Hey everyone – sorry for the delayed post for an update to what it going on. My intention was to write-up a post today in the hospital as Erica slept – but she never went to sleep!
Erica had her surgery this morning and was back in her room by 10am, ready for breakfast! They were only able to place one stitch in the cervix, but the doctor was quick to remind us that it only takes one. If you know Erica at all – you know the “planner” that she is and how everything must be planned W-A-Y in advance. Well, it’s tough on her (me too) to know that we must take this one day at a time.
I want to give some major props to all the nurses on the “Post-Pardom” department at Baylor Grapevine hospital. The hospital is SO full of mamas giving birth that there wasn’t any room for us in the “anti-pardom” (pre-baby delivery) section – so they put us in post…anyhow the nurses have all been super nice and caring. This is like a total 180 degree difference than I experienced in the Army hospital where Zach & Alex were born! I think they actually DO care. Not to mention – they love to just let Erica chat it up!
“Thanks Nurses – You Rock”!
On a side note – it was hard for me to do, but tonight I had to send out the first email I have sent where I had to cancel photo sessions. This is tough for me – I love our business, our clients and the friendships that we have developed from it all. But I do know that I always must keep my family first and they are my priority. So it saddens me to say that we are most likely not going to take any additional clients for 2008 – and we are going to desperately try to accommodate those on the books – but we cannot make that promise. I am so terribly sorry – but I hope that you do understand and know that if there were any way around it, that I would still do all the sessions on the books.
***Personal Note Below***
I am so proud of my wife. She is doing SO well and experiencing so many “firsts” for her. It hurts me to know that she is in pain and given the opportunity to take her pain and place it upon myself – I’d do it with a smile, without hesitation. She is my best friend – when she laughs, I laugh. When she smiles, I smile. So for her to hurt – hurts me. I sit in the corner of the room in the hospital, admiring her selfless soul giving all that she has to better her unborn children. IV lines hooked-up, tubes running here and there, injections, medications – yet, she doesn’t complain (except for the cheese pizza she so desperately wanted for dinner).
So babe – please know that I am so very proud of you and thank you once again for allowing God to mold you into the woman that you are today. You are amazing, loving, beautiful, caring and so many more things that I cannot possibly put them all here. I am honored to stand beside you as your husband and friend.
Love without hesitation….
Jake~
