Nashville Flood: Before & After

For those of you who live in Middle TN, you have probably been captivated by news footage over the last few days just as I have. We have several friends who were stranded in their homes and others who had significant damage. Because our house is on top of a hill, we escaped the major flooding but if you drive less than a mile down the road and it's a different story. This is the footage from YouTube. Needless to say, the main road to our house is still impassable.

The hospital had 3 feet of water come in the first floor which also led to some minor electrical fires. Of course, you don't think they are minor when you hear code red and see towels being stuffed under your door! Thankfully, the alarm was canceled quickly.

The day before the storm hit, good family friends, Patty Rucker and Jan Gregory, came up to bring mom and I lunch. For those of you who know them, you can guess this was not just any ordinary lunch. There was a devotional for Timothy, prayer time, blue plaid cloth napkins, gerber daisies tied with blue ribbon, and yummy homemade desserts. Truly a treat!!

I think people must have felt guilty that I stayed at the hospital alone during the storm (no one could physically get here for 2 days) so I had quite the entourage show up Monday afternoon. Katelyn and Chad took me on my second wheelchair ride where my skin saw the sun for the first time in over 2 weeks! Mom, Candee, and Brad came later that day to join the party!

The doctors continue to remain positive about how things stand at this point. We have enjoyed hearing Timothy's heartbeat at least once a day and we even got to hear his hiccups one day and him kicking the doppler monitor another. We have been coming up with our own theories about how he feels about all this monitoring. Some seem to think he loves it while I'm not so sure that he just wants to be left alone. I guess we'll have a better idea of his personality in a few months after he makes his arrival!!