The great blessing this week was that we were both able to receive our second covid dose on Friday. Tom had an appointment and I went in with him to help him walk due the pain he is experiencing. We asked two people on the way in if I could receive my shot too and we were told they only had enough for that day. I had an appointment for the next day and we resigned ourselves to that option. As the fellow prepared to administer the shot to Tom, he asked if we were both receiving it. I explained our situation and the girl sitting next to him who was taking care of the paper work kindly said, “Let me see if I can change that.” She left her table and went to talk to two supervisors and returned with a “go” for me. We count every blessing these days and we were grateful for that particular one.
Tom’s pain continues and the strong painkillers provide little relief. We waited until Monday to phone Dr. Collingridge with a report on things and were given a phone appointment for Thursday. Tom called Langley Hospital to make sure the requisition for a CT scan had arrived and found it had not. It was to be sent a week ago and Dr. Collingridge’s office thought it had possibly been sent to Abbotsford by accident so they resent it and told Tom it would be a long wait before he received a call for an appointment. All this took place on Monday (yesterday) and by evening Tom told Cindy to go ahead and have Wendy Jack use her position in medical administration to help hasten the process. Wendy had been offering to help us hurry needed tests but we had never wanted to bother her or step out of line. Cindy had been pleading with us to accept the help. First thing this morning Tom received a call from Langley Hospital with a CT appointment for Friday morning. Another perfect blessing as we have appointments tomorrow and Thursday. We are so grateful for Wendy’s kindness and the kindness and prayers of so many. We do count our blessings.
In person church resumed this week according to provincial guidelines and zoom meetings continued for those unable to attend in person. This change of protocol meant we needed to select hymns again and notify our organists about what would be happening. At the moment, as Dan Davies is the organist and for the present time we will only be having one sacrament meeting a week, the other organists received the hymn selections so they are prepared but left on standby. They have all been so accommodating during these ever changing days. We were also asked to teach a young man named Geoff Cleeves the Temple “prep” lessons and we set that up for a zoom meeting on Sunday but he never turned up and didn’t respond to phone and text messages. We are hoping his plans and desires have not changed.
Max has his endowment scheduled for this Saturday and Jacqui will be going for her endowments on the same day in the Sydney, Australia Temple. That is very exciting. Sarah receives her endowments the next week and she and Ross will be sealed by Tom on the 19th. Zachary says he is hoping to go thru the Temple some time this summer. We are so excited for these boys and girls. Tom wants to be in the Temple so badly and to be serving. That is our wish and our prayer.
Comedy of the week. It is Brendon’s birthday today so last night while I was making dinner I suggested Tom get an e-card ready and send it in advance to Brendon. He did so. We then got a call from Cindy saying we had just sent a card to Sam. As the evening went on we heard from Jon Elton and Barb Rhodes saying they had received cards too and it wasn’t their birthdays. We realized that it had accidentally gone to everyone on our e-card list so we then sent out an apology card to everyone. Oh dear! Tom heard from his brother Wayne today also saying he had received the card. We laughed and laughed when we saw everyone the birthday card would had gone out to.😂
We are managing to get our house and yard work done on our own but I was upset with Tom yesterday when he started doing too much out in the yard. Sciatica requires that you not sit too much and that you move around but you should also not be doing too much. I fear overdoing has got us to this point and we had been so grateful to be off painkillers. It is hard for him to walk now and when he walks outside he uses his walking sticks. He holds onto the lawnmower in the yard and a buggy when getting groceries. We just try to keep moving and we are constantly praying - every step of the way.
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