It is from a heart of sincere gratitude to each of you who made your voices heard in heaven on behalf of me when I had a total right hip replacement at Saint Mary's Hospital in Athens, GA.
My surgeon, Dr. Mahoney, had wanted to do a spinal block. However, they discovered that I have so much arthritis in my lower back that they have to give me an anesthesia to put me to sleep.
That anesthesia apparently caused my stomach to go to sleep. It is called "Ileus."
Ileus is a disruption or reduction of the blood supply to the abdomen.
Patients may be treated with supervised bed rest in a hospital and bowel rest. Bowel rest means that nothing is taken by mouth and patients are fed intravenously or through the use of a nasogastric tube. A nasogastric tube is a tube inserted through the nose, down the throat, and into the stomach. All I could have by mouth was chipped ice. In the process I completely lost all appetite for food. My appetite did come back on Tuesday of this week. PTL.
I was a very sick human being in need of prayer and a touch from God. He is my healer and He uses many delivery systems to bring about healing.
Melvine and Jeanette Herndon Phillips came to the Oaks Rehabilitation Center on Wednesday to get me and bring me home. This was was the day I longed to see. There is no place like home. I am on a standard walker and I am able to walk without pain and I am standing up much taller. Blenda and Doug Smith and Vonnie Parnell brought our supper Wednesday night and it was awesome. We have some of the best cooks in the known world at our church, Christian Life Worship Center. I love our church, the people and our new pastor Chaplain Terry Kesling and his wife, Pam. God has called them to come to be our pastor. They are here for the long haul. Terry is an excellent singer, worship and praise leader, a gifted teacher, and an anointed preacher. I would like to invite you to attend our church in Athens, GA.
I want to testify that I have absolutely no pain in my right hip. Dr. Mahoney used the interior surgery procedure for my total right hip replacement. As a result I can been way over while sitting in a chair and touch my toes, put on my socks and shoes, and tie them. I haven't been able to do that at all in recent years. I am so blessed and I give God all the glory, and I thank God for an orthopedic doctor like Dr. Mahoney.
My surgeon, Dr. Mahoney, had wanted to do a spinal block. However, they discovered that I have so much arthritis in my lower back that they have to give me an anesthesia to put me to sleep.
That anesthesia apparently caused my stomach to go to sleep. It is called "Ileus."
Ileus is a disruption or reduction of the blood supply to the abdomen.
Patients may be treated with supervised bed rest in a hospital and bowel rest. Bowel rest means that nothing is taken by mouth and patients are fed intravenously or through the use of a nasogastric tube. A nasogastric tube is a tube inserted through the nose, down the throat, and into the stomach. All I could have by mouth was chipped ice. In the process I completely lost all appetite for food. My appetite did come back on Tuesday of this week. PTL.
I was a very sick human being in need of prayer and a touch from God. He is my healer and He uses many delivery systems to bring about healing.
Melvine and Jeanette Herndon Phillips came to the Oaks Rehabilitation Center on Wednesday to get me and bring me home. This was was the day I longed to see. There is no place like home. I am on a standard walker and I am able to walk without pain and I am standing up much taller. Blenda and Doug Smith and Vonnie Parnell brought our supper Wednesday night and it was awesome. We have some of the best cooks in the known world at our church, Christian Life Worship Center. I love our church, the people and our new pastor Chaplain Terry Kesling and his wife, Pam. God has called them to come to be our pastor. They are here for the long haul. Terry is an excellent singer, worship and praise leader, a gifted teacher, and an anointed preacher. I would like to invite you to attend our church in Athens, GA.
I want to testify that I have absolutely no pain in my right hip. Dr. Mahoney used the interior surgery procedure for my total right hip replacement. As a result I can been way over while sitting in a chair and touch my toes, put on my socks and shoes, and tie them. I haven't been able to do that at all in recent years. I am so blessed and I give God all the glory, and I thank God for an orthopedic doctor like Dr. Mahoney.