3 years post heart failure...THANKSGIVING

Every Thanksgiving these feeling well up in me now..Thanksgiving 2007 Sergio's heart started to fail...

That Thanksgiving in the hospital was probably the roughest, emotionally, of all days for me. The children were all spread apart..and here we were in rainy Seattle in a hospital facing a major giant. But I remember how God made provisions for us and how He made that Thanksgiving one of the best I ever had. First, my grandparents lived close to the hospital and visited everyday..they brought us a pumpkin pie. Then the Mormons (God love em) came and turned the gloomy waiting room into a glorious feast for the families left there over the holiday...I went to thank one of the older ladies and couldn't make it through without crying (crying now as I write this). She held me for a long time and told me she had been in my very shoes and knew what some turkey and mashed potatoes can do for the soul...there was only one TV channel working in Sergio's room that day..and the one movie that was playing was The Holiday..my all-time favorite holiday movie...I climbed into that hospital bed with Sergio..I had a full tummy and my favorite movie and a husband I thought I was going to lose...but for a moment..it was the perfect Thanksgiving...