I went to bed before Pam last night and had just drifted off when Pam called to me from outside the bedroom door. "Craig, can you come help me with something?"
Our kitchen, hallway and bathrooms are tiled. That's a good thing.
I opened the door to see Pam bent over holding her ankle with a small pool of blood at her feet.
She had been sitting in her recliner, scratched her ankle and suddenly had blood spurting out. We're not talking just bleeding...genuine spurting! There was a path of blood that led back to two more puddles in the kitchen.
She'd been unable to get the bleeding stopped by herself, but we got her seated with her foot elevated (in the tiled kitchen!). I got a sterilized pad and some tape from the first aid kit in my van and some compression plus ice got things under control. While she sat there waiting for it to stop I mopped the floors. Then I went back to bed while she slept in her recliner so as to keep her foot elevated.
This morning we talked about it, and in the middle of the night both of us had the same thought: CSI.
I thought to myself, if the cops show up they're going to see a floor recently cleaned of blood. I dare not use bleach to clean the grout because all the guilty people use bleach to clean up the scene of the crime. There's a bloody sock (a variation on O.J.'s glove) and the sink's trap will have blood in it.
I told her to be very, very careful today, 'cause if anything happened to her I was going to spend the rest of my life in the slammer.
The Navy has a 10 second window to shoot down that tumbling spy satellite, a spacecraft the size of a school bus. The effort will cost $60 million. They've warned airplane pilots flying west of Hawaii to be on the lookout for falling debris. Like they're going to be able to dodge it??
This is longer than most video links in my blogs, but too amazing not to stick with. Given my attitude toward numbers I suspect the guy is demonic.
Mathemagic
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This Sunday at Pathway we're going to look at the end of Genesis 17, God's announcement to Abraham that one year hence Sarah will give birth to a son.
Related: on the Today show this morning they did a story about the use of women in India as surrogate mothers for couples here in the states. They interviewed a couple who had gone through all the fertility treatments without success. She was able to conceive but not carry. So they've had their fertilized eggs sent to India where a woman there will carry the twins (!) to term. When they're born this couple will fly to India to pick up the babies. The cost is about 1/3 what it would be to use a surrogate mother here in the states, and the woman in India will get almost a lifetime's worth of income.
Aside from the very serious abortion issues involved with in vitro fertilization (issues which, to my thinking, exclude it as an option), something about this bothers me. The couple said they had sold their house to afford this final step in their efforts to have a baby. Which raises the question, is there any ceiling to what should be done and the dollars that should be spent in order to give birth?
From a theological perspective this raises issues related to the sovereignty of God. Is there a point at which we are guilty of refusing to accept God's sovereign will as good and perfect? At least as significant, given the thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of children who grow up as orphans, is it selfish to insist on a biological child instead of one of those children who, through no fault of their own, will otherwise spend their lives in foster care? Ask any one of those kids and they'll tell you the one thing they want more than anything else in life is a family, a place where they belong.
I thought the juxtaposition of Sarah's situation and the story about this couple was interesting.
Mississippi: Come and feel better about your own state.
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