OVER 2 weeks

My sweet daddy has been in the hospital for a long time. This time over two weeks have gone by since he's been home. He spent Christmas there and returned home New Year's eve only to return again a week later.  He is back in critical care now. He's really weak. It is one of the hardest things I've witnessed in my life. Someone you love so much in so much pain and you really can't do anything about it.  It's hard for me to be here living my life and continuing on with my family while he's there suffering in the hospital and only getting to visit once in awhile.  And if you visit while he's in critical care you can only go in 15 minutes every 3 hours. (My mom has learned how to get more time though because she offers to feed him or bath him so the nurses don't have too and they gladly let her stay!) I thought about taking the semester off but he didn't want me to.  It is possible if he's strong enough this week they will do a huge procedure to put a device around his heart that will keep it pumping for him while he waits for his heart. If he does the surgery he will remain in critical care until he gets his new heart. It could be weeks, days or hours before that time.  And while many have mixed feelings about us praying for a heart-we are not praying for someone to die we are simply praying that if someone does die and that person  is a donor that it will match what we need. I am just glad we live in a time this is an option.