August 7, 2014
I think that I had better put something in this blog
before I procrastinate some more.
Our two retired bishops, Bucher and Lobinger, returned
from their home leave in Germany on the 29th of July and brought new
life to our house. Table talk has been scarce while they were away but has come
back with them here now.
I had another appointment
with the dentist and the optometrist. I am sure that God could haeeve done a
better job on our teeth.
I got a bug in
my system and worked like crazy on Saturday, Aug. 1, cutting branches from a
huge tree that came down to the ground and raked up about two tons of leaves.
Slept like a baby that night.
I celebrated
Mass at the hospital on the 3rd and gave our some handouts for their
reflection. (It is only the sisters who are not on duty who can come, about 10
of them).
Then I visited
a lady friend who damaged her foot and has to have it in a big shoe to
encourage her a bit. She hates having to just sit there. And another family
after that so the day was pretty full.
On Monday I saw
the Ophthalmologist who examined my eyes and he said that the drops are working
well as the pressure in bothes was in the normal range, but, because of a
cataract forming in the right eye, I don’t drive at night because when the
lights from the oncoming cars hit that fogged up lens, it just diffuses the
light and I go temporarily blind. We agreed to get that cataract out once I get
back from the wedding in Milwaukee in September.
But,
yesterday was a full, full and happy
day. I got my eye drops, bought some broccoli for my special salad, visited a
fashion designer in downtown Durban , a friend, and we
plan to help Sinovuyo, my kid from Landsend who is a self-taught tailor,
by her giving him some training, but that
will be in October, I think. She will be off to a fashion show in London in
early September.
Then I went off
to Parklands Hospital to visit a young doctor who lost one of her twins when he
came out unexpectedly, but the other stayed inside with the placenta so there is
hope that, if she can just stay cool and calm, the other can survive and bring
her and her husband joy. Her doctor admits that he has never seen this before
and she is like a guinea pig as he tries to figure out what to do day by day.
It is a learning curve for both of them. Then off to another hospital, Shifa, where a friend
was supposed to have am amputation of his left foot. He stepped on a nail back in Mach and it
eventually got septic and led to this. However, when I went into his room, he
told me that when they wheeled him in for his prepping they found that his leg
and foot and toes were all warm so there must be circulation going on. So the
doctor said, no amputation. Let’s see how it goes. The removed a vein from one
place and put it in his leg and it seems that it is getting a blood supply to
the foot. Prayer. It was a happy day. The day before I went to another hospital
(R.K.Knan) at the request of a friend. A lady had had a stroke and was partly
comatose. I had just come back from the doctor who had put drops in my eyes to
dilate the pupils and I just couldn’t read the Zulu words in the ritual I was
using so I just put it away and prayed
my own prayers. I hope it was acceptable to the Lord.
That is the 4th
time now that I have been asked to visit patients in the hospital because most
priests are just too busy to be able to take the time unless it is a real
emergency. And it helps to keep me out of mischief.
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