Christmas at Duke

We've already spent Halloween at Duke this year. We came really close to spending Thanksgiving at Duke. Now we are managing to get the Duke Hospital experience for Christmas. Not exactly what we had planned, but we are together and that's all that is truly important to me.

Joe had been having severe back pain over the last few days and it had become obvious that the fluid was once again building up in his abdomen.  So I called the oncologist covering for Dr. Zafar today and he urged us to come on to the emergency department.  He called ahead so they were already expecting us.  We were checked in quickly, an ultrasound was done, fluid was drawn and he was admitted to the 9th floor all within 4 hours.  That's good service!  When we got up to the room, not only do we have one of our favorite nurses (Brittany), but our absolute favorite 9th floor doctor is here, Dr. Yvonne Mowry.....YAY!!

Thank you to the near capacity crowd that attended Joe's piano concert last night at PGUMC.  With it so close to Christmas, we were pleasantly surprised with the turnout.  I hope it helped get everyone in the Christmas spirit.

Hopefully this will be a short stay but neither of us will let it dampen our Christmas.  It's just a delay in getting to the presents and food.

Worship fully, Spend less, Give more, Love all