By the time you read this, my wife and myself should be on our way to the DFW metroplex, where tomorrow morning a surgeon will be helping me lose weight by extracting a defective, rather dead kidney. It used to be the case that one would stay in hospital for several days following that surgery, but thanks to medical insurance regulations and their reluctance to countenance or authorize "unnecessary" expenses (!), the current expectation is to kick me out that same day. Thanks to your generosity, dear readers, if it should look like a better idea for me to stay an extra day or two, I'll be able to afford it - and that's an inexpressible relief, let me tell you!
I'll be grateful for your prayers, for the journey there, the preop workup and tests, the surgery, and the aftermath. Blogging will obviously not be happening for a day or two. I expect to be back online by Monday morning, God willing.
Thanks again.
Peter
Best wishes for a successful procedure.
ReplyDeleteMy prayers for you, Peter.
ReplyDeleteYou're in my prayers...
ReplyDeletePraying for you, Peter. Get better!
ReplyDeleteMay the Lord our Great Healer be with you and the Physicians treating you and may you come out of the Operation with less pain and more mobility.
ReplyDeletePrayers coming your way! We need you back on your feet.
ReplyDeleteHope to have you back real soon. 🙂
ReplyDeleteGodspeed, Peter, my prayers for a successful surgery and rapid recovery! I'm interested in getting your Western series, where are they available, Amazon? Any source that puts more money in your pocket, rather than theirs?
ReplyDeleteGood fortune, good health and blessings to you on your "delete" maintenance.
ReplyDeleteThe germs in a hospital are best avoided if possible.
ReplyDeleteClick your heels together "There is no place like home, there is no place..."
I will keep you in my prayers.
Best wishes and good luck with your procedure.
ReplyDeleteHeal quickly.
ReplyDeleteMy prayers are with you.
ReplyDeleteDon't let them dismiss you before you are sure you can make the ride home and get into the house under your own steam. I had an idiot doctor that was going to send me home when it took two people to get me upright with a walker in the ICU unit. PT had to come in and prove to her that I couldn't climb 5 steps to get back into my house. I was so weak I didn't even qualify for a rehab center.
May the Great Physician watch over you, and work through your surgeon to give you a good outcome and a swift recovery.
ReplyDeletePeter, praying for you both that the operation is successful. 🙏
ReplyDeletePrayers lifted to God for you and yours. And the doctors and nurses taking care of you.
ReplyDeleteI'll be praying for a successful procedure and rapid recovery.
ReplyDeleteThe sooner your out of the hospital the better. I will pray for you.
ReplyDeleteFitty
looking forwawrd to reading your column/blog next week
ReplyDeleteI will say a prayer for you and hope that He will hear it
I alerted my prayer team. Prayer flag raised!
ReplyDeleteTXRed
Prayers for you Peter.
ReplyDeletePraying for safe travels, successful surgery, quick recovery and God's peace on you both.
ReplyDeleteGet well and heal well, take care.
ReplyDeleteIf needed I can smuggle food in. LMK.
ReplyDeletebest wishes... hope to hear you posting soon again, in better health.
ReplyDeleteLeaving quickly is not just about saving money. It's also about germ avoidance.
ReplyDeleteI brought home a life long present from the hospital. Not a nice present. They can have it back if they want. But my prayers are said and I'm assuring myself they worked.
DeleteMake darn sure they take out the correct one. /s. (Mostly)
ReplyDeleteGod bless and keep you and Dorothy, Peter, and may St. Juliana pray for you too... and maybe put a good word in w/the boss.
ReplyDeletePrayers for you and Dorothy that everything turns out better than expected!
ReplyDeleteMy prayers for you, for c clean surgery and a quick recovery.
ReplyDeleteDon't let them discharge you if you don't think that it is safe for you to bring discharged. Yes, it might be more money, you can get that. It is your one and only life.
John in Indy
I hope your recovery is fast and pain free as possible.
ReplyDeleteGive it to God. Be blesed
ReplyDeleteMay God bless you both, Peter, and best of lluck to you, brother.
ReplyDeleteStill praying but a tad concerned. You out yet?
ReplyDeleteI pray for you both.
ReplyDeletePrayers, crossed fingers and toes. SLee
ReplyDeleteDorothy posted on Wing and a Whim that they are back home safe.
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