Before the Morning

Friday was uneventful for me in the hospital. I felt WONDERFUL! I watched television and walked around the hospital floor. All I had to do was take that Mestinon pill every 4 hours and I was good! Dr. K had no idea what he was talking about. Just write me a prescription for Mestinon and I would be ready to go home, back to work, and back to my normal life by the end of the weekend. I was already planning to go back to work on Monday. I just needed the weekend to rest and I would be fine.

Karen and I were in my room early on Saturday morning when Dr. K arrived. It was the first time I had seen him since I left his office on Thursday afternoon. I wanted him to know that I realized he had saved my life and that I was so grateful that God had brought him into my life. He looked at me with an intently serious face and pointed to Karen, "I didn't save your life. She did. If she had not been such an advocate for you, you would not have made it until next week to see another doctor." Those were some wake up words for sure! He wanted to refer an internal medicine doctor to me. He thought that I needed someone to take care of me during the hospital stay and then afterwards. He asked if he could have Dr. M join my case to be my primary care physician. And, oh by the way, there was one other thing he wanted to talk to me about. Some patients who have MG have a tumor on the thymus gland. He wanted to do a CAT scan that morning to check for a tumor. He said that the chances of a tumor were very small and he didn't think that I would have one. He ordered a CAT scan to be safe. 

Later that morning, I went downstairs for the CAT scan. The technician injected some radioactive stuff to make my thymus "shine". It was a quick and easy process. I never really thought another thing about it. Dr. K said he didn't expect to find anything and neither did I. I took my Mestinon and basically was just hanging out in the hospital. I felt fine when I had the Mestinon every 4 hours. If there was any lapse in the time my symptoms came back with a vengeance. I had no idea what the results of the CAT scan would have in store for me.

More words from Josh Wilson and Before the Morning.

Do you wonder why you have to
feel the things that hurt you,
if there's a God who loves you,
where is He now?

Maybe, there are things you can't see
and all those things are happening
to bring a better ending
some day, some how, you'll see, you'll see