Hey all. I skipped blogging yesterday because Holly sat up until midnight and watched a movie with me and Sandy. Yesterday morning the nausea was still there, Holly missed her middle of the night anti nausea med. We slept through the night and didnt get it taken. Anyway when she woke up with nausea I had had enough, I called the doctor, told him the situation and he finally changed the percocet to fioricet and scribed more anti nausea meds. Holly took the first fioricet and had no pain and the nausea was GONE!!! She has NOT had nausea since. The doctors all said they thought that the nausea was from the anesthesia and mass dosages of narcotic pain meds, but this on call doctor said that 10 days post-op he is becoming suspicious it is simply the percocet. Finally, nausea relief!!! Praise God!

So yesterday she sat up for four hours non-stop and watched a movie in the afternoon, she ate three decent sized meals, and then stayed up late and watched another movie. The best day thus far!

This morning I took the kids to church and she and Sandy slept in late. Holly woke up and ate a good breakfast and refused to take anti-nausea meds or pain meds, she said, "I dont need them". So she is sitting up now and watching cartoons with the kids! She is acting like a new person, the persistent nausea was slowing the healing process.

The sermon today covered several verses but the main focus was on James 1: 2-8 which is about tests of faith and how God uses them to mature us.

2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; 8he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.

This has definately been a test of faith. God led Holly to find out about the aneurysm, to find the proper doctor, to have the surgery and have it be a success, to arrange perfectly everyone to care for Holly, every little detail of the entire process God was and is there. We have all had tests of faith and will have more in the future, but this one has been the first major one where I had absolutely no ability to do anything about it other than give it all to God. God took care of everything, even the little details that we ourselves had not anticipated. God is Great!