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Villagers take over oil platforms

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.

Re: Five bloggers

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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Update on Laurie

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.

Prayer request

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!