Pain With Purpose

This is the first time Gary has had pain that actually has a purpose - HEALING! Gary has had pain that has slowly increased since Christmas of last year. Through his pain he remained dedicated to his family, his job and church every Sunday morning!
Now, things are changing for him.

For those of you who have come to visit us in the hospital know that I joke around with him LOTS about his discomfort and about all the things he is going through right now. I have watched him be in pain for so long and it has really torn me apart. However, he is in pain now and I can make light of it because after months of being misdiagnosed he is finally experiencing pain that is part of a healing process! HEAL AWAY!!!!

Gary is a trooper. As we did some "laps" around the 5th floor yesterday he told me that had he known how much pain he would be in he would have never signed up for this! We are so fortunate that we left our last doctor to find our next doctor that referred us to these surgeons. UCI is a wonderful hospital and the staff and doctors and surgeons have been awesome. Gary is getting great care. The jury is still out as to whether the food holds any kind of merit but hopefully Gary will get to test it out soon. He still has had nothing to eat since Saturday and nothing to drink since Sunday.

Gary's parents left early this morning to go home. They have been here 3X over the past month and it has been awesome having them here for all of us. Don't worry - I will take great care of your boy! I might smack him around a little to keep him in line but we won't be doing wind sprints until the middle of September! :)

Yesterday the boys had a crazy good time with the Marvel's and Muck's at Wild Rivers! Zach got to sleepover at the Merk's and today everyone will swim at Stacy's! I think i will have to join them for a while! I need some R&R too you know!

I will update all of you tonight. Keep praying that Gary's pathology tests come back CLEAN & CLEAR!

Love, Hugs, THANKS and Smiles,
Lisa