[CS-FSLUG] Prayer request

[Nigel Ridley]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:00:13 -0400
Eduardo Sanchez <lists at sombragris.org> wrote:

> This is pasted from my blog with some minor editing.
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> On Wednesday morning, sometime after my wife and I finished dinner (we
> 
> dine late at night, 9pm being a good time for that) and we were 
> preparing for crash the bed after a stressful day’s work, we got a 
> phone call. It was my sister-in-law, and it was meant for my wife.
> 
> My father in law had apparently suffered a minor stroke. They called
> an ambulance which was due to arrive at the house anytime soon. Of
> course this caused my wife to go ballistic; she understandably wanted
> to be right there with her beloved dad. I had to instill some sense in
> her, telling her that she was in medical care with a particularly
> strong variety of flu, and her presence would do her dad more harm
> than good right now.
> 
> The ambulance took my dad to the Institute of Social Security hospital
> 
> (IPS, after its Spanish name). He couldn’t afford a private
> hospital. He was admitted into Emergency Room at around 11pm that
> Wednesday, so you think that took care of it, right? Wrong!
> 
> My father in law was left in E.R. for hours. He was given oxygen and 
> nothing else. Meanwhile, the whole family was frantically trying to
> get him inspected by a specialist who could determine his condition
> and to which sector of the hospital he should go. Meanwhile, his
> dossier was misplaced and almost lost; his diagnosis was lost; his
> tests were lost. An order to move him up to regular hospital care came
> two times, and two times the hospital beds were took by other folks.
> Another order was issued, to take him to Cardiology, but the E.R.
> droids were raising a stink because the doctor who signed the order
> was not a cardiologist. It was 6pm Thursday, and my father in law was
> still stranded in E.R., without receiving anything that remotely
> resembled proper care.
> 
> My wife was desperate. She went into the hospital to see what she
> could do, despite her health. She called me and asked me for help.
> After praying, I got an idea. I called a doctor, which is the new
> medical director of the Baptist Medical Center. He also happens to be
> member of our church and my student in Sunday School. Well, I called
> him and asked him if he please would call one of his colleagues
> working at the IPS Hospital, asking him or her to take some interest
> in my father in law’s ordeal?
> 
> It turned out that one of this doctor's buddies back in medical school
> 
> was the very Medical Director of the IPS Hospital. After some calls, 
> this doctor called me telling me that the IPS Medical Director was 
> looking into the matter, and he would see that my father in law 
> receives proper care. Soon after that, my wife told me that he was 
> being moved into the intensive care and coronary unit.
> 
> My wife came back home in dire need of some serious rest. I bought a 
> junk-food dinner, we ate, and after hugging her, we crashed the bed. 
> She really slept like a stone ;).
> 
> Please keep praying for my father in law’s health, and my wife’s
> too. 
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Eduardo
> -- 
> Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
> Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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>  Said one--"Folks of a surly Tapster tell,
>  And daub his Visage with the Smoke of Hell;
>    They talk of some strict Testing of us--Pish!
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> 
> 	-- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
> 	   
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Praying for you all.

Blessings,

Nigel

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