This is the view from our seat in the x-ray waiting hallway...there is a large metal door to the right that is supposed to be closed during x-rays, but it would seem on this day, there were so many waiting for their picture to be taken, that the door often remained open. The man at center, in the grey, is actually having his x-ray taken. The other seven people are standing and watching, waiting for their chance to step up to the machine. They were called in as a group, they stood around and watched as each person had their film taken...and all of us in the hallway also watched the goings on. I know where I'll go next time for some socializing..."party in x-ray!"
The Charmer and Bella who came to help translate, gaze into the x-ray room to view the show. Next to Bella, a couple of nuns and a monk who were fascinated by The Charmer and his strange foreign mother.
EKG time...I have had not less than eight EKGs in the time I've lived here. Part of the regular "body check"...The Charmer was a bit worried about the wires and clamps...but then said..."it tickles!"
Another hallway, this time waiting for the EKG. The Charmer kept saying, "ok, I'm done." But we had to encourage him that it was step by step...and we had to keep on.
The Blood Draw table with his contribution, it seems that we will need to do daily draws for sometime.
I'm not sure if these photos are interesting or not. I thought they might help some of you visualize what our experience is currently like, and probably many of you have never been in a local hospital here.
I was thinking this morning about The Charmer. He kept saying yesterday, and today, "I just want to walk." I tried to encourage him and tell him that there are many steps we must go through until we arrive at the day when he takes his first steps. That every x-ray, blood draw, EKG, and "body check" is necessary to go through before we reach the fulfillment of the dream stage. He insisted, over and over again, "I just want to walk." I realized this morning that in my life, through the many adventures and challenges He has led me through, I have so often fussed and complained, "I just want...." In essence, "Hurry up Lord, I don't like all these "steps" you are requiring of me, and don't you know I just want whatever I want at that time!" Yet each step develops me, changes me, readies me for the next phase which might be ever more challenging. I need the perseverance and character built during those middle steps, the ones I want to skip over, to prepare me for what lies ahead.
He's going to have a really hard time through these next few months. It is going to be painful, frustrating, lonely, and overwhelming...but he must go through it to get to the other side.
I wish I could say in such a way that he could understand me that I really do know what he's going through...that I've felt all those things...and that I so often have a hard time trusting through the tough stuff....
Yes, I recognize how childlike I truly am...and I believe that is what I'm supposed to be...though I think it would be so admirable to be tough and capable during the process...
The Charmer, once again, is teaching me.
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