Wednesday, July 1, 2015

July 1st-- Larry´s coming home!

July 1st: Today is the BIG day...after 99 days in the hospital, Larry is coming home!! I am up early getting the final things ready here at home and getting ready to head to the hospital. It has been a whirlwind trying to get ready...and I sure hope I am!! Larry is SO ready to come home. Every day for the last couple of weeks when I´ve arrived at the hospital he has thought that he was coming home that day and he has been so disappointed to find out that it´s not that day. Won´t he be thrilled to find out that this is actually THE day and that he can leave the hospital and get into the car to come home.
I am so glad to have home health care come, starting today, to help out and am extremely grateful to our children for their willingness to come and take shifts to be here, almost totally day and night, for the first couple of weeks during our transition. They are amazing and wonderful and I love them and appreciate them so much! Mike has been able to be home for a visit and has been such a help to me and it will be so great to have him here to see his dad come home before heading back to Calif. in a few more days. Our ward is awesome and has helped me continually these past three months and I´ll be forever indebted to them for their loving service in our behalf.
I am also extremely grateful for the wonderful doctors and nurses who have cared for Larry with such skill and concern. They are like angels to me in so many ways and I have become friends with many of them. Although we are glad to be coming home, I will miss them greatly and the knowledge that they were always taking such good care of Larry when I wasn´t there. I have often told them that I can see that their work is not just a job to them, it is so much more...and I have felt that every day! We have shared laughter and tears as Larry and I have moved through this difficult journey. I´ll never forget them.
Well, its time to get running...on to the next stage of this journey...ready or not, here it comes!! I´ll try to update again with a pic of Larry as he makes this exciting change. We love and appreciate all of you for your continued prayers in our behalf. I couldn´t do this without them. The blessings of the Lord continue to flow to us because of our petitions to him. He is, and always has been, in charge and I know he measures every minute of our lives and blesses us accordingly. Love to you all.

1 comment:

  1. Larry and Paula,
    Thank you so much for taking the time (with all you have to do) to let those who love you know what progress is being made. We are so grateful that this good man gets to come home where life and surroundings are familiar and will help the healing process. We are thinking and praying for you with much love.
    David and Delynn Heid

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