This is how we celebrated the Russians Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. There Christmas is the 6th of Jan. Tues and Wed we spent at home with Gene in terrible pains in his knee. It sounded like labor pains in a knee. The pain was making him sick and we tried everything to make it go away. I finally called our mission doctor. And he said to give him some Tylenol with codene which I had and it helped it a lot. But he had to keep taking it for 2 days or the pains were right back. Then all of a sudden the pain left as quick as it came. All better. Must of been something floating in his knee that got stuck somewhere and finally moved. That is our medical conclusion. Great day Thursday. Enjoyed the office, went to senior council night. Good day. Then Friday it went down hill again. Gene told me his stomach was bothering him. He did not eat much lunch. I said lets go home and he said he had to much to do so we kept working. (I mean serving) About 4:30pm he looked at me and said I am sick we need to go. So I started closing down my computer and next thing I know President says Sister Gronning would you come in the office while we give Elder Gronning a blessing. I did not know he even went in Presidents office, but he was laying on his couch in terrible pain and told me to get him a bag that he was going to throw up the pain was so bad. Well the pictures explain the rest.
sorry about this picture. I cannot get it to delete.
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It was so sad to see him in so much pain. We were trying to get
him down the 2 flights of stairs and he just couldn't do it. |
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| The sweet elders did their best to make him comfortable |
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And this is where he ended up at the European Medical Clinic.
Not something we wanted to do in Russia. |
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What would we do without pain killers? He was so happy
to be out of pain.
Having dinner. A hunck of salmon that I had to take out of the
room is smelled so bad. He looks like an angel in his white
night gown. And he is drinking lots of water. Lots of water bottles.
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| Lovely view from his window. |
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This was my pretty walk home from the off tonight. A light snow
was falling and it was so pretty. The trees were so pretty. |
To sum it up. Russians believe you need to stay in the hospital along time. I think at home they would of gave him pain killers and sent him home. And the nurses all speak Russian so he has to
communicate the best he can. It is like playing charades all day long. He shares a room with a man who speaks Russian and English so he helps out once in awhile. Anyway, we are not staying there
much longer. We hope to get him home tomorrow and he can wait for it to pass here. It will be 4 days tomorrow, What an event coming down the home stretch of our mission. But we will both learn from this expierence and we will both learn more patience which we need to do,
1 comment:
Angel in white... exactly what I was thinking.
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