[Magdalen] Little prayer request

[Charles Wohlers]

Thanks for all your prayers. Dr's. visit went well. This MD specializes in 
stuff on the surface of the eye. So - I'm scheduled for day surgery on the 
18th to scrape this spot off and freeze the area around it. The stuff will 
be sent out for biopsy and hopefully it'll come back negative. Even it 
positive, he hopefully will have gotten it all (it's quite small). Doctor 
and surgery are at Dartmouth-Hitchcock which, unfortunately, is over 90 
minutes away. We may stay over the night after surgery as I'm supposed to 
see him again the following day.

Meanwhile, I just got a call from the freeze alarm at the house in Mass. 
saying no heat - it's 45F inside. I do have a friend who will go over and 
take care of it, assuming he can get through the foot of snow which is on 
the ground there. It's steam heat and the boiler has run out of water, so 
it's a very simple fix. And - we have a closing date for selling the house 
of Valentine's Day (also Ash Wednesday this year) and so need to get 
everything we want out of the house by then. Life is interesting!

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 1:48 PM
To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Little prayer request

No matter what the potential illness, the most terrifying words of a doctor
are "We'll see what the tests show in a week or so..."

Nothing you can do but wait. You know there's an answer, for good or for
ill, coming, but you just have to hold your life in abeyance until "next
week."

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:04 AM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> I’m praying, as well. Cancer scares, especially combined with eye scares,
> are terrifying.
>
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:25 AM Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thinking of you, Chad, and saying prayers for good news from the
> > opthamologist today.
> >
> > Ginga Wilder
> >
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> > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 3:55 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Prayers, of course. How vulnerable stuff like this makes us feel!
> > >
> > > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not
> preserved,
> > > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is a small prayer request for me.
> > > >
> > > > Last Fall, I went to see my regular optometrist (in MA) as I needed 
> > > > a
> > new
> > > > glasses prescription. He noticed, on the white of my left eye, a
> small
> > > red
> > > > spot with blood vessels leading to it. He was afraid it might be
> > > cancerous,
> > > > and so found a ophthalmologist specializing in such things at
> > > > Dartmouth-Hitchcock over in NH. I see him tomorrow, so prayers that
> all
> > > > will turn out well.
> > > >
> > > > A complication is that I have amblyopia, and my left eye is my good
> > one.
> > > I
> > > > can see, kind of, out of my right eye, but not well enough to do 
> > > > much
> > > more
> > > > than take care of myself, not bump into things, etc. This got me out
> of
> > > > getting drafted to go to Vietnam – prayers it won’t result in a
> > > significant
> > > > loss of eyesight.
> > > >
> > > > Chad Wohlers
> > > > Woodbury, VT USA
> > > > chadwohl at satucket.com
> > > >
> > >
> >
> --
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>