Our visit to the city for Carol to get checked out for a pain she has been having turned out to be an amazing experience of amazing grace.\u00a0 This past Monday we flew by our mission helicopter to the airport that serves the city where our doctors are, a 45 min flight.\u00a0 Then a one hour and ten minute taxi ride to the city because of heavy traffic as the highway gets within a couple of miles of the city.
\nSo, it was about 10:30 before Carol got to the hospital and went to sign in at a doctor’s clinic.\u00a0 We have never been to her before, but she had been highly recommended to us.\u00a0 Carol found that she would be number forty one on the waiting list and the doctor was not due to arrive until 1:30!\u00a0 Carol didn’t sign in. The receptionist told her that there would be a sign-up sheet on the door in the morning and if she was there to sign up at 6:00 a.m. she would be sure of seeing the doctor that day.
\nOh how we wished that Dr M were still around.\u00a0 Dr M had been our internist and surgeon (world class) and friend for many years. After retiring a couple of years ago, he and his wife went to live in the States where their families are.\u00a0 Carol wandered around the hospital looking for the surgeon that had been recommended to us by Dr M’s wifereceptionistnurse when Dr M retired.\u00a0 Carol figured that maybe the surgeon would not have such a long waiting list as the other doctor and she could get in to see her.\u00a0\u00a0 As she wandered looking for the surgeon’s clinic she went by Dr M’s former clinic rooms.\u00a0 There was a sign on the door that said, “Dr M is back”!\u00a0 He would have clinic the next day from 10 to 1.
\nWhat are the chances of Dr M after retiring and living in the States being back just when Carol needed him?\u00a0 Amazing Grace!\u00a0 Dr M checked her out, found a spot where there is pain when pressure is applied, and gave her lab requests for mammogram, ultrasound, and bone scan.
\nMore grace followed.\u00a0 We went to the radiology department.\u00a0 The waiting area was nearly full.\u00a0 Carol signed in and was immediately taken for mammogram and ultrasound.\u00a0 Apparently, all the the other people we waiting for xrays. She got the results within half an hour.\u00a0 Both negative. Amazing Grace.
\nWe then went to the nuclear department to arrange for the bone scan.\u00a0 She was given an appointment for Thursday which we thought meant that week – the next day.\u00a0 Gene went back there later to ask a question about something and learned that the appointment was for Thursday next week.
\nNext week was not a good option for us as we had already had trouble finding a hotel room because of a Rotary Club convention. So Gene asked if it could be the next day instead of next week. The girl said she would check it out.\u00a0 Came back and said for Carol to be there at 9 a.m. the next morning.\u00a0 The radioactive medicine to be injected had been ordered from Manila, would arrive at the airport next morning, and should be at the clinic sometime between 9 and 11 o’clock.\u00a0 Amazing Grace again!
\nWe were told that if the doctor who reads the results happened to be available she might get the results the same day.\u00a0 Or it might be a few days.
\nThe next morning the medicine arrived at the hospital about 9 a.m., was injected, and after a three hour wait for it to infiltrate the bones she had the full body scan which took about 1 1\/2 hours.\u00a0 She got the results within a few minutes!\u00a0 Amazing Grace again.\u00a0 Results were negative – no problem.\u00a0 Amazing Grace again.
\nWhat was not negative about the bone scan was that she was radioactive for the next 24 hours so Gene couldn’t get closer to her than one meter.\u00a0 24 hours without hugs!\u00a0 For us, that is suffering!
\nDr M said no need to do anything more.\u00a0 We had read online that there can be many causes of breast pain and sometimes no reason for it can be found.\u00a0 We are now at least confident that it is not cancer.
\nEvery time we needed a taxi, even at 5:15 am when we went to the hospital for annual lab work, we got a taxi immediately.\u00a0 Amazing Grace.
\nCarol had had a toothache off and on for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 It became abscessed and extremely painful while we were in the city. So after the bone scan, the next morning we went to see if our dentist could fit her in.\u00a0 We arrived at his clinic early so as to be there when he arrived.\u00a0 We sat in the waiting room with only one other person – an elderly Chinese man named William.\u00a0 He is of a religion which teaches eternal salvation through good works.\u00a0 We were able to share the true gospel with him for about 25 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 Gene has a Bible on his smartphone and read Ephesians 2:8,9 to him and we discussed it. Little by little he seemed to be getting the idea that eternal salvation is based on the cross and not works, but still skeptical.\u00a0 We suggested that he ask God to show him the truth.\u00a0 Another Amazing Grace situation.\u00a0 Please *PRAY* for William’s salvation.
\nOh, Carol was able to have the first stage of a root canal done that afternoon.\u00a0 She is taking antibiotics and the pain is now nearly gone.\u00a0 Amazing Grace.<\/p>\n
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