I love surgery. Today was our last day in the theatre and the last two days have been nothing short of crazy awesome. Yesterday they only did two surgeries... today they did eight. Yesterday's surgeries were so incredibly interesting. The first surgery was an elbow exploration where the patient was having extreme elbow pain when he moved it. It turned out he had a bone spur in his elbow-- ouch. The doctor took out the bone spur and hopefully he will start to feel better soon. The second surgery was for this 18 year old girl who had a tumor behind her eye. It had started to move through her sinuses and into her nose as well as through her skull... getting closer and closer to the pituitary gland. The tumor had pushed out her eye about an inch from the head... so she had one protruding eye and one normal eye. They cut open her skin on her head and peeled it back so they could get to the tumor. After they took it out, the eye slowly started to sink back into the socket. It was a 4 hour long surgery and so crazy to watch. Like I said... I love surgery.
Today we did some orthopedic surgeries. I put in more IVs and intubated another patient. My sweet lovely boy, Micheal, had surgery today and he is going to be so happy once he wakes up! You see, his legs have been connected for the last 5 weeks and he has been bed-ridden. Today they disconnected his legs and he is on the road to recovery... when he was waking up I was talking to him and he asked "are my legs apart?" to which I responded "yes, Micheal... they are not together anymore" ...he just smiled and breathed a heavy sigh. He then put his head to the side and said "thank you, Kristen." What a rewarding moment... it makes my heart swell to think about it.
Another exciting thing that happened today is Shephard went home!!! Please be in prayer for the little man... he lives with his grandma because his parents abandoned him once they saw he had club foot. Please pray he doesn't get any infections at home and that he feels loved and comforted... the people here were his family and he knew he was loved!
I continue to feel more and more at home here every day. It is going to be so strange to be back in the states, walking around Southlake Town Center, doing everyday things. Everyone said this trip would change me-- I have a feeling that is going to be true, especially once I get home. Many people have told me I am going to meet my husband here-- bad news-- haven't found him! I don't want that to consume my thoughts, so please pray that God is the only thing on my mind. It's so funny... Chuck Swindoll says on one of his discs about David that when you're single, you look at a group of people and say "surely one of God's anointed is in front of me..." I think of that and laugh because similar thoughts pop into my head. All I truly want is the man God has for me at the time God wants me to be with him.
That's all for now... I hope you all are extremely well!
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