Sweet, Home Sweet.

Isaac has always mixed up the saying home, sweet home and said it sweet, home sweet as we pull into the driveway.  I don't think Rob would care how you said it today, he was just glad to be home!


After meeting with the home nutrition rep, Occupational Therapist, Speech Language Pathologist, plastic surgeon resident and the nurse Rob was given the go ahead to leave!  After living somewhere for 2 weeks it does start to feel like home.  Even for me it was a familiar place with people that knew who I was.  Although I didn't sleep there I spent a lot of time there and got to know some staff.  Over the last couple of days as staff left after their shift and knew they wouldn't be back until after Rob was discharged they came by to say good bye and wish Rob the best.  We were always told to come back and visit so we will do that and look forward to sharing Rob's progress with them even after he is home. 


At 12:30pm we walked out of GH5 and began the next step in our journey.  After stopping to pick up all of the home nutrition supplies we drove home.  Isaac spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa so it was quiet when we got home and Rob could get settled in.  Rob walked into the house and headed straight to the couch!  I asked him if he was happy to be home and he said yes and that it was so quiet (something you don't experience in the hospital).  As I loaded 11 boxes of supplies from the car into the house Rob quickly fell asleep on the couch!  The feeling of having Rob home is amazing!  Once Isaac arrived home and the 3 of us were together it just felt so right.  Isaac was so happy to see daddy at home and we were able to do bedtime together.  Even something as simple as sitting on the couch beside my boys is something to treasure. 


To make our day even more interesting our furnace stopped working.  I woke up this morning and thought it felt cold in the house and I knew Rob would be freezing.  When I checked the thermostat and saw the actual temperature was much colder then it was set to I knew there was a problem.  It is times like these that having handy friends is useful.  Our friend John came and saved the day!!  He was able to come over today and fixed the furnace as well as yesterday he fixed our toilet and our lawn mower.  It sure does suck to have all these things break without Rob around but we are very thankful for John and him helping us out.  Tonight will hopefully be the last night we will need heat this spring especially looking at the forecast on the weekend!
Over the next few days we will get our life at home with Rob recovering figured out a little.  We have set up a room for all of Rob's medical supplies and a lot of our time with be taken up with preparing and cleaning the tube feeding supplies.  We will also enjoy some family time just being together.  While recovering from surgery you are forced to relax and I think it will be a good thing for us to just slow down. 
Rob will have a follow up with Dr Nason on June 2nd and he will also see the plastic surgeon and the speech language pathologist in the next couple of weeks.  Please continue to pray for Rob as he recovers that he would be able to swallow and not have to have a feeding tube very long, that the swelling in his mouth would go down, that he would regain full mobility to the arm with the skin graft, and that he would quickly learn how to speak again.  Also pray for clear pathology results and for a complete healing and recovery. 


And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 1 Peter 5:10