1/9/2012
Well today Frankenport is installed. It’ a good things I revisited the
pre-op instructions last night because if I missed this instruction
“Steppbettlaken mitbringen” I would have failed to bring along my personal
fitted sheet for the recovery room bed.
Whew! Saved myself that embarrassment. Strange to those of us used to the U.S. process but it
works.
The anesthesiologist was one
of the most personable docs we’ve ever met. His English was great – his wife’s from Kansas – and he reminded
of a cross between my brothers Dick and Don. The surgeon was also quite accommodating – we’re batting a
thousand so far as to great care.
Surgery seems to have gone off without a hitch and I got them to throw in
removing stitches from my previous lymph node biopsy and expanding the chest
X-ray to a full so as to avoid having another one done for the lung evaluation
doc.
Hopefully all will be followed with a good night’s rest and the strength
to face tomorrow’s challenge.
Assuming I have the strength the challenge is not medical but quite
personal and professional. I hope
to meet with each of my classes and unfold the news for them in a way that I
hope will be best and will reinforce some of what I try to communicate in
Worldviews. This is another
episode of “transition” that seems to be the stock and trade of this place we
call BFA and this community of missionaries but it’s coming awfully early in
the new semester.
4 comments:
Hi Russ,
We'll pray for strength of body and spirit. I know your students love you...take joy in that. "Band of Brothers"
will be praying.
Sounds like you're taking as much control as possible in your days...who knew you'd need to bring your own sheets? Good thing you took all those German lessons!
We've been keeping up through Carl. Have been and will continue to pray brother.
So cool that God is providing good doctors and even the bonus of the one with good English. God gives us even more than we ask or imagine sometimes.
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