I thought I had posted the update from Sunday but alas, it turns out I had not. So in the order they were posted, here they are. Please note that they are edited for clarity, privacy and confidentiality.
From Sunday
Today was another long day. It started with my 7:45am arrival at the hospital. Sean was in the hall with a nurse and CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) and he told me that he fell down. They had put him in his wheelchair and left him in his room. He wheeled himself past the nurses station and out to the patio where he got his wheel stuck in the grass so he tried to stand up to move his chair and he fell down. He said he tried to get up for a long time. I don’t know how long he was out there but finally another CNA spotted him out a window and came to the rescue. Thank God he wasn’t hurt but it was very frightening to consider what could have happened. We now have him on a one-on-one with a CNA 16 hours a day. We will cover from 11am to 7pm.
I’m tired, so tired. Tomorrow Vince will be home and I hope to be able to write a more thorough upbeat update. I’m just too tired to write more tonight.
Please keep praying beautiful people because God is great and He is listening.
Love,
Terri, Vince, Sean, Kiersten & Kyle
Break day
Posted Tuesday at 7 p.m. PT
Yesterday after leaving the hospital at 5, (Kiersten was with Sean). I came home to find Vince about ready to work on the much neglected lawns and I was ready to dig in to the hospital bills to find a game plan. Instead I talked Vince into hanging out in the pool with me. It was the first time I have been in the pool this summer and the first time that Vince and I have truly relaxed together in 9 weeks. After that we went to the hospital to help Sean with his shower and say goodnight. Then we went to some friend’s house and had dinner and relaxed.
I feel much calmer today then I have in quite some time. I have been able to get things done without the feeling of impending doom. I told a friend the other day that I really don’t like the person that this situation has made me become lately. I’m not beating myself up over it but the stress of the last two weeks really hasn’t brought out the best in me. I’m edgy and lack patience in a big way. I have taken very little, if any time to connect with God and I feel it.
Just allowing myself some down time yesterday showed me that I need more of that. I was talking to Vince a couple of weeks ago about life returning to normal. It’s just that when you go through something like this you can never return to your old normal so you are faced with the challenge of carving out a new normal. I think that if you do it right and allow God to lead then the new normal can be better then before. I wouldn’t ask God to throw this in our path and I don’t believe that He did but I know that He can and has carried us through this and He can shape us and guide us and our lives can be bigger and richer than before. It’s all about trusting in and leaning on God, and when life gets crazy like it has the last two weeks we have a tendency to neglect to connect and the the crazy becomes chaos. All of this to say that I need some time with my Father and I know that He has better days in store for us.
Sean is continuing to blow people away. He is doing incredible. But he is bored. He wants visitors so bad and has had very few. I think that everyone is trying to respect our space. Well here is the green light people. If you know Sean whether you are a personal friend or a family friend please stop by and see him. Also [to Sean’s ICU] nurses, he may not remember you but I know he would love to see you. We have talked to Sean and told him what you did for him. [For further information, please leave a comment along with your current email address – none of which will be published – and you’ll be contacted.]
Gotta go for now. As always thank you for your love and prayers.
Love,
Terri, Vince, Sean and Kiersten
P.S. Robert and Joan words can’t express our gratitude.
P.S.S. Thank you lawn gnomes!