Today was a great day. I'll spare the redundancy, read the e-mail I sent out:
From: Brian & Kristi Rogalske [mailto:bkrogalske@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:48 AM
Subject: Kristi Update #6: 1-29-07 - Praises and some requests
Hello again family and friends,
Praise God! Today was the best day so far. She is talking more, took 5 walks, and is taking her pain medicine a little less. The doctor stopped in this morning and said she could be home by Wednesday or Thursday. She is still just on an IV and ice chip diet. Once she passes her first gas she will then start a liquid diet. So, as odd as this sounds, please pray that Kristi breaks wind real fast. Once she does OK with a liquid diet, then she will start real food. Seems like a lot to do in just a couple days, but seeing how far she’s come since yesterday it wouldn’t surprise me. She hasn’t eaten "real" food since last week Monday morning. Can you imagine?! We watched a video tonight on how to change her colostomy bag…that’s going to take some getting used to…not for the faint of heart. She was a little bothered by this. Pray for strength here as it’s not a very pleasant thing to deal with. She’s also getting bed sores real bad…very itchy. She’s pretty uncomfortable. Also, tomorrow the doctor is going to take her off of her continuous morphine supply. She will still be able to give her self a "shot" every 10 minutes, but the continuous supply will be gone. So a couple more obvious prayer requests: 1) for comfort as her bed sores are driving her crazy and 2) that she can tolerate being taken off of her continuous supply of pain killer.
Her mood today was the best…very upbeat. Prayer of thanks! She had a lot of visitors today and that really lifted her spirits. Thank you! She is ready to battle this thing til it’s gone. Please pray for continued healing and that she can return home soon. The kids really miss her. Please pray for the kids as well. Ashley is having the hardest time with this as she misses mom. Kristi knows that the kids are being well taken care of by the neighbors and grandparents (and daddy doesn’t do half bad either), but she still worries about them.
I know I said this before, but how do we even begin to thank everyone…from childcare being coordinated, meals, our house was cleaned today (thanks ladies!!!!!!!), driveway shoveled, people staying with Kristi all night, etc., etc., etc. "How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!" Psalm 133:1. Thank you all so much. Kristi even mentioned typing her own e-mail one of these days. I’ll forward it to you when she does.
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Brian
