Mom, Church, and the Phantom of the Opera.

Mom:

Thanks for all the prayers and phone calls I’ve gotten the past week.  My mother was released from the hospital on Friday night.  She has to give herself injections for the next week and will be on blood thinner pills for years… possibly the rest of her life…  The blood thinners are to prevent future clots.  Her current situation hasn’t improved much though.  The clots are all still there and the doctors sent her home for the holidays and are pretty sure the clots won’t move since they are getting so old now.  They think they’ve attached themselves to the walls of her veins and will remain there until they eventually dissolve.

I can’t say I’m super excited about that judgement on their part, but they’re the doctors!  She’s still at risk of one breaking loose and travelling to her lungs or heart… so that’s not good.  But they think she’ll be ok if she takes it easy.  She’s off of work for a month and is supposed to relax.  I guess we’ll see what happens.  I’m kind of annoyed that there is a surgery they COULD have done to put a filter in her vein so tht IF they moved, they’d be trapped and couldn’t cause any damage.  The procedure is a quick 15 minute outpatient surgery… but they decided to not do it.  If it were up to us, it would have been done.  Let’s hope they’re right about it not moving… or else I’ll be REALLY mad at the doctors if something bad happens that they could have prevented.

Church:

We had our 6 Christmas Eve services last night… had 10,403 people there throughout the day… along with a news crew.   All went well with no MAJOR blowups of equipment.  We had 4 overflow seating areas in various places…. chapel, classrooms, atrium… all with video projections of the service and audio being piped in live.  Though we had those all in use at one point or another, it couldn’t compare to being in the auditorium.  The band and lights… the video and sound… all rocked.  Major props to those who were involved in planning, practicing, and giving up of their time to volunteer to make that all a success.  Hundreds of folks prayed to recieve Christ as their personal Lord and Savior that day.  One of whom is the mother of the guy playing drums that night.   It’s so awesome to see that happen and know that God used you to play a role in the experience that led them to Him.

Phantom of the Opera:

We’re going to the in-laws’ today through this week… and are seeing Phantom of the Opera on Wednesday night.  That should be cool… I’ve only seen it once and I was a little kid, so I remember very little about it.  Let’s hope I don’t get a chandelier dropped on my head.