This Christmas coming up in a few days may be the greatest ever. It was 43 years ago at this time that my wife Pat and I were anxiously arrival of our child.
Meghan Kathleen didn’t actually arrive until about six weeks after Christmas in early February. We were grateful when she was born.
Fast forward to now. What has taken place in the last week to10 days or so makes us so grateful after she was operated on less than a week ago for a brain tumor.
If I’ve learned one important thing through what has taken place since Monday night, Dec. 9, is that prayers are so abundant and bountiful.
It’s put into perspective and made us think and know what the season of Advent is all about. We have been so focused on Meghan, along with her husband Terry and their son Liam that nothing has really mattered much other than that.
We’ve both lost track of the days at time. While Pat and I both still work, thank goodness for the kindness, compassion and thoughtfulness of those individuals we report to in our jobs.
Both of us have spent quite a bit of time way from work as he was traveled back and forth to Mercy North in Oklahoma City over the last several days.
Meghan, Terry and Liam live in Norman and Terry called for an ambulance a week ago Monday night and she was rushed to the Health complex in Norman on I-35. We arrived there shortly after Terry and Liam and within an hour or so the Emergency Room doctor said a cat scan had shown Meghan had the brain tumor.
She then was taken by ambulance to Mercy North in Oklahoma City because the neurosurgeon on call was there. At one point, they were considering possible emergency surgery, but the medicine they gave her to reduce the swelling quickly began to work to give them some time.
Still, Terry, little Liam, Pat and I didn’t leave that hospital until nearly 4 a.m. and got home just before 5. Pat and I were commenting afterwards that we hadn’t spent an all nighter at a hospital since little Liam was born more than six years ago.
Since then, we’ve traveled back and forth to that hospital several days, We all are so appreciative of the prayers throughout not only this community but others as well. We can’t even start to count the number of prayer lists we’ve been told that Meghan, her family and us are on and that is so gratifying.
Pat and I, along with Terry and Liam are going a short time after I finishing writing this to visit and see Meghan for the first time since her operation last Friday. At the medical staff’s recommendation each day, we’ve all not tried to visit her yet as she began her recovery.
I will probably write a little more about this next week.