Well, this has been an eventful week. The big thing on our schedule was Gloria’s gall bladder surgery. what a day! First wewent to the hospital Monday the 14th and she had her pre-op all done, then they told us we had to be there Tuesday morn at 6am!!! 6am comes awfully early in the morning. I was kind of nervous as I always am when I have to be constrained by time. We went to bed early and I set my clock for 4;45 as I wanted to leave home at 5;15 as I didn’t know what kind of traffic we would encounter that early in the morning. Wellll, at my clock went off and I jumped up and looked at Gloria and she was still sleeping. I knew she had to get up earlier than I did as she thkes more time to get dressed than I do . So I screemed, “Gloria get up”. She raised up and looked around and said “why”, it is only 3;45! somehow I had set my clock an hour ahead. She mumbled a few words and turned over and went back to sleep. I couldn’t because I was wide awake by now. So I went and turned on the coffee pot, got dressed and sat down tried to figure out haw I had made such a mistake. After what seemed an eternity, her clock went off and she got up and got dressed and got dressed and left the house with her chastizing me about the clock deal. We arrived at the hospital about 45 minutes early as I also miscalculated the traffic, (there was none,) and signed in and sat down. Finally they called her back to start her IV and get her in that thing they call a gown. Really it is only half a gown and you know which half. So there I sat and waited to be called back to be with her. Well, I waited and waited and waited, meanwhile Bob and Sara Weaver came in and we waited some more. finally they called me back and said they had been looking for me. I said “i’ve been sitting right here”. She said “no you wern’t”. I said, “yes I was”. She said I went out there and walked up and down looking for you and couldn’t find you”. I said “you couldn’t find a man 6foot 1 weighing 260 pounds sitting in a waiting room with only 5 or6 other people”? She said,”you were not there”. I said “yes I was”. She said “no you were not”. I said “yes I was”. finally she just walked away. I guess I won. Well, david came in, we had prayer, Bob and Sarah came in and we waited on the doctor. The nurses camd in, the anestialog…the dr who puts her to sleep came in and we all waited on the surgeon. Her surgery was scheduled for 8am and at 8;10 the dr called and said she was running late and would be there shortley. She was and the party was on. We all went out in the waiting room prepared to wait one to 2 hours for word. Well, in about 45 minutes the dr came out and said it was all over, all went well, and showed me pictures of Gloria’s gall bladder. Really they were gross. The dr said she would be in recovery for about an hour and then we could see her. Well David had to leave as had already been over to St. Lukes to be with Bro Newsome and had a busy day ahead. Bob and Sara also left and Marty came in and we waited to go back. finally they said she was awake and we could go back and see her so we did. She was groggy and still sleepy but doing fine. Marty left and we began the wait until she was released. They told us she couldn’t lease till she went to the bathroom. So, I started feeding her ice. I force fed her ice until the whole cup of ice was gone and she still hadn’t gone and I was starving because I didn’t eat anything all morning because she couldn’t eat and I didn’t want to eat in fromt of her. by then I wished I had eaten anyway. I started saying things that I hoped would make her want to go to the batrhroom and finally at 12;10 she said I will go try. I said, “try hard please”. Well, to make a long story short, she came thru and she got dressed and we left and headed for Hardees, praise God!