It has been an emotional few days. On Saturday June 23 Nancy was admitted to the Crozer Chester Medical Center with internal bleeding and an elevated heart rate. I talked to her Sunday morning and she was ok and waiting for her doctors to come in on Monday. Mark and I went to the hospital at about 11:00 am for visiting hours. As we walked through the hospital I heard on the PA system something about room 4504 (that was Nancy's room). When we got to the room there were many people in the room and the hall. We spoke with a doctor who told us that Nancy had collapsed and had lost a lot of blood. She was being moved to the ICU. We waited until they moved her and we had a chance to talk to the ICU doctor. Dr. Williams told us that Nancy would be sleeping most of the time so we left for Virginia so Mark could go to work on Monday and I could pick up clothes and the pills I take.
Monday morning at about 5:30am a doctor from the ICU call to give an update, which was not encouraging. I left VA to come back to PA. When I got to the hospital Nancy was awake but not too alert. The doctors said that Nancy was not well enough to withstand any type of testing to determine what was causing the bleeding. The plan was to wait and see.
Tuesday Nancy slept most of the day. The report was she was stable but critical.
Wednesday I walked in to find Nancy awake, alert and ready to give me a to do list. She is still critical but it looks like she is progressing.
I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. God is amazing. Nancy lives alone and if Mark and I hadn't been visiting who knows what might have happened. God put is here so we could get Nancy to the hospital and be here to support her.
It does seem that God put us in Nancy's neighborhood for a good reason. I am also very glad that we were there last week. This has been a week of re-ordering our priorities, to good effect. We look forward to coming through this difficult period with God's help and many more years with Nancy in our family.
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