After the long journey to South Africa, I was surprised to meet my mother at the airport in Durban. It was great to see her and she had a coffee while I had my first Appletiser in years. Apparently my dad had insisted that she pick me up instead of staying with him at the hospital. She had just received a call from the doctor that the operation had been completed successfully, so that’s great news. He will be in the ICU for the next couple days so I won’t get to see him till tomorrow. Now his rehabilitation begins, but the first step has been a good one. I’ve been reading about heart surgery and it looks like it will be a while before he is back at full strength. While it has been a shock to realize that my dad had to undergo double bypass heart surgery, we can be relieved that it was caught before he had a heart attack and I’m grateful that in our day and age one can expect a full recovery from an operation such as this.

This morning as I was making final preparations I received a call informing me that during the angiogram my father was undergoing today they discovered serious artery blockage, serious enough to warrant double bypass surgery. So, in the next few days he will be going under the knife to correct the problem. It seems providential that my brother and I happen to be traveling half way around the world at such a time as this. I hope that we can be an encouragement to him and my mother at this difficult time. I ask that you’d be praying for a successful operation.