Saturday, July 11, 2009
Our Week
This week has been spent mostly in nursing invalids with the flu, but it did have one major highlight for John and I. We went to a concert on Thursday night (an early birthday present for me) and stayed the night in town.
The Ten Tenors were excellent but my favourite part of the trip was the uninterrupted time spent with John. Even after twenty-three years together we do not get bored of each other's company.
The Ten Tenors were excellent but my favourite part of the trip was the uninterrupted time spent with John. Even after twenty-three years together we do not get bored of each other's company.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
R & R
Life around here is busy, crazy, and sometimes chaotic. The good thing though is that it is never dull.
After Karli's operation last Friday the nurse gave me a folder full of paperwork with all the instructions for her care over the weekend. She couldn't drive, operate heavy machinery, sign any important papers, make life changing decisions...but she could vomit and bleed too much; a little bit is okay, too much is not. Would I know the difference? I wasn't so sure. We had to get through the drive home first.
I didn't bring the pain relief with me so we had to get a drive-thru milkshake from Maccas so that she had something in her stomach by the time we got home. I drove through to the window and heard behind me off in the distance somewhere a voice asking to take my order. When I looked back I could see a white van giving his order to the voice. I had driven straight past the machine. Fortunately the lady in the window who takes the cash also takes the orders.
Back to the pain relief...I didn't realise a person shouldn't take panadeine forte on an empty stomach. Apparently it causes vomiting, which I was expecting all the way home. Empty stomach, swallowing blood, bumpy ride, equals puke. The only thing we had in the car to catch it was an over sized, hospitalish, heavy-duty brown paper bag with Karli's belongings in it. She could throw up as much as she wanted in that thing and it would never fill.
At home we now had two patients with four different medications between them and a round-the-clock schedule for taking them. My nursing skills were tested greatly and I now know I should not give up my day job to make it my profession.
After a couple of days of this I was starting to feel on edge. It is amazing how much life can change when you look at it through sleep deprived eyes. Everything looked grim. John was great though, he did the only sensible thing possible with a half-crazed wife beside him, he decided to close his mouth and nod and smile a lot.
By this time Daniel's swollen, angry looking ear was still a mystery to the doctors and the antibiotics weren't working. So they took a couple of swabs and we waited over the weekend. It started to look better by Monday and is now almost completely healed.
We are all looking forward to the holidays next week and a bit of R&R. The Rioting I can handle, it's the Rampaging that gets to me.
Happy holidays everyone.
After Karli's operation last Friday the nurse gave me a folder full of paperwork with all the instructions for her care over the weekend. She couldn't drive, operate heavy machinery, sign any important papers, make life changing decisions...but she could vomit and bleed too much; a little bit is okay, too much is not. Would I know the difference? I wasn't so sure. We had to get through the drive home first.
I didn't bring the pain relief with me so we had to get a drive-thru milkshake from Maccas so that she had something in her stomach by the time we got home. I drove through to the window and heard behind me off in the distance somewhere a voice asking to take my order. When I looked back I could see a white van giving his order to the voice. I had driven straight past the machine. Fortunately the lady in the window who takes the cash also takes the orders.
Back to the pain relief...I didn't realise a person shouldn't take panadeine forte on an empty stomach. Apparently it causes vomiting, which I was expecting all the way home. Empty stomach, swallowing blood, bumpy ride, equals puke. The only thing we had in the car to catch it was an over sized, hospitalish, heavy-duty brown paper bag with Karli's belongings in it. She could throw up as much as she wanted in that thing and it would never fill.
At home we now had two patients with four different medications between them and a round-the-clock schedule for taking them. My nursing skills were tested greatly and I now know I should not give up my day job to make it my profession.
After a couple of days of this I was starting to feel on edge. It is amazing how much life can change when you look at it through sleep deprived eyes. Everything looked grim. John was great though, he did the only sensible thing possible with a half-crazed wife beside him, he decided to close his mouth and nod and smile a lot.
By this time Daniel's swollen, angry looking ear was still a mystery to the doctors and the antibiotics weren't working. So they took a couple of swabs and we waited over the weekend. It started to look better by Monday and is now almost completely healed.
We are all looking forward to the holidays next week and a bit of R&R. The Rioting I can handle, it's the Rampaging that gets to me.
Happy holidays everyone.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Our Life and Our Words Should Expose Sin
I am sure you have all experienced a change in behaviour from the non-Christians around you as soon as they realise you are a believer. The swearing stops, and the rude jokes are no longer funny. But what about the person who knows you follow Christ and they go out of their way to tell off jokes or wear t-shirts with rude pictures and messages on them? How should we respond to that?
Well, this morning I came across an answer from John MacArthur's Truth for Today.
We also are commissioned by God to verbally expose the evil of the world. We must diagnose it, confront it, and then offer the solution. Sin is a cancer that must be removed. You aren't helping anyone by ignoring it. People need to be convicted about their sin before they will ever see their need for a Savior.
The reference he uses comes from Ephesians 5:11
"Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them."
Well, this morning I came across an answer from John MacArthur's Truth for Today.
We also are commissioned by God to verbally expose the evil of the world. We must diagnose it, confront it, and then offer the solution. Sin is a cancer that must be removed. You aren't helping anyone by ignoring it. People need to be convicted about their sin before they will ever see their need for a Savior.
The reference he uses comes from Ephesians 5:11
"Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them."
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
God's Graciousness
A big thank you from Michael for all the birthday wishes you sent him. He had a great day. Rachael has blogged already, so I won't go over it again. If you would like to see some of the photos from yesterday, go here.
This lovely site - Twists and Twirls - has some gorgeous hair accessories. I love them, especially the curly ones.
And last but not least, here is another fine sermon from John Piper, You Will Never Be Thirsty Again.
"This story in John 4 about Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well reveals woeful truth about ourselves and wonderful truth about Jesus. And the wonderful truth that it reveals about Jesus gives hope to us in our woeful condition.
So don’t short-circuit the wonderful work of Jesus for you and in you by failing to see clearly how woeful your condition is without him. The reason the Bible tells us woeful news about ourselves is to make the greatness of grace and the greatness of salvation feel as wonderful as it really is. And that’s what this story is mainly about. Not us but him!"
This lovely site - Twists and Twirls - has some gorgeous hair accessories. I love them, especially the curly ones.
And last but not least, here is another fine sermon from John Piper, You Will Never Be Thirsty Again.
"This story in John 4 about Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well reveals woeful truth about ourselves and wonderful truth about Jesus. And the wonderful truth that it reveals about Jesus gives hope to us in our woeful condition.
So don’t short-circuit the wonderful work of Jesus for you and in you by failing to see clearly how woeful your condition is without him. The reason the Bible tells us woeful news about ourselves is to make the greatness of grace and the greatness of salvation feel as wonderful as it really is. And that’s what this story is mainly about. Not us but him!"
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