2 fyi's...

1. We're home, as of about 10:30 last night.
This actually turned out to be more of an adventure than we'd planned. 2 hours, 45 minutes of bumper to bumper, barely moving traffic about 30-40 miles east of Houston. "Barely moving" means that we covered about 12-15 miles in 2 hours, 45 minutes. Twice, we stood stone still for 20+ minutes. Luckily for us, my car's A/C is a bit iffy. *smile* Not the most comfy 165 minutes we've spent! When we got to the obstruction (bridge repair work), there were about 7 guys sitting calmly on the tailgate of a truck, doing...nothing. A several-mile long logjam of traffic, & they were doing zero. My hunch is that the non-English speakers in that group probably learned a number of new words yesterday afternoon...But it was all OK, and God graciously kept our perspective in check. The worst thing that happened to us was a traffic jam; this marks a pretty good day imo!

2. Lung Function tests yesterday
These were zero fun, but went well. I, um, passed. (3 different types of tests, all with big long Latin names...) Thus, the green light is still lit for the surgery next week. I played a wind instrument for a bunch of years, & grew up in, on, & under the waters of NW Florida. Plus, the cross trainer machine @ Temple Baptist knows me by name. Thus, I pride myself on good lung capacity, and yet, these tests were surprisingly hard! But the lady said I did well. She said most folks need a breathing treatment after the tests, but that I didn't.

BTW, go here to see the guy who'll be doing surgery next week. Prayers for him are welcome too, since he'll be the 3rd person this Spring to jam something into my lungs. (Just think...there are people all over the world who haven't even had one thing jammed into their lungs, and next Friday will be my 3rd...*grin*)

Still very positive in our outlook. Your prayers are greatly helping with that.

With love and hope,
Mike

p.s. - a Bill Engvall "here's your sign" moment: about 1 1/2 hours into the traffic jam--with no way to get on or off the interstate--this lady looks over at Lisa & says, "we've been stuck here for over an hour; you too?" Lisa said--well after we had moved on away from her car--"Nope. Just had the helicopter drop us here a couple of minutes ago cuz it looked like fun. Heeeere's your sign..." *grin*