Happy 94th Birthday, Papa Lee!

a week late (oops!) we celebrated Papa Lee's 94th bday on his porch. he was very excited because he had not celebrated his real birthday.


sheila, larry, mandy, and i made the trek out there ... we ate cake and sang to him with the help of some of his children and grandchildren :)


nothin better than chocolate cake


please pray for papa lee:

the wednesday after we celebrated his birthday he was having trouble peeing and sent for help at the clinic. i rushed down to Bentley Bay and could NOT get a catheter in him (if you want to know the details of why not i will tell you via email... several men have told me the story is pretty painful). i could see his bladder through his abdomen and knew we needed immediate help, especially with his weak cardiac status.

so we booked it down island and got a taxi to the coxen hole hospital. this is where the story gets really bloody... sparing the details, they performed surgery IN THE ER without pain meds to cut open his abdomen and give him a suprapubic cath. the surgery was unsuccessful (i have no idea why, i was standing right there and couldn't see why they couldn't get it to work) so he was rushed to the OR. he was transfused blood over night, but we were not sure if he was going to make it.

the next day he was flown to la ceiba to see a urologist. he was there for a few days... because the day he got there the urologist left for tegucigalpa (at the risk of sounding cynical i have to say... typical).

he has been diagnosed with bladder cancer. it is still bleeding slowly, and it has spread to his bowels. he is ready to go home to Jesus, and is at peace with whenever God takes him home. he is now here in Helene, praise God. please pray for his family as they help take care of him and that his pain will be minimal.