More good news!

Today my Dad was accepted for rehab at Fanny Allen! We couldn't be more thrilled. This is the place that is 5 minutes from my house and about 20 minutes from my Mom and sister. They hope to have him there by weeks end. Things went so wrong for so long that this string of "good" feels extra wonderful!!!

I asked my Dad if he still believes God is good. He said "YES!".

I just know bigger and better things are to come from him.......stay tuned.

Time to get ANGRY!

I spent some time w/ Dad yesterday. Whenever I put a magazine or anything else w/ text in front of his face it seems as though he's reading it. I know he needs reading glasses normally and who knows how his vision is now. So I wrote his name, large, on a piece of paper and held it up to him and asked him what it said. He said "Kraig". Then I made a happy face and a sad face and asked him to point to how he was feeling. He pointed to the sad face, of course. Then I gave him the pen, which he held as he should, and he put a circle w/ a line through it on the happy face. While that broke my heart, I was elated to know that he's reading and comprehending, which is amazing!!!! Father, from my Dad's Church visited and when we all said the "Our Father" he joined in with us and blessed himself at the end of it. I can't tell you how happy I was to see that his faith is STILL strong and that he's still praying. That said, he's so ANGRY now. Which we've expected and been waiting for and quite honestly, I am relieved to see some anger from him. I keep reassuring him that it's okay, it's part of the process, that we understand, that we aren't taking it personally and that we won't go away, no.matter.what! I can't pretend, for one second, that I know what it feels like to be him right now. I imagine he's thinking, at this point, that the alternative may have been better. I know in time he'll feel differently. I can't wait for him to get to rehab and to be able to get outside and feel the sunshine on his face, smell the fresh air, see the blue sky, the trees, hear the birds.......something other than those hospital walls and ceiling. This will give him more reason to fight and work hard.

Continue to pray for his respiratory health and that they get him over to rehab this week. He needs that so badly right now. Please pray that he will be strengthened to endure and not give up.

In reading to my Dad I came across the following---which I found meaningful.

Psalm 116:8-9

"For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling,

that I may walk before the LORD
in the land of the living."

Psalm 118:17

"He will not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord."