When I got home from walking the boys to school Jay was walking down the front walk. He said mom was trying to reach me and that Dave ended up calling him trying to reach me as well. Jay informed me that pops was having some challenges. Lets just say that pops has had a rough day. Apparently he found himself in a tremendous amount of pain this morning. There was pain in his stomach as well as in his shoulders. It was not minor pain. It was severe. To the point that he was rocking back and forth on the bed, unable to bear it, unable to be rid of it. They took him into the hospital after receiving a Priesthood blessing. Apparently after receiving the blessing he fell asleep for a while but when he awoke he was still in pain. That is when they took him in.
That is all I knew all day as Dave and I worked and Mom and Amy were at the hospital. I had to run home to take care of a couple things in the afternoon and when I got back to The Little Brick House they were there. Mom filled me in on some details and let me know that pops was in emergency surgery, surgery that was exploratory in nature as the doctors could not find out what was wrong through cat scans. They had to go inside. Well, that was going to take a couple hours. That time passed and what they found was a hole in his intestine. They sewed it up and said he should be just fine. Pretty amazing.
Mom had blessing at the same time dad got one. She managed to make it through the day with a certain amount of peace and comfort. I think about that situation and I am grateful for those priesthood brothers who answered the call to serve and to bless. It is a comforting thing for me. I went through the day with a certain amount of peace as well. After I visited with Jay I came in the house and I prayed, I pondered, I was accepting of whatever would take place and I felt that everything would be fine. Very grateful tonight that it was.
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