Job 38:11

We are in Pensacola, where our news about Malinda is not as bright as first seemed and reported. Tuesday immediate post-op was all good, but Tuesday evening she abruptly went into aphasia, with speech and behavior symptoms of stroke, a risk of any medical procedure into the brain. CTScan and brain MRI detected a tiny bleed deep in the brain but otherwise no signs. Physically stable, she was moved from ICU to a regular room on "the floor" last evening, but aphasia continues, though the physicians assure us that it will clear in time. She has a 24/7 attendant, enabling us to come to the motel for much needed night's rest. This is my M Update for this predawn hour.

With pictures, videos and reports about Hurricane Michael, the devastation and heartbreak, it would be obscene to write an everyday blogpost this morning. At 155 mph sustained and reported winds topping 175 mph it is BS to "minimize" this catastrophe as a category 4 hurricane: officially two mph below, Michael was a Five.  So far, we have no idea at all about the status of M's house or 7H and it may be days, surely not weeks, before we can get back into Bay County.

In the Sunday lectionary, our Bible story is Job, from whence Word everything comes home in spirit and in truth. 



Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

T