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Although we have a nice room here at the New Tribes Mission guest house in town, a nice reasonable cost hotel room when in the city, and even a nice big, bright room when in the hospital in the city, we are really looking forward to FINALLY getting back to our home in our tribal […]

It has now been nearly two weeks since Gene had a pacemaker implanted. The pain from surgery is gone now. He still has to be careful for at least a couple of weeks yet to not raise the arm on that side above shoulder level. His heart rate has been running much faster than the […]

Greetings. Gene’s pacemaker was “interrogated” this morning by the representative of the pacemaker distributor. It is working properly in all respects. Dr Rocha, the cardiologist who implanted it, took off the bandaging this afternoon and no infection in sight. Gene has his arm in a sling so it’s a bit awkward. He’s feeling good and […]

Just a quick update. It was decided not to admit Gene to the hospital today. He will be admitted tomorrow morning with pacemaker implantation to take place 8am Thursday morning (8pm Wednesday US east coast time). Thanks for your prayers. Another item to pray for is that he not have a malaria relapse the day […]

Just received a phone call from the cardiologist, Dr Rocha, who will implant Gene’s pacemaker. Because of Gene’s stroke, Dr Rocha wants to implant the pacemaker as soon as possible. So, tomorrow morning (Monday night US east coast time) Gene will be admitted to the hospital to be checked out for things such as infection […]

In our last update we stated that Gene has had two transient ischemic attacks (TIA) and has been quite weak and with limbs feeling a little heavy and not quite normally responsive. It goes a bit beyond that. After about one to two hours of sitting and standing he becomes dizzy, his legs and arms […]

Gene had his MRI on Tuesday morning Philippine time. As Gene expected, it showed his head to be absolutely empty. Well, not really, because as amazing as it may seem there is a brain in there. The neurologist says that the issues that the MRI show are not serious and are to be expected at […]

Gene’s angiogram went well yesterday. We had been given the figure of the equivalent of $1,380 US for a package deal for the angiogram including lab work and overnight stay at the hospital. We were surprised and pleased when we received the final bill today and it came to only the equivalent of $883 US. […]

We were thankful and amazed to learn recently that there are eleven Manubu’ men from various Manubu’ churches who are training to become Bible teachers. Dani, a Manubu’ Bible teacher in the lowlands, is training five of them. Two of them are son’s of his. One of his sons training is only ten years old […]

Gene has seen a third cardiologist that another New Tribes missionary has been using. His analysis is similar to Dra Yap’s and in line with the research that Gene has done on medical sites on the internet. This doctor’s explanations were very clear. Because we live in a remote area and do not have ready […]