Okay, so a lot has happened in the past few days that I haven't had the time to post about... so here it is now in most of it's glory.
Saturday and Sunday
This weekend at church, the two big-wigs of our production team were on vacation. I was dropped in one of the slots for the weekend (Technical Director) as well as performing my usual volunteer duties of setting up and running the lights for the services. Needless to say, I was pretty nervous about the whole thing. I didn't sleep very well Friday night. The setup went pretty smoothly, in fact we were done about an hour early, so the video guys switched on the UK basketball game to the 3 huge widescreen video screens we have in the main room. Saturday night's service went really smoothly, too. No hiccups or incidents to speak of.
Sunday morning went just as well as Saturday night, and the transition to Reverb went off without a hitch. Patrick spoke at Reverb this weekend in place of Fred Turner (who was on vacation). I was very impressed. I had seen him do a monologue, or heard his writing before, but never deliver the teaching message. He did a great job. Sunday afternoon I went home and took a nap for about 4 hours. I don't usually take naps, so this is a testament to the stress level I was feeling, plus the lack of sleep.
Saturday night
I went with Stephanie and Jennifer to see Failure to Launch with Matthew Maconehey (sp?) and Sarah Jessica Parker. It was really funny, I'd say a good date movie or a good rental. I'd give it the rating of a "possible buy".
Monday and Tuesday
I spent most of Monday at St. Joseph's hospital keeping Stephanie's mom company during Steph's surgery. The surgery only took an hour, and the doctor said that things really couldn't have gone any better. They removed three tumors with no problems. The tumors were on the outside of her uterus, and the doctor said there should be no problem with her carrying or giving birth naturally. Stephanie had so many people there that cared for her. Tuesday, I went back to the hospital to visit Steph while she was a bit more lucid. The previous day, she was basically drunk off the medicine, proving incoming phone calls to be quite humorous from an onlooker's viewpoint. She was doing really well on Tuesday, and many people came to visit her or called while she was there, proving how much and how many people care for her.
Today, Wednesday - Stephanie is on her way home from the hospital!
3 comments:
Thanks for the kind words, Scott.
Yeah, don't get used to them. ;)
Scott, you are such a good friend to Steph. I know she will have a hard time moving to London if you can't move there, too!!
I think some of the funniest things I've ever seen or heard have been at a hospital watching someone recover from surgery. I imagine you got many laughs from watching Steph that first day. Geron tried to call his church secretary the first morning after his surgery, while he was still on the morphine pump. If I'd been her on the other end, I would've thought I was receiving an obscene phone call. She told us later that she'd had no clue who was trying to talk to her at first and was a little scared.
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