Surgery tomorrow (Samuel)

Back to blogging and yet going to keep this super brief.

We are at Shriners Hospital in Portland with Samuel tonight. Early in the a.m. We’ll get him up and bathed for the second time in anti-infection solution. He will be having a couple of procedures that will hopefully increase his mobility and decrease the discomfort he has been having in his left leg.

Just wanted to jot down two big blessings that we experienced during pre op today.

First, he knows how to put on such a happy brave face to anyone outside our family. One way God has seen to care for Sam has been to lead us to Shriners where it is standard procedure (we were told and saw on the intake forms) to have three options stated to gauge patient pain levels. One is verbal, one is facial and the third is by observer. Well considering we have had to explain his pain tolerance and brave face to mot of the medical professionals we’ve come across, this was an enormous answer to a need that Samuel has. We checked “observer”!

Second, the anasthesiologist has offered five levels of pain management (fifth covered by the surgeon post op): versed drink, gas, IV drip, and epidural-like freezing and finally oral pain medication. HUGE answer to prayer based on what we’ve been too by BTDT parents.

One day soon I will record more of the amazing ways we’ve seen God work these passed couple weeks. For now it’s enough to know He hasn’t forgotten about this little fellow that has travelled so far in such a short life. He’s in the details and I’m going to be watching for Him all throughout the day tomorrow.