[Magdalen] Keith update

[Marion Thompson]

Happy to hear better news at this point.. May the visit with the 
specialist be encouraging.  Prayers continue.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 2/28/2015 2:01 AM, sally.davies at gmail.com wrote:
> The week has just raced away...and I realise that I haven't posted an
> update to praying friends.
>
> Keith's latest rounds of tests came back negative, these were for markers
> of neuro-endocrine tumours. So that's good...kind of. Because we still have
> to, somehow, find out what these tumours are now - "a storm in a teacup" to
> use my sister's expression, or an incidental finding of an ominous
> situation, perhaps in time to do something about it. Either way, there will
> be gratitude.
>
> One real and immediate answer to prayer...my sister emailed a top
> specialist in Cape Town, Professor Krige who is Head of
> Gastro-Enterological Surgery at the medical school. Somewhat amazingly, he
> can see Keith on Tuesday morning. Keith is already in Cape Town as he has
> been working there since Thursday (a church consulting job followed by a
> highlight of his year, the outstanding Starlight Classics outdoor concert
> at Vergelegen Wine Farm, which is just down the road from our old house in
> Somerset West).
>
> So he's going to stay on until Tuesday. And there's more: my brother in law
> - not usually known for playing a supportive role in our side of the family
> - travelled to Cape Town yesterday to take my nephew for a look-see at the
> University of Stellenbosch, which is close to Somerset West. He has taken
> Keith's medical file and a disc with all the images done so far, for the
> Prof to study before he sees Keith.
>
> I am fine, my boys are back from camp sunburned but happy, and though one
> cannot help but feel unsettled there is peace in our house. Your prayers
> are gratefully felt, and from now on, having experienced the benefits of
> sustaining prayer, I'll be doing more to add my prayers when requests are
> made. Thank you, Lynn, for rehabilitating the Prayer Request summary, it is
> a valuable document of the prayer life of our List community as well as a
> handy reminder.
>
> "Of the increase of His government and peace, there shall be no end"...!
>
> Sally D
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