Michael's Hospital Visit!

Last week turned out to be a very eventful week at our house! Last Monday, I went to flush Michael's port a cath (like I do every month) and it would not flush! I pushed a little harder...nothing...so I took out the needle and called Dr. Muenzer. He quickly got us in touch with the surgical nurse and we made a trip over to their clinic that same day. They tried to flush it, no luck so they put some medicine in it to try and help...nothing! The next day we made arrangements to have Michael come over to UNC Children's on Thursday evening and they would do the surgery to take the old one out and put the new one in on Friday. The surgery lasted a little over an hour and when Michael got back up to the room, they checked his blood sugar and it was 44....uh oh..that was a little scary but I quickly got them to get him some coke and he ate pretzels, it came up, the IV came out and we got him quickly under control...I will have to go the recovery room the next time (Jeff lost his recovery room duty..haha)! Anyway, Michael's bloodsugars stayed up and we were able to bring him home that afternoon! He is still recovering...taking it easy as they had to root around and fix some scarring before they could put it a new port so the site is bruised and tender still but other than that, he is great as you can see from the picture! We are grateful for the prayers in his behalf and are very glad that all is now well! We never know what is going to happen from one week to the next around here so we are always on our toes! We are hoping for a very uneventful summer unless the event is Jeff getting a permanent job with great benefits...that would be perfect! Other than that, we are happy and moving forward with faith!!