Surgery etc

It was an interesting week last week. First at BSF, I ran into a friend who I hadn't spoken to in almost 10 years. We were very good friends and our sons were friends; then something happened, we disagreed, and never spoke to each other again! It wasn't too hard, her family changed scout troops and I started homeschooling around the same time so we never ran into each other. However, periodically, I would think about her and think that it was one of the things in my past that I regretted -- I regretted that our friendship had ended so badly. Occassionally during the last seven years at Bible Study something in the lecture would remind me of it and I would pray that she was ok and that God could help me get past it. Well God does work in His own way and who do you think started going to BSF this year! So I talked to her and we hugged and put the past behind us!

That was on Monday. On Thursday, Mark mentioned that his stomach hurt. Then while he was driving home from work he said that his stomach hurt real bad and he was going to the doctor. I went to work and he came home and said that the nurse practitioner that he saw ruled out apppendicitis but he would go have a test on Monday for something else. I texted his sister who is a wonderful sister and (more importantly at the time) a nurse. She went over and realized that he probably should go to the ER. I met them there later where the doctor looked at him, poked a litte, and told us that he needed his appendix removed. So he went in for surgery around 10:30 and now is appendix-less. Friday he stayed at the hospital until his doctor told him that he could leave. Fortunately they were able to do it with laparoscopy (sp) so Mark is well on to the road of recovery.

Yesterday I rode with Mark to West so that he could go to a Boy Scout meeting. I didn't think he should drive but he insisted so I was just there. West isn't the most exciting town to spend three hours in -- but they do have good kolaches.