The Copeland Ramblings/

Kidney Stone Update

After a lot of running around, going to the hospital, going to the doctor, attempting to arrange insurance, getting x-rays and a lot of time in the car… Norm has finally had the kidney stone removal procedure. PRAISE THE LORD. We really were not sure if it would be possible in two weeks time. But after only one week, its all taken care of. All that is left is one follow up with the urologist.

Today was the actual procedure. We drove about 45 minutes away to an out patient clinic. We checked in, filled out all the papers. Then after a little while a nurse came and took Norm to be prepped for the “surgery.” He had to be put out by general anesthesia. I was lucky enough to then have a few hours to sit and relax. I read, looked through magazines (in ENGLISH!!) and played games on our ipad. Usually after the procedure patients take 30 minutes in recovery to “wake up.” But they tried waking him up and he was tooooo sleepy. So they let him rest longer. After about one and a half hours he was finally ready to go home. We loaded up in our car, he was so very dopey and sleepy. We drove home. He slept most of the way. Once we were home he went straight to bed for about 2 hours. Ever since then he has been doing really well. Some mild pain but doing really well. Feel so wonderful having that taken care of.

Thank you for all of your prayers! Please continue to pray that he would recover well and not have any further problems. God is so good! He has taught us so many things through all of this. It has been hard physically and in so many other ways. But we are so thankful for a God who loves us so much to take us through things to teach us and mature us even more. He gives us many opportunities to put our faith to work. Thank you God!

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