A Quick Prayer Request for this week for the Haitian Donkey

Hi All:
This truly will be a short request for prayer for God’s direction for us this week. As you know, I have the intestinal fistula and, by the grace of God, that seems to be doing better, but after we drained it, Dr. De Cook wanted a CT scan to see if we could see where the leak was, etc. That was on May 9 and didn’t show much except a couple of fluid pockets in my belly wall that didn’t seem attached to the pocket Dr. De Cook had drained.

We sent a copy of the DVD to Dr. Bartlett, my Pittsburgh surgeon, as always, but sent it by priority next day mail so he could give us an opinion on it soonish, we hoped. We checked with his office a couple times to be sure they got it, didn’t get a straight answer, but his PA called Friday night after 6 pm to say that they didn’t like the pockets and wanted a repeat CT scan as soon as possible, as they didn’t want to do my procedure on the 6th of June in Pittsburgh if they still existed. Since it is the holiday weekend, I cannot even try to schedule something before Tuesday morning and have to get it to him and have him read it before we leave next weekend. Sometimes doctors can be a bit less than prompt in answering your concerns?

Please pray that we can get the CT scan scheduled in time and that it will be clear of the fluid pockets, so I don’t need another drainage procedure and that I can have the scheduled procedure on the 6th of June as scheduled. This is the second step in developing the vaccine, they will harvest a bunch of my white blood cells and try to grow a killer vaccine that will stimulate my own body to attack and kill the cancer cells. A great concept, but VERY experimental still, so some risk and grief, but nothing else seems to stop the cancer, so he (and Karen and I) are willing to try this.
Again, thanks so much for praying for and supporting the stumbling Haitian Donkey.

In His Service,

Bill, Karen, Rachel, James and Jenn Ten Haaf