February 13th Update

Good morning!! I have a few things to share with you.

• I went to the Neuro-specialist yesterday for my appt. and gave her all of the updates that has been done/said since she referred me in Dec. I gave her all that had been done with the Pain Clinic and what was to come next. I also gave her the update that the spine surgeon said and showed her the brochures that he had given to me regarding the type of surgeries he would be considering. She was not pleased with one of them saying that specific type of surgery is usually done to people who are 70-90 years old and she felt I needed another opinion. So, she is sending me to a neuro-surgeon for another opinion. This doctor works out of MI Brain & Spine Institute and is a partner in the Michigan Pain Clinic...yes, there is where I go for all of these tests. Interesting that he works with the doctor I have been seeing for all of these tests. So, I am going to be scheduling an appointment with Dr. Brodkey after their offices open up this morning. Please pray for me that I have discernment on all of these "opinions". My Dr. pointed out to me that finding the RIGHT surgeon is very important because I will only want to go through this one time and once a surgeon has done a procedure, another surgeon will NOT touch it. (Clean it up) so to speak. So, she said if we needed to get 5 opinions, we will. She wants me to have it done right and so do I. I really like her!!

• Another great thing that has happened is...Mary Lu King, one of our prayer partners, came over Friday for coffee and we visited for a couple of hours. During the visit, she mentioned the gentleman that her husband, Mack, had talked about during one of our prayer meetings that he used to work with that was a pilot and mechanic that possibly had some tools that he could "give" to Scott. She said that Mack didn't feel comfortable to call this guy since it had been so long since they had talked. I said I understood and we moved on in conversation. Later that night I received an email from Mary Lu stating that after she got home from my house, 2 hours later, that gentleman called her and asked if Mack and her would meet him and his wife for dinner on Sat. night.? She couldn't believe it! She asked us to pray for the dinner/meeting. She was so cute, she said she put all of our newsletters, MMS newsletters, tool shower invitation and tool list and anything else she had regarding us into her purse to show this guy. Well, she called me with an update and said, "Mark was very impressed by you giving your life to God in this way. He looked over all of the information for a very long time. He owns the Romeo airstrip and owns many private planes (he flies/maintains them), he is a corp. pilot and a lawyer. He is the corp. co. in-house attorney. He is a Christian and had two boys, 15, 12 (same as Shaughn and Matthew). He said that he definitely had tools for Scott and would be giving him a call. Mary Lu was so excited. She added that Mark did not know about Mack's heart attack and surgery last fall and that was not why he had called them, he just had Mack on his mind for a while and felt he was suppose to call him and have them meet again and meet their wives. Way too cool. Mary Lu wants us to make sure we call her as soon as Mark calls Scott. :-) She also added that when she sent me the first email telling me of the phone call, that she had just painted her nails and couldn't wait for them to dry so she typed the email with the eraser of a pencil. TOO CUTE!!
• Scott is suppose to call one of the purposed churches back today between 3-4 p.m. to speak to the Missions Director. Please pray that God's will is done and that if we are suppose to speak with them while we are there, that it will work out and if not, that God closes the door. :-) Hard to believe that we leave 1 week from tomorrow. (Pray for me as I am nervous about "sitting" for long periods of time in the van.)
  

Well, that is the update as of now...more to come. :-)
Bless you all,
Lela