The words below were perfectly timed - as we let go of the idea of surgery and instead - come to grips with more waiting.  Waiting and hoping for God to heal.  Waiting for the next path to take with Cody.  Waiting for life to get easier.  My friend sent me the entry below - hope you find it inspirational as well.  It's from a study she's doing on Ruth.

"Wait" (yasab/yashab) means to sit down, to dwell, to inhabit, to endure, to abide , to stay, to remain.
Naomi is telling Ruth 
"Sit still. There’s nothing more for you to do."

It follows that if Ruth sits, she has to wait. Waiting and being still imply confidence that what is hoped for will be done and it is reflected in patience. Ruth would have accomplished nothing by following Boaz around Bethlehem, trying to help him keep his promises.  Human nature frequently seeks to "help God out"; but generally when we so so, it doesn't help and can even make matters worse.
Patience is hard for people who drive to the One-Hour Photo Shop, take their clothes to the One-Hour Cleaners, and get breakfast at a drive-through window.

Hymn writer Phillips Brooks admitted,

"The hardest task in my life is to sit down and wait for God to catch up with me....The trouble is that I am in a hurry, but God isn't."

Haven't we often felt the same? Yet patience is part of God's strategy for maturing us. It's a lost skill we all need to cultivate.  If you have no joy because you're always in a rush, slow down.

As Torrey wrote

"Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God, and wait; Although He seems to linger long, He never comes too late."

God is never in a hurry, but He is always on time. God stretches our patience to enlarge our soul.  Recall frequently to your mind that God's timing is always right—and then rest and wait patiently for Him for our unknown future is secure in the hands of our all-knowing God.

George Matheson wrote,

“We commonly associate patience with lying down. We think of it as the angel that guards the couch of the invalid. Yet there is a patience that I believe to be harder—the patience that can run. To lie down in the time of grief, to be quiet under the stroke of adverse fortune, implies a great strength; but I know of something that implies a strength greater still: it is the power to work under stress; to have a great weight at your heart and still run; to have a deep anguish in your spirit and still perform the daily tasks. It is a Christ-like thing! The hardest thing is that most of us are called to exercise our patience, not in the sickbed but in the street.”

To wait is hard; to do it with good courage is harder