for family to get there.
Sarah, left her hometown early Tuesday morning, I dropped off children here there and nearly everywhere, met Sarah at our house and we headed into town to see Grandma, and be there for the surgery. Our plan was to come home that evening…however, our plans are not always doable.
They took Grandma Ruth back for her surgery around 3:30. They said the surgery should take two to three hours. However, seven then eight and nine pm rolled around. At about 10 pm the surgeon came out to say that she made it through the surgery fine, and that he was able to get what he believes all the tumor. However, the tumor was more like a watermelon as for texture—hard on the outside. It was a little bigger then an orange from my understanding.
It would be another hour and a half before she was moved back to her room. So, Sarah and I didn’t go home. In fact we had an adventure. Since our plan was to go home, we were rather unprepared…won’t be letting that happen again.
We took off for a Wal-Mart to gather tooth brushes, a few snacks, and such. We didn’t have any trouble getting there, but we were in a not so pleasant area of town…please not we are hicks and proud of it.
So, we decided to take a little different route back to the hospital. At some point the street we were on change names and took us the wrong way. (the city we are in is over 350,000 people, I live in a city that is 1200 county the cats and dogs, Sarah lives in a little larger town, neither of us are what I would call familiar with the city…we can get there, but we have fun turning around).
As we are driving I look for the river we are supposed to be by, it is supposed to be out my passenger window, but it is out the drivers window and flowing the wrong way. So, I take the first street I can to go around the block..but umm that was a bit scary…as in obviously a very BAD part of town. We have now learned I CAN flip a u turn on a dime in the middle of the street driving a 15 passenger van.
We headed straight for the Hotel and convention center that our annual homeschool convention is held. We were going to get directions and get ourselves back to where we were supposed to be. lol
So, I get the directions and we head off where we are headed to find that the street we are told to take is one way the wrong way…no, we are not making much progress. We did finally make it and made it safely
We were able to stay in the girls room at the motel the family had been staying at. We woke bright and early Wednesday to find that Ruth had had a GREAT night. When we went up to the room, she was responding to us a little. I think the highlight of our visit was getting to see my two year old Hannah. I had her in the Mei Tie, and Ruth watched and watched her with a bit of a smile on her face.
During our stay, my husband Brad used Sarah’s pickup to transport our children as it seats more then the two his does. He found out that the radiator was not working and was able to fix it for her.
We came home Wednesday late afternoon which was also our Heidi’s sixth birthday. We quickly whipped up a cake, and wrapped presents in time for a birthday party that evening.
Sarah left yesterday morning to go home, and guess what…
RUTH is going back to their home town tomorrow morning to a rehabilitation facility.
How Great is our GOD? Yes, He is that GREAT, and even better!!
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Thank you for sharing with us, so that we can also pray for Grandma Ruth. I need to be reminded just how powerful our God is, even though I KNOW He is great. Know people are praying for all of you.