Bowers Blog: Long Week

Oct 14, 2012

Long Week

The last six days have been the longest that I can remember. I will just have to post our week to give you an idea of how it went:

Monday: We get a call from Worth's family that his grandfather has had a heart attack and was given CPR and brought back to life but was not responding neurologically.

Tuesday: We continue to wait, pray, and worry about Grandaddy Cavaleri. No changes in his condition, not responding to stimuli. Worth's family is discussing options. He's still in ICU in Augusta, GA and it just doesn't look good.

Wednesday: Grandaddy Cavaleri still unresponsive and secondary to his living will, Worth leaves at 5:00am to head to Augusta to say his last goodbyes to his grandfather. I was going to stay here until Thursday morning and then head that way with the girls. I volunteered our family to sell pumpkins at our church's annual pumpkin sale on Wednesday afternoon. It was not the easiest job to sell pumpkins and monitor a 1 and 4 year old at the same time! Thankfully, another lady from the church helped me since Worth couldn't be there, and it ended up being a fun experience and Ellie was even a great helper. Emma just enjoyed climbing all over the pumpkins.

Wednesday mid-morning-Thursday: Worth's grandfather opens his eyes and winks at his wife. Later after his EEG came back normal and he was extubated his first question was: "Where is my pretty wife?" As a family we are praising God for him waking. Our prayers for 3 days had been answered and he was doing fairly well considering. He has a few cracked ribs from the CPR that was given to him (he happened to be in a meeting where a doctor and a nurse were present when he collapsed), but overall he's doing better.

Friday: Mr. Cavaleri is slowly recovering and we are so thankful. On top of all this I planned for a college friend of mine to come visit this weekend with her 2 year old little girl. We cancelled the trip altogether until we found out that Worth's granddad was doing better. Kathryn and Kaitlyn arrived Friday night to lighten the Bowers' household spirits. We had a wonderful weekend with my old friend and her little girl (who I had not seen since she was 9 months old). Worth and I kept Kaitlyn Saturday night so that Kathryn could attend a wedding in Tifton. Our girls had a blast together going to the playground, riding on the golf cart and feeding the fish in the pond in our neighborhood. Saturday night they all passed out to sleep very easily!

For a whirlwind of a week, it turned out to be a wonderful weekend! We are blessed beyond measure, and so thankful for it! We continue to pray for Granddaddy Cavaleri and his healing. He is still in the hospital, but is being moved out of ICU this weekend into a regular room. He is having a heart cath on Monday to determine the cause of the heart attack. Below are some pictures of our time at the pumpkin patch and our visit with Kathryn and Kaitlyn.