Her sixteen day journey in patients now changes into a lifetime of hope.

Nothing moves at a farmer’s pace in the hospital. Decisions have to go up the ladder and back down before actions occur. Boundaries, a chain of command, job authority, territorial responsibility, and all the other descriptions of how individual employees in such a large organization are forced into little boxes, make it tough for the common person to deal with things happening at such a snail’s pace. Thank God for those staff members who step up and reach outside their boundaries.

When the ‘Grey’s Anatomy Crew’ came into her room this morning, they all said they have never been happier to visit a patient as they were Suzanne this morning, since she was getting to go home. They also shared more good news about her healing. The throat scope yesterday revealed that the hole in the back of her throat that Dr. A has been so worried about, appears to be an optical illusion of skin depressions and shadows and is healing well. Additionally, they also shared their belief that Suzanne won’t have her Tracheotomy as long as previously expected.

Today, her G-tube was changed out for a new one, but they waited until late afternoon to do it. That meant, just like any other time we enter the Rush Campus, we end up hitting the road home just at the peak of rush hour. When that time came, her nurse hugged her and many of the staff wished her well.

To everyone who has prayed, called, sent cards, messaged, or telepathically encouraged Suzanne through these 16 days, my deepest & sincere Thank You! Her journey is in its infancy. The physical and mental challenges she faces are mind-boggling to me as she learns to speak, eat, and live among the rest of us in the life that is now uniquely hers.

For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
Acts 17:28