I mispell things!
okay guys and girls, i promise this will be the last post on jessica’s stay in the hospital. i say this will be the last because she has now been relased. she’s doing well. it turns out that the negative gram rod bacteria she had was salmonella poisoning. she probably picked it up off the lettuce she ate on a taco. it appears that it was a costly taco to eat.
[tags]jessica, salmonella, poisoning, nicaragua, tacos[/tags]
as i posted yesterday jessica lawrence is presently in our lady of the lake hospital (room 545). yesterday it was thought that she had malaria but turns out that is not the case. instead jessica has a strain of gram negative rod bacteria. again she apparently picked this up in nicaragua. she is still going to be fine. her doctors have told her that they want to keep her in the hospital for a couple of days and pump her full of iv-antibiotics. she should be fine in a day or two. if you wanted to call her or visit her i know that she would love it because she is already feeling much better and bored from inactivity. i spoke with kendra demars today and it appears that rhett is doing well and thus he probably doesn’t have what jesica has. i’m sure they are both thankful for your prayers.
i figured y’all would want to know that jessica lawrence, my assistant and one of the 17 that went on the mission trip to diriamba, nicaragua, is in the hospital right now with the diagnosis of malaria. right now she feels like she has a really bad flu bug. the doctor’s say she will be fine and should be out of the hospital in 24 to 42 hours. i thought you would want to know so that you can begin to pray for her. you will probably want to pray for rhett demars also. rhett has similar symptoms but his test has not come back yet.
part of ministry that i really love is making visits … especially hospital visits. it always seems to happen that i get the chance to be involved within significant moments during my weekly (and sometime more often) visits to each of our baton rouge hospitals. i may not like the traffic getting to the hospitals but 95% of the time i love the visits.
todays visits were not hugely amazing but one was quite funny. i went to visits an elderly woman who could barely hear anything. of course, since her lacking of hearing is more age related than anything she has never consider the possibility of aquiring hearing aides. this means that my short visit with her consisted of my shouting, her responding that she couldn’t hear me, and then me shouting louder. the conversation went allot longer than the content conveyed within it would normally taken. i think all that the lady actually was able to make out from all that i said was “hi!.” of course, everyone else in the wing knew exactly what church i am a minister of and why this lady was on our prayer list.
you may not know this but they don’t really like you shouting in hospitals. thus when i left the lady’s room i was given tons of nasty looks and a couple of “shhhh’s”. i guess they hadn’t been any of the nurses taking care of the lady i visited.
part of ministry that i really love is making visits … especially hospital visits. it always seems to happen that i get the chance to be involved within significant moments during my weekly (and sometime more often) visits to each of our baton rouge hospitals. i may not like the traffic getting to the hospitals but 95% of the time i love the visits.
todays visits were not hugely amazing but one was quite funny. i went to visits an elderly woman who could barely hear anything. of course, since her lacking of hearing is more age related than anything she has never consider the possibility of acquiring hearing aides. this means that my short visit with her consisted of my shouting, her responding that she couldn’t hear me, and then me shouting louder. the conversation went allot longer than the content conveyed within it would normally taken. i think all that the lady actually was able to make out from all that i said was “hi!.” of course, everyone else in the wing knew exactly what church i am a minister of and why this lady was on our prayer list.
you may not know this but they don’t really like you shouting in hospitals. thus when i left the lady’s room i was given tons of nasty looks and a couple of “shhhh’s”. i guess they hadn’t been any of the nurses taking care of the lady i visited.
i’ve been trying to become a runner over the past nine weeks. i committed to cool running’s couch to 5k plan with the goal of running a 5k race at the end of the summer. well i’ve finished the training program and the summer is over so now it’s time for the 5k race. this saturday, after the youth ministry works on mr. lamm’s house, i will be running in the club south runners’ twilight classic.
i wanted to see how fast my blazing self is compared to those that race in last year’s race so i looked at the race results from last year’s run. i discovered that there were 184 men that ran the twilight classic last year and based on their times only 155 would have beaten me. of course, most of the them were either over 80 or below 10 but that doesn’t really matter. more than likely i won’t be the slowest runner out there. there are at least 29 men from last year that are slower than me. in some countries that would make me a speed demon. therefore i believe that i get to taunt the slower runners. ahhh. the smell of nowhere-near-victory-but-still-not-losing.
btw, i also can run faster than 46 of the women that ran last year. i believe i may taunt them too.
No motive, even that of affection for anyone, can justify the doing of evil. But to help someone in need, a good work may sometimes be left, or a better undertaken in its place. For in so doing, the good work is not lost, but changed for what is better. Without love, the outward work is of no value; but whatever is done out of love, be it never so little, is wholly fruitful. For God regards the greatness of the love that prompts a man, rather than the greatness of his achievement.
Whoever loves much, does much. Whoever does a thing well, does much. And he does well, who serves the community before his own interests.
thomas a kempis, the imitation of CHRIST, chapter 15.
the fam and i just got back from seeing monster house. it was okay. the ending was pretty good but it seem to me that the movie took a long time to get going. still not a bad movie, just not necessarily one that i will go out and buy the second it comes out on dvd.
highlights
the summer is almost over and this means that life will calm down to the point that i will begin blogging regularly again. for now a few random thoughts.
i guess that’s it for now.