Saturday update

Posted on January 22, 2005 by Matt Todd

Christy’s step-mom stayed at the hospital last night. She called us at 10:00 this morning…right after I put all of our jeans in the washing machine. She told Christy that her dad was awake, talkative, and asking where Christy was. So, I did my best to get the clothes rinsed off and my jeans dry. It still took about an hour, but we hurried to the hospital.

They extubated him sometime this morning (obviously, if he was talking), and he looks the best he’s looked since we got here. Sure makes you hopeful that he will actually survive his hospital stay, in spite of the actions (or lack thereof) of some of the staff there!

The kids went up to see him again today. Aly was a little more scared. She didn’t like the oxygen tube in his nose. Aiden was just as happy as could be. I know it made their Papaw happy!

Surgeons are supposed to look at his hip on Monday morning (you can’t get sick in that hospital on the weekend…everything shuts down!), which means they will probably fix his hip on Tuesday. Hopefully they won’t have to push it back as much as they pushed back the pacemaker! After the surgery, he’ll be there two more weeks for rehab, then he gets to come back home!

I’m leaving tomorrow morning to come home. One of the reasons I came to Emmanuel was to take stuff relating to church planting. If we could help it, we really wanted to avoid my missing the church planting seminar next week. Christy and the kids will be staying here. It’s funny – several months ago when we were talking about my attending this seminar, we discussed the possibility of the kids coming up to Indy that week to spend some time with family up here. Christy could work (or take the class if she wanted), and I could attend class. Never in my wildest imagination could I have concocted such a scenario for this week! The kids still got to come up to Indy, though! Funny how things come together sometimes.

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Howdy. I'm Matt. My wife, Christy, and I have four kids and two dogs, I'm passionate about orphan care. I'm a die-hard fan of the Evansville Aces, the Indiana Hoosiers, and Star Wars. I'm trying to live life by the Todd family motto: "It behooves us to live!"