The sermon I heard last week in Laos was that 'interruptions are a part of life'; meaning that they should not be avoided, but rather seen as part of ones day. It really hit home for me that God and the lives of those around us often come together through the avenue of an interruption.
Last Tuesday our family had a minor interruption when I developed some strange pains that started in my stomach and ended up really making the area around my kidneys very uncomfortable. At the last minute we decided to visit a local doctor who then told our host Francis Davy that I needed to be driven that night back into Thailand for tests. Like a great brother Francis took drove me nearly 3 hours to a great Thai hospital and Shirley his wife kept our family for another night at their place. The kids and Cari didn't mind at all- they really enjoyed playing in with the family and their new puppy.
The hospital ran multiple tests and gave me the best of care. It was the first time I had ever spent the night in a hospital for myself and on a scale of 1 to 10 this was a 10 for hospital visits. It seemed at times more of a 5 star hotel then hospital- what a treat, great service, Francis was able to spend the night there in a connecting room, I was even given a large gift basket full of food goodies and other stuff- definatly not in America anymore! I was discharged the next afternoon with no clear explanation other than I had had a small fever and that most likely the pain was from a small ulcer in my intestine. My guess it was too much spicy food for 3 weeks (I love Thai cooking).
In the end we all felt blessed to have been taken care of by the Davy family and that after 48 hours I was feeling 100%.
-Kurt
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