Day 316 - April 28 - A Doctor with hope?

Who ever heard of such a thing? Not me, at least not in the last 10+ months. I've spent far too long listening to doctors who can only cite statistics and who seem determined to squash any hope their patients might feel, so yesterday's visit with the woman who I will dare to call "Connor's new doctor" was a welcome breath of alternate viewpoint!

We arrived for our 10:30 appointment on time, and waited for a bit in the waiting room before we met the doctor - but we stayed in conference with her until past 12:30! When was the last time you had a doctor's attention for more than five minutes? Yeah, me neither. So I was mildly astonished to see her so engaged with Connor's situation.

Even better, she immediately pinpointed a handful of reasons why it doesn't make any sense for Connor to be on the ventilator, and by the time we left we had been started on a regimen to get the boy of this d#$@%&n vent. It was marvelous.

She was very straightforward and deftly directed all her conversation to Connor instead of to me and Cherié (as it should be, but often isn't). She wasted no time in directing Connor in areas he needed to improve his own knowledge in order to get the most out of his treatment, and he responded very well to what was probably a fairly uncomfortable situation for him.

She actually slowed us down on the vent weaning - the way we were trying to do it was putting Connor at risk of overexertion (how were we to know? - nobody would tell us!) and she wants to see slower steady progress to limit the chances of sickness from tiring himself out. So we've got a new set of tasks to perform twice daily until he gets off the machine.

In addition to all that, she was pleased to hear about toe movement, hand movement, and shoulder movement. She asked tons of questions, and we came out of there a bit tired out, but overall we were very pleased at the outcome of this initial visit.

And to top it off, she understood our viewpoint on Connor's healing perfectly! Her responses to things like "he moves his fingers" were heavily weighted toward "Praise the Lord"! Again, when was the last time you heard that from a doctor?!!

So, we wanted to say "thank you" to y'all for praying so diligently for this situation, and an even bigger "thank you" to God for orchestrating the whole thing.

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:19

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