Month: October 2006

Besides starting her own blog this morning, Laurie should be heading home ASAP.
The doctor gave her an OK for discharge around 9 a.m. and the last call I got was they are still waiting on paperwork.
She’s feeling a good deal better, especially now that she’s had some pain pills and the aneurism was stopped during her operation last night.
The doctor said full recovery will take six weeks or so, but she can go back to work on Monday or Tuesday of next week.
Thank God for His protection and watchful eye. Pray that her recovery and healing goes quickly and easily.
Thanks again for all your prayers!

Sojourners has produced a free guide for the upcoming elections.
Don’t forget, election day is Tues. Nov. 7.

Elections provide critical opportunities to exercise both our civic duty as citizens and religious duty as Christians to put our faith into action. We pray that you will join with us over the next two weeks by engaging your friends, family, colleagues, and church in a broader values conversation!
Imagine the impact we could have in highlighting and uplifting a hopeful set of Christian values in this election season if each of you personally downloaded, printed, and distributed five free copies of “Voting God’s Politics: An Issues Guide for Christians.” With five guides each we could reach 1 million voters with a biblically centered set of principles and values that we believe every Christian should consider in the context of this election…
Because we know that you are active in your faith community, we wanted to let you know about what we hope will be a powerful tool for educating and mobilizing Christians in this midterm election. And we need your help to make sure this free resource is available to as many voters as possible.
What is this issues guide? It is a brochure that outlines the seven themes we believe Christians should consider in Election 2006:

1. Compassion and economic justice
2. Peace and restraint of violence
3. A consistent ethic of life
4. Racial justice
5. Human rights, dignity, and gender justice
6. Strengthen families and renew culture
7. Good stewardship of God’s creation

The guide also includes “10 Things You Can Do Before the Election,” handy suggestions for those who are looking to put their values into action.

Click here to download the guide and toolkit. I wonder if someone across the pond can check it out and see if it would be useful there as well.

From Aaron/CNN:

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Angry villagers in Nigeria stormed and seized three Shell oil platforms Wednesday in the volatile Niger Delta, forcing oil production to be shut down at each one, a spokesman for the oil company said.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC officials declined to say how much oil had been cut off after the platforms were attacked but did say the attack was swift. “We totally underestimated them, they started using these wrestling moves on our employees. It all happened so fast.”
Villagers dancing in the streets were saying they recently learned these wrestling moves from an American outreach group that had recently visited them. “This goes out to my 7 foot friend Blundy!” Narjuah said as he did a piledriver on a Shell employee.
Shell said in statement that members of the Kula community living near Shell’s Ekulama 1, Ekulama 2 and Belema oil pumping stations invaded the facilities Wednesday, accusing the oil giant of failing to meet the terms of an agreement to provide them aid.

Like we said – you never know what kind of impact you might have on someone. 🙂

Hope you all enjoyed.

We can mark one person off my list for wishful bloggers.
Laurie has started her own blog! Amazing.
Seriously. It’s either a really bad influence on my part or I think it might be the influence of her pain pills, but either way her blog is out there in cyberspace as we speak.
So you better not let her slip by without you commenting on it.
I’m looking forward to her daily commentary on working as an RT in a Children’s Hospital.
And of course I’m sure she’ll use it to get back at me for anytime I might have embarrased her on my blog ;-).

I love you Laurie and welcome to “the dark side.”

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First off, thank you all for your prayers.
Laurie had her procedure yesterday. It didn’t go as planned. They couldn’t get the PVC (issue with her heart) to replicate enough during the surgery to see what part of her heart was actually causing the problems. So they didn’t do anything to her heart during surgery. They will change her medicine and hope that makes a difference.
Pray that God will do amazing things and heal her heart despite the outcome of the surgery.
After surgery she was in her room by 2 p.m. (surgery started around 8:45 a.m.) but was in much more pain than expected.
There was also some swelling in her leg where the catheters were put in.
With the pain and swelling the doctor agreed it was best to leave her over night.
She had some rough spots during the night but was able to get some sleep.
She was sick to her stomach for a while which we assume led the nurses to not giving her anymore pain medicine.
She went from 7:30 p.m. till now without any pain meds other than a couple Tylenol early this morning.
This morning he examined her and she had a sonogram which showed a leak in her artery. The aneurysm was causing the pain and swelling and the doctor said something would need to be done for sure.
We finally met with the vascular specialist who suggested a procedure which inserts a drug (with a needle) near the leak and causes the blood to clot immediately around the leak.
He can do the procedure without anesthesia but recommended she use anesthesia because of her current pain and tenderness near the aneurysm.
He arranged the procedure to take place at 4 p.m. today here at Baylor.
So she’ll have the procedure and then hopefully head home tomorrow to start recovery.
She should still be able to go back to work early next week.
Thanks again for all your prayers we all apreaciate everything.
She’s a real trooper and her amazing smile’s only left her face when she’s actually asleep.

Just wanted to pass along a prayer request tonight. Laurie will be going in tomorrow morning to Baylor Hospital for an ablation on her heart, to correct continuing problems with arrhythmia.
Please pray that the doctors hands are skilled and steady and that this procedure will correct any and all issues and will be the last time she has to worry about her heart again.
Thank you all in advance!