On Hold

Up and down.  Back and forth.  On and Off again.  This is life in the hospital.  Doctoring is science, to be sure, but it is far from an exact science.  When you really spend time around the medical profession, you realize just how many judgment calls are a part of it.  Sometimes we're tempted to think of doctors as almost omniscient because of all their study and experience, but their work is far from infallible.  This is why our dependence on the Great Omnipotent and Omniscient Physician is so stabilizing.

The neurosurgeons were marking Paton's head this morning in preparation for the shunt placement, when the word came back that there is still sign of possible infection.  They are going to do a culture and hopefully get the results back by this evening.  They're going to watch him carefully for the next couple of days, and try the surgery again probably Monday or Tuesday morning.  So, once again, we wait on the Lord.