It DOES hurt. Loren was moved from the Cardiac Surgery ICU to another area in the Columbia Tower this morning right before I arrived at 11 am. Some of the tubes were removed, but he still is on an IV, oxygen, a catheter and heart wires. He was able to sit up and eat all three meals. On morphine for pain. I asked him, “On a scale of 1 – 10, how is the pain?” It seemed to be a 5 or 6 most of the day, despite a couple of doses of morphine. Again visited him 3x, last two with Esther. He is still very tired and his eyes kept closing. But he was with it enough to understand that Bitsy’s computer crashed this morning.
An email sent out the same day:
Tues pm – just spent some time with Loren this morning. He is much more lucid than yesterday and has been moved to another room/area to recover. He had a good breakfast and lunch and is now resting. Due to the morphine, he kind of drifts in and out of sleep.
If I missed anyone’s email it is because I could not read it on the list we filled out with names, birthdays, ph # etc. Sorry about that! Tobias and Allan, I think you were two of the email addresses I couldn’t read. I hope you all have a great time tonight at the Stobbes house. God bless you Carly, as you talk about God and His Word.
I will be seeing Loren again shortly. No visitors are allowed between 1-3 so that the customers can rest without distraction so I just popped over to the local library so that I could send this. Our love to you all!
Posted on Facebook that same day:
Now that was scary! Driving home in heavy rain tonight from New Westminster, just past the port Mann bridge, a car in front of mine hydroplaned and spun around in circles from the far left lane all the way across the freeway in front of us and ended up facing us in the far right lane. I’m not used to seeing headlights on that side quite so close. I could almost hear the collective gasp from all of us drivers! Thank you Lord!