Phil, this is great news! I prayed for the surgeons, doctors and 
nurses taking care of John, and I know how painful his breathing will 
be for a while. I'm praying for his breathing. I'm also praying for 
poor Vicki as she goes through this with him.


IN HIS LOVE AND GRACE,
Reeva Parry.


On Tuesday 4/10/2007 05:33 PM, Phil Scovell said:

>John's surgeon was called in during the middle of the night for the surgery.
>He told Vicki, the way I understand it, he had never done this type of
>surgery before and that it was a text book type of surgery.  That is,
>something you study in a medical text book but never have to perform as a
>surgeon.  thank God for doctors and the gift God has given them even if many
>of them don't know where it came from in the first place.
>
>We need to pray for John's breathing.  They will be having him on breathing
>exercises where he breathes into a tube but his breathing, based upon his
>open heart surgery, is going to be painful, to say the least.  If he doesn't
>breathe and work at it, he risks the chance of getting pneumonia and he
>doesn't need that right now for sure.  So pray about his breathing.
>
>When they do this type of surgery, they literally use stiff wires to close
>the chest back up.  The skin is then sown over the wires.  No, they stay in
>the body from then on.  No, me neither.  I cannot even imagine what it is
>like.  John was a cop for 9 years in Florida so he isn't chicken like me but
>nobody does it alone, not even you.  The only one who ever has is Jesus.
>Stop and think about that one for a few days and see how it changes your
>thinking.  Jesus will be there at the end of your meditation on that
>concept.  Write and tell me what you discover about Him when you get to the
>end of that train of thought.
>
>Phil.