Hospitalization #1 for 2013...
Our first Hospitalization for this year and we're starting off early... March! Thought I'd share some photos of this non-eventful "retreat". Today marks 5 full days and 9 more to go (if all goes according to plan... and when does that ever happen!?) I was kind enough to only post nice pictures of when Josh was feeling good... I felt it would be too unfair to post a picture of him when he's "under the weather".
Here's a few insights into our "life in the hospital room" and what we do to entertain ourselves (without television - Psalm 101:3)
~Read, study music (Josh decided to learn music notes and is doing great!... I'm completely hopeless I think), read some more, email, write, listen to sermons (http://www.sermonaudio.com/main.asp), shoot the Nerf gun, play Sequence, read our Birds and Blooms magazine, ride the stationary bike in our room (Josh does...I "supervise"), read some more, watch a short film together on the 2ft wide hospital bed, and occasionally get OUT of the room and walk around...
Nothing like Nerf gun practice when you're stuck in bed!
This is the target I drew for him on his glass window
(wall dividing his room from my living quarters, lol)
The "girl" is me...labeled appropriately as ''WIFEY''.
He has to shoot the ''bad guys'' (to the right is a sniper, to the left is a bank robber),
diffuse the bomb below me (by hitting the fuse, not the bomb itself),
and shoot down the drone flying above me...
all WITHOUT shooting my beautiful face (in the center).
A little challenge will do him good! :-)
My preoccupation while in the Hospital?
Why that's easy! ... I journal!
(See Nerf bullets in background?)
Josh, ready to get out of "solitary confinement" (and it's only day 3!)...
or at least get unhooked from his IV for a "walk about"
After getting spoiled by Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, this new hospital is taking some getting used to. No large cafeteria, no Subway open 24/7, no exercise room for Josh (big bummer!), no outdoor prayer garden, no Chapel on each floor, no waterfalls and soothing music in the lobby... in fact, there's not really a Lobby! No break room for visitors, and the list goes on. BUT the staff have been very nice and we're grateful that we're only an hour away from home, instead of 3! This time, too, I'm not working outside of the home... so I've been with him every step of the way! I love that part best.
(Another day down...)
