Nurses, and Doctors and the Staff
This time, Filly decided, she was NOT going to be freezing. The room the day before had been at sixty degrees, and Filly had to ask for a blanket in order to stay warm. It had been a heated blanket, super absorbent like cropped terrycloth, heavy and heavenly. She had been wearing shorts and a short sleeve shirt. The room was tolerable at first but after three hours it had become frigid.The blanket made a huge difference.
That was yesterday. This morning, Filly had woken up at Filly had gotten up at four thirty am but had been awake since three thirty.She unlocked the door and smelled the warm humid air that smelled like salt water air at the beach. Warm, humid, salty. She went into the kitchen and put together a snack assortment of grapes, blueberries, Bevita golden oat cookies, and a Kind nut bar.
She grabbed an ice cold bottle of water and added it to her American flag straw basket, and put in a jacket, a sweater, her computer and phone. She checked to see what her balance was at the bank to make sure she was not broke, and had been planning to water her plants but ran out of time. So instead she loaded up the car and tried not to sweat in the outside heat in her thermal leggings, long sleeve hoodie, and fur lined slipper boots, meant to combat the cold indoor air.
Today would be even longer in the cold air and she wanted to be ready. Joel Olsteen had been talking about the second touch. He explained that when people feel like they have given all they can and they are exhausted, that God gives them a second touch…it can be in the form of angels or other blessings but God does not abandon them.
Filly loved that message.
She waited for a moment in the waiting room and decided to get herself some breakfast at the cafeteria. They had eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes, waffles, hash browns, toast, rolls and gravy. Filly got the eggs scrambled, two slices of bacon and the hash brown casserole. It was really delicious. She got two little packets, one of salt and one of pepper and sprinkled liberally.
After eating, she met with the nurses that would be doing the work, and they were friendly and experienced and had on these cute little flowered caps that were cheerful and well made. They talked and made sure all was well and then they told Filly she had to leave again.
So she kissed her dear one and did indeed leave. Filly looked at the clock and knew that she had about two hours so she drove back home and watered all the plants, unloaded the dishwasher, emptied the trash and vacuumed the downstairs. She checked the mail and there was nothing exciting so she set those things on the counter in the Kitchen. She replaced the plastic liner in the trashcan and drank some water.
When she left home to go back, Joel Olsteen was talking about “cause driven” which was about how if a person worked hard to do something for someone else instead of just working hard for oneself, that their was a “crown” attached. Another sermon that she loved.
She got back and parked in a different spot because her spot had been taken since the parking lot had filled up by then. She walked to the automatic doors and then felt the cool breeze from inside hit her but this time it did not feel very cold so she took off her leggings and put herself in the corner of the waiting room.
She had not even been there but ten minutes when the Doctor called to meet with her and give her a report of what had been done. All was indeed well. Even Better than expected. Interestingly there HAD been a second touch because another doctor had joined in to help which Filly had not expected. It was indeed a great blessing to have the second touch.
She had gratitude for the doctors, the nurses, the building, the sunny day, the well wishes of family and friends, and the healing that was available. Filly decided to get herself a little piece of marble cake from the sips coffee shop just across the hall.
A special treat for a special day.
The bible verse randomly picked when she went back home…
Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
Nazareth was a city roughly 55 miles north of Jerusalem. During the time of Jesus, the Jews held those from Nazareth, a city within the region of Galilee, in low esteem. This isn’t seen better anywhere else in Scripture than through Nathanael’s question, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” The surprising answer is “yes.” God chose to have His Son, the Savior of the world, live in Nazareth. “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things — and the things that are not — to nullify the things that are” .
Filly believed that God was constantly turning things around…things that seemed impossible, or hopeless. The bible verse seemed to highlight how good coming in the midst of something held in low esteem, like Nazareth, was not only possible, it was preferred.
She had learned that the facility was not only helping someone for Filly, it was helping lots of people. The immigrants, she had been told by staff, who were flooding into Texas had spiked the numbers visiting the facility, but those working there, still were handling the increasing numbers with compassion and competency. The desire to do good, not just for the healthy but for the sick, the poor and the infirm was a natural human tendency to do good and not evil.
Those who wanted to come into the land legitimately, should have no problem getting documented and screened for the benefit of the residents and for their own benefit. That was what Filly thought. She was grateful to be able to help others when she saw a need, but those coming in to do damage or to destroy, as the violent crime numbers indicated, were not welcome.