CCC news 2014 July 1
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2014 July 1 Newsletter
Cross Cultural Connection
Dear Prayer Partners and Supporters,
This has been a quite slow month for me. I had eye surgery for a macular hole on June 18 and have been keeping my face down since then! Mostly that means lying down 24/7. I am allowed to look up for 10 minutes each hour! So I really don’t have much to say for this newsletter. I think the pictures will speak for themselves. I am thankful to finally have this surgery done. I decided to not wait another 3 months for the government clinic. I finally got an appointment with a retinal specialist and that will be September 9. I felt that my eyesight was getting bad enough to not wait. So I went to the private dr. I had seen before. I was trying to save money by going to the government clinic so that is one reason I waited. Praise the Lord that several things happened: my father had money put into my bank account, enough to cover the cost, the private dr. made the appointment, and I had the surgery within a week. Scott and Evelyn and Paul Kunkel have been taking good care of getting me to and from Mong Kok and up and down in the elevators. I was able to get good help from Tonnette who has been staying all day since the day of the surgery. We are planning for her help for two weeks. She is cooking and keeping the place clean while I am lying face down. Ken’s long time friend had made a massage board and given it to Ken a long time ago. I have put that to good use during this time. Lying down in a horizontal position disturbs my equilibrium a bit when actually getting up. I have many things to be thankful for. I was somewhat anxious about getting two shots in the eye, which the Doctor said would be quite painful. Hah! I have had many, many shots and that was no worse than any I have ever had. The dr. visited with me while working on my eye. The whole thing lasted an hour and then I was up and on my way home! The most painful thing about the surgery was taking the tape off my face while removing the patch!! I wore the patch overnight.
Ok, enough about me. I mentioned fellow missionary, David Poling, had hip replacement surgery. He is doing very well. I cannot imagine dealing with a wheelchair in their very small apartment, but he was very glad to be home. His wife, Lynn, is dealing with a cracked rib, so that is painful for her to do much on pushing the wheelchair, etc. Even cooking is painful!
A few prayer items for you all, besides David and my recovery times: 1. Continue to pray for my cousin Ranata Byrd whose husband suddenly died in June. My Aunt Vonda also died suddenly about that same time. Their funerals were the same weekend, one in Colorado and one in Kentucky. 2. I will be speaking and teaching at an English Bible Camp in mid July. 2. Future mission trip with Al Corson of Insight Resources, International. 3. My daughter Sara and two of her girls will visit from July 20 to August 3. 4. Praise that our church trip to the Home of Loving Faithfulness went well. Before we had been there very long our people were saying we need to do this again. So we are thinking about Christmas time.
And now for the pictures:
The massage board ready for use.
Waiting on the street for the ride home.
Making good use of the board. Light for reading, tape player, etc. When not lying down I sit backwards in my kneeling office chair and with the help of a special mirror
can watch TV or visit with people.
Joy and Jasmyn enjoying the face down bed.
Jayd knitting while Joy and Jasmyn try out the bed.