Waiting for Ike, Ike, Baby...

So we are just hanging out waiting for Ike. It is surreal to watch all the coverage in Galveston and then keep in mind that there is a storm on the way. And we are sitting here in the path. The time has been productive in that we are getting a lot of things taken care of around here that have needed attention for a bit. Well, Roy is is taking care of a lot of stuff. One thing he did this morning is write out our disaster recovery plan. Got to love a plan man and one who does this type a thing in the daily course of his work.

I am still trying to get my brain around the past 48 hours. Yet the past 48 hours has made sense of the whole summer and how I have felt. It seems things began happening right about the time I went on the Alaska cruise. Roy thinks the stress of making the ship connection and then the stress of getting through the Seattle airport on our way home effected me. Add to this the Sundays that I nearly fainted getting into church. This led to a general weakness that overtook a little bit of me everyday. I kept thinking it was the pain killer medicine I am on for my knees. It has made my ADD life much better yet I felt there was something seriously going on in my personality and outlook. Let's face it I was exhausted, not very social, and getting quieter and quieter by the day, all contrary to who I am naturally. I was so sensitive to comments or actions by others. That is not my normal way of reacting.

So the past few weeks with the mis-diagnoses of pleurisy and the wait for my health to turn the corner, conditions deteriorated and my cone of uncertainty spread out. OK, way too much coverage talk. When my Dr called me yesterday morning to let me know she had found a cardiology practice that would run a echo gram on me, but I needed to be there by 10:00. There was an urgency in her voice that stopped me from saying, oh I'll just get this done after the storm and I heard in my spirit at that same time, if you make that decision, it will be the last decision you ever make. So the adventure began that I wrote about yesterday. I have thankfully pondered how the Lord moved people, circumstances and situations. Just getting a hold of Roy is a miracle. When he came to get me there was an ambulance waiting to take a patient to an appointment. I almost laid down on the gurney and said take me to Memorial City Hospital. The struggle to breath was unbelievable and I kept saying over and over, let everything that has breath praise the Lord! As we went to Dr. Riley's to pick up the order, I asked Roy to pray...out loud. He began quoting scripture to encourage me and held my hand. He called the cardiologist's office to see about a wheel chair. I am telling y'all right now if he hadn't done that, there is no way I could have made it up to the office.

It will be an interesting journey in the upcoming months. I know there is much more to come other than taking 3 pills a day. The Dr told me I will be seeing him every two weeks for quite some time ahead. The news that I had a heart attack sometime during the past few weeks and didn't know it. The last words spoken to me by Chris the technician, ring in my ears. If you hadn't come in today, you would have not made it through the weekend.

Last night was some of the best rest I have had in a long time. Today is the first day I have an appetite and kept food down.

Makes me think of my prayers and questions to God this summer and seems like I am sensing direction and leading. I am thankful although that hadn't really happened until today, about God's timing.

It is 6:13 pm, the wind has picked up, but no rain yet. Roy is restless and is outside walking in the parking lot. He doesn't have anything else to repair or prepare. I've been trying to talk him into ironing a few things for me... It ain't working. Buddy has been especially clingy today. She took a long nap with me and then sat with me for a bit. So her unexpected attack on my legs under the table was a big surprise. She's nuts...

Again, thank you for the prayers and thoughts for me and for us.

I've decided if I want to be interviewed by the media about the storm, I need to black out a couple of my teeth and add some pink curlers in my hair.

this just in! Sheila Jackson Lee has made her first speaking TV appearance. Last night night she stood at the press conference with the mayor etc and you could tell by the look of her face, she wanted to say something, but no one let her say a word.

I've checked in with friends throughout the day. Seems like we are all just hanging around waiting for the inevitable. I'll post again after the storm or when the power comes back on. They are saying it could be two weeks...oh...that's not something I am looking forward to.