Chicago Adventure

What an adventure we have had the last few days! It started out very uneventfully and peaceful and restful last Friday when we went to Chicago. Got there in ok time and went to eat dinner at Lowery's Steak House which was really good (the desert, of course, was the best - banana cream coconut pie) and then we went back to our room and watched a movie. We spent Saturday morning sleeping late and then going to Starbucks playing on our computers and enjoying the coffee and pastries and atmosphere and then went back to the hotel and watched another movie and ordered pizza from the famous Gino's to our room. then we went to see "Shear Madness" - an interactive murder mystery theathre which was really fun. It was a very relaxing weekend. Then Sunday morning, Tim went to take his test....he was very concerned about the test before he went to take it, but when he got back to the hotel, he talked to the dr. who had provided all the cases and found out that they had added fake medical problems to several of the cases - one in particular which made it impossible to do in a dental office. He was so angry, I could see the smoke coming out of his ears! I thought he had calmed down and was ok until we got to about 12, 500 feet...it was very bumpy all the way up to there and then I realized that he was breathing very heavily and not making much since talking. He turned the oxygen up thinking he wasn't getting enough but instead, he has decided that what he did was hyperventilate. He could understand everything that was said to him, but he could not make any sense when he talked and his arms and hands were drawn up. I used my therapispts' voice to get him to calm down and then I realized that he had the radio buttom pushed down and was chanting dental terms over the radio, so I decided that I'd better talk to the air traffic controller. We did an emergency landing in Carbondale, Ill., but Tim ladnded the plane himself with the air traffic controller telling him what heading to fly and he even made a very smooth landing! The ambulance and firetruck and sherriff were waiting on us. Tim kept saying, "Just let me rest a minute and we can go on home." I made him go to the hospital to get checked out. In Carbondale, the CT scan showed a little spot that the doctor though was maybe blood on his brain so they airlifted him to St. Louis. I went by limo...no rental car companies were open that time on Sunday, which was just as good becuase I didin't have to find my way by myself.
God moves in mysterious ways. One of our elders, Terry Miller, was in St. Louis, so someone from home called him and he met him at the hospital. Joshua, Tim' nephew, lives in St. Louis and he and his wife went up there so there were all there before I got there. When they did the CT scan in St. Louis, they found nothing. John and Laura also drove over. Finally they put us in a room about 2:00 that night and then Kim and Kimberly from the office showed up and told them they were our daughters so they could get in to see us in the middle of the night. They are so crazy! Brenda Frederick and Leanne Bradock drove up from Memphis. I told them they were putting us in a room so just get a hotel and then come in the morning so that's what they did. Laura and John spent the night with Kate and Josh and after we got the results from several tests and knew there was no anurysm or blood leakage, they went back home. The doctor didmissed Tim Monday afternoon late after taking him down for an EEG himself which the doctor reported was so normal it was boring. We rode home with Leanne and Brenda. It was quite an intersting day and a half. Tim walked down to the nurses station after the doctor told him he could go home and told her if she wasn't in the room in 5 minutes to take out his IV that he was going to take it out himself and leave the hsopital. Didn't take her long to get down there. She was originally from Ripley,TN! Small world!
We also had some visitors on Monday from two of the area churches who were friends of our Sycamore View friends who had called them to go check on us. That was really sweet of them. One of them happened to be Judy Autry's sister-in-law with whom we went to Harding and to dental school with her first husband! Tim has talked to the doctor's nurse practicionr today and has about decided just to go back up to St Louis to see him again in a couple of weeks so there won't have to be a tranfering of records and starting all over. He thinks he'll get to fly sooner again that way...we'll see....Thanks for all the love and thoughts and prayers we got from all over this country! It has been amazing and we feel truly blessed!