Day 100!!! (Pre-Op)

We've made it 100 days with the TSF on.
It's been 14 weeks & 2 days...
Only 5 more "sleeps" until it's off.
Josiah & I start school each day with our calendar, and he gets more excited with every day that brings us closer to October. He keeps talking about all the things he's going to do once it comes off.

Two of his church friends gave him cards this week-- so sweet! They have been wonderful examples of unconditional love, acceptance, and compassion.

This fixator has been a wonderful teaching tool. It's stretched all of us as it stretched his foot!

Praise the Lord for his faithfulness in the midst of trials.

We can't wait for Tuesday!

The pre-op appointment was uneventful, though it's always nice to see Dr. Nelson and his team. His resident informed me that the scheduling dept. scheduled 20 patients for the 1pm-2pm hour. RIDICULOUS! It's out of their hands even though the doctors themselves plead for them to spread out the patients. That's 3 minutes per patient! MADNESS. It's good to know that they feel the same way and are not aloof about how inconvenient it is to spend an entire afternoon there.
We also had to go to PACE (pre- anesthesia appointment. There they have us sign all the paper work, pay our co-pay for surgery, take Jo's vitals, and go over his medical history to make sure he's capable of handling the operation. What's frustrating is that they did all this 3 months ago... nothing has changed. Can't they just ask me on the phone if anything has changed? O well... at least the day of surgery it should go smoother with all the paper work and insurance stuff out of the way.
One sad/funny thing that happened is that the nurse had to prick Jo's finger to see if he was anemic. (Last time he had to go for blood work, so they didn't do the finger prick). Josiah did know what was coming and I was talking to the nurse practitioner and didn't know the nurse was doing it right then. O. My. Gosh. You would have thought the nurse cut his finger off with the way he screamed and SOBBED. I know it hurts, but, man! I thought maybe his tolerance for pain would have increased by now... I shouldn't laugh, but it was a bit funny to me how dramatic he was over a finger prick when he has 8 pins going through his foot, shin and toe!

He was pretty mad about that.... the whole way home.

Poor guy.

We'll all be glad when this ordeal is over.

I pray we all agree it was worth it when it's all said and done.