We can rebuild him; we have the world’s first bionic man!!!
Okay slightly, melodramatic!
I was back at the hospital yesterday first for an echo cardiogram, where the technician valiant tried to do away with the need for the sonogram, by attempting to push the ‘wand’ through my chest wall and directly into my heart!! I nearly suggested at one point that opening my chest would be easier for her!
After that I was fitted with a heart monitor that I have to wear for 24 hours, so I writing this with five little pads stuck to my chest. This did require some little patches to be shaved on my chest, for like Esau I am ‘an hairy man’(sic). This was necessary so the pads would stick properly. One positive thing from today was I was able assess my understanding of Urdu as the lady fitting the heart monitor only had a little English, but between her little English and ‘mera choti Urdu’(my little Urdu) we were able to communicate and I felt very proud of my little self!
Today I am preaching at the Cathedral, and for those of you not fortunate enough to be an Anglican, you maybe unaware that today is the First Sunday in Lent, and we have decided to preach our way through the Old Testament readings in the Sundays of Lent. I get to kick off tomorrow with Genesis 3 – The Fall of Man.
After this I have a brunch date with Stewart, Laurie and Dez at the Marriott hotel, followed by provisions buying at Makro.
Production preparation are still going full steam ahead, the main problem remains the cast reluctance to actually use the words as written by Mr Priestley!! The set has been built and despite my slight slur on the name of Tanveer Carpenter, he actually came in exactly on time with this one. Our Assistant Director, Umaima (one of the Y11’s) is brilliant and has all the props and furniture sorted and has had all the cast measured for costumes so assuming that the cast get their heads around the lines, we should have a success on our hands!
Time is passing at fantastic rate and it has struck me today that 6 weeks from now it will be Easter Sunday and Lord willing, the production will have passed of successfully, 37 kids and 4 staff will have had a fantastic time in Egypt and Thomas will be here and looking forward to two weeks in Pakistan, with a few days in India thrown in for good measure!
Anyway I have just remember that I made up one of the Angel Delights, that Katey sent to me so time to go and enjoy that…
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Wishing you a swift recovery, Michael.
And a big "shaabaash" on chatting to nurses in Urdu .... I seem to remember at some point in the past chatting up a very pretty nurse as I came around from a general anaesthetic at Sialkot's Memorial Christian Hospital ... caused something of a stir at the time, as I recall. Obviously my delirium got the better of my ordinarily impeccable behaviour.
But what is it about nurses.....
Well, I wonder what your take is on the election stuff. There's a BBC website article suggesting that the PPP are dominant .... but that's based on an extensive tour of northern Sindh, which is hardly representative of the country as a whole! I take it Karachi and Punjab will be the key places. Any vibe from there? I also imagine that although the result in NWFP won't determine the overall result, it will be very significant in terms of longer term stability. I wonder if the attacks on ANP rallies & personnel will frighten people away from or towards the harder-line Islamic candidates ........
Very best wishes and all prayers.
Glad to hear things are going ok, I see you haven't lost your critical eye!
Good to hear you're managing to get into India in the future too, would have been good to have stepped over the line late last year!
God bless
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