Are You Ready

We're told around 5:30 PM today that Eileen will be wheeled in operation room at 7:30 AM tomorrow morning here in Taiwan. Dr. Hsieh told us he is under no particular pressure at all since Eileen will be his only patient on the day. He adds Sat. on his surgery calendar starting June. So it turns out that Eileen is his very first Sat. surgery patient.


According to the data, Eileen has an excellent lung reserve that gives the surgeon more assurance to take out the lower lobe of her left lung. Which means Eileen will give up about 22% of her lung capacity. And we're hopeful that the rest lungs will make up the difference overtime afterwards.


By the way, Dr. Hsieh doesn't plan to put her in the ICU after surgery. The surgery may take about half day, say she will be done by noon tomorrow. She may come back to current room to recover if everything goes fine tomorrow. Say, she may be out of the hospital in a week or so.  


Our patient is very, very nervous about tomorrow. May our gracious Lord comfort her in His own unique way when she is overcome by fear tonight. As a part of preparation, she will take a procedure to flush everything out of her whole intestine system at midnight tonight.


Shalom!