Jess is still trying to pass the kidney stone(s). She had an appointment with a Doctor today and was told to keep doing what’s she’s doing and if she still hasn’t passed it by Wednesday she is to schedule a CT Scan to get further information on this “rock” causing her such pain.
Keep on praying for her and the other two members of this household! Thanks to all who have called/e-mailed/visited to check in on us!
Got a call this morning from my wife letting me know of her terrible night and visit to the Urgent Care Center this morning.
She’s now in a Vicodin-induced nap-mode and waking often with extreme pain from a kidney stone!
Please pray for Jess! (and pray for Ella as Daddy tries his hand at a couple hours of single-parenting!)
Our pastor’s wife, Wenda spent much of the day with Jess and she is the one who took Jess to the Urgent Care Center. Pastor Gerry happened to be in Milwaukee this afternoon to pick me up at the airport, too! God has given us some big help!
It helped that Kory “dared” me, too…
I grabbed a boiled crawfish off the buffet on my second-round and brought him back to the table and attempted to act like I knew what I was doing. I pulled his tail off and sucked on the meat that looked very similar to meat that we used to extract from our crab-feasts while vacationing on the Delaware Bay as a kid. I then opened up Mr. Crawfish’s belly and ate something that resembled a meaty-like substance but didn’t taste all that great.
I finished my crawfish and it wasn’t 2-seconds later that a lady sitting a little ways away from us spoke up, “You don’t know what you’re doing, do you?”
After a sheepish laugh, I answered, “No” and she offered to get a couple more to show me how to “properly” eat a crawfish.
I was so excited I nearly ran to help her get our “specimens”.
She quickly returned with a bowl of three crawfish and told me to take one and “follow along”.
Who knew there was a shrimp-like piece of meat readily-available to extract from the tail of a crawfish? Not me – but I do now!
She also politely told me that I probably shouldn’t have eaten what I took out of the belly of this mini-monster. Funny how I found that out after the fact.
I told her that whatever it was I ate from inside the belly wouldn’t be any worse than what I ate from the bottom of the Ocean in Haiti! We had a great conversation with she and her husband and they laughed a few extra times about me eating something from the belly – I think, just to make me feel better about being an idiot.
It’s nice to meet helpful people, isn’t it?!
Tomorrow afternoon I will be jumping on one of these bad-boys (a Fairchild 328JET) which happens to be a 32-passenger, leather-seat reclining, Midwest flight from Indy to Milwaukee.
I am excited to get back into the loving arms of my wife and daughter tomorrow! It has been good to be in Indianapolis working with some denominational leaders and talking about some things that will have a lasting and positive-impact on some of the structure of the Wesleyan denomination.
It’s also been good to hang with some of my buds for the last couple of hours, too!
Nothing, however, will be as satisfying as arriving back in Milwaukee and being picked up by Jess & Ella!
See you soon, Family!
After our theater-visit and stuffing our faces with numerous goodies from the Chinese buffet, we came home and found “Prestige” on-demand.
I did enjoy the film – it’s one that I was hoping to be able to see months ago and never had the opportunity. As an wanna-be amateur magician the previews for this film appealed to me on numerous levels. Watching the actual film was a bit disappointing, however.
Knowing that it was a film and involved very little “real” illusions (if any), I was left wanting much, much more. The plot was great, however, and did keep my brain making up the “answer” to its question.
The ending WAS a bit disappointing for me, but I guess that’s to be expected with what I like to think of as an “illusionist background”!
