Me and my appendix called it quits today – for good.
All I can say is “Wow! God did it again.” Watch the video above to hear the entire story. But basically the story is this – I thought I had a really bad stomach ache yesterday afternoon, that bad “stomach ache” got REALLY bad around 3:30 this morning (in fact it was the worst pain I had ever felt – and it wouldn’t stop.) My awesome wife took me to Presbyterian Hospital, and they quickly ran some tests after making me drink some extremely “uncool” liquid. (click here for a video I made while drinking it.) After they ran the tests they found out that my bad “stomach ache” was really an appendicitis and decided that I needed to have an emergency surgery – an appendectomy.
By 9:30 am I was out of surgery (click here to view a video I shout when I came out of surgery – Warning, I’m a little loopy!) – and the extreme pain that I had before was gone! (instead replaced by three nice scars around my lower stomach.) The Doctor said that my appendix was in REALLY bad shape, was super infected, and that gangrene had sat in, (gross) in other words – it “REALLY” needed to come out! Believe it or not, by 4:30 pm THEY LET ME COME HOME!
The nurses said they couldn’t believe the doctor allowed me to go home, since a surgery of this nature requires at the very minimum an overnight stay. They simply could not believe I was walking to the restroom (although extremely sore), talking (i had a breathing tube in for a while), using my phone, making jokes, and even eating a nice chicken dish for lunch! I told them I had lots of people praying for me, and our great God works like that sometimes (granted, He is always great, and wise – but it sure is awesome when your prayer requests, and His will line up). So thank you to everyone who prayed, called, texted, twitted, left a voicemail, etc -it meant more then you know. In fact I was overwhelmed that even some students that I minister to sent me text messages – that was super cool! One more super cool “God thing” that happened today – as many of you know; summers are very busy for me, and normally something is going on every day of the week – but this Sunday and Monday were very “low key” days, and I’ll only be missing a few appointments. So as crazy as it sounds – this couldn’t have happened at a better time! Big thanks to Presbyterian Hospital, and Dr. Shires (who just happend to be the cheif surgeon who was on call today – another “God thing”) – you guys rocked it today. Your entire staff was exceptional! Thanks for making such a scary, and stressful, experience a great one! Thanks to my iPhone 3GS which allowed me to capture such great footage! Thanks to my awesome wife who is always so loving, and most of all thanks to our super, awesome God. He really did do a miracle today – I can’t believe I’m home right now typing this. (24 hours ago I was on the floor in tears because of the extreme pain I was having.)
{p.s. – I had a breathing tube in my throat, and as you can see, the Lord has really allowed my throat to heal up very quickly!}
{p.p.s. – And to my mean appendix, – I’m mad you kept me from seeing the awesome firework show, and enjoying my Joe T. Garcia’s – I’m glad we’ve parted ways. You weren’t much fun to have around, and you won’t be missed!}
Glad you're doing okay! Doesn't sound like a fun past 24 hours. God is good, and I'm glad to see that you're doing great.
And the video where it shows you "out of your mind" is ridiculously funny. seriously. youtube quality. and I mean that in a good way.
Take care bro and glad to see you're doing great!
Hey thanks man! It was NO fun at all. But man like you said, God is indeed good. I can't believe they let me go home same day, and I can't believe I feel as "good" as I feel today. I'm super, crazy sore, but I can move around (slowly) but fine! Thanks for your prayers man!
So glad your doing well. Tempting to take you up on your offer for a free sponge pop, but I think I'll pass
Just let me know – I have an entire bag!
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord indeed! I'm simply amazed at how He worked all of this out. It went so smooth, and simple. Thanks for your prayers!
Praise the Lord indeed! I'm simply amazed at how He worked all of this out. It went so smooth
OMG. You are hilarious. Sorry to hear all this happened man. Wow. Love Garcia's too.
ha,ha. thanks man! We got get back to that Joe T Garcia's again some day!
Yah yesterday was zero fun – but man God did HIs thing. It couldn't have gone more smooth!
Dude the twitter reference of the other hospital is awesome too. You should have titled this. Twitter saved my life.
I know – wasn't that awesome that some out in twitter land knew about that other hospital?
bro – I had not seen this video! Thanks for the shout out. Total providence, man. I had stayed up late reading, something I NEVER do on Saturday nights. I checked Twitter before I went to bed and saw your tweet. PTL for watching over you, bro! So thankful the Lord allowed that opportunity and even more thankful for His care for you during the ordeal.
-Stan
Isn't it awesome when you see God work? Especially when He uses something so random, like twitter?
Thanks for being up last week, and for the suggestion! It went perfect!