Prayer for Carol

Yesterday morning Carol had a weird incident. In short what I think happened was she had a varicose vein in her leg rupture, it chose the path of least resistance which happened to be a small scab on her leg. There was a lot of blood that came out, so much so that she could not believe it, I was talking to her later and asked her if it had hurt and she said that was the odd thing because she kept pulling her towel away to see if it was stopping, she could not feel anything at all. Anyways she was taken to medical and they were able to stop the bleeding. However the doctor is pretty freaked out about the whole situation, he thinks that she is not going to heal at this elevation. So that means that she will be on the next plane to McMurdo where they are going to do some more tests on her and keep her until the scab heals. So pretty much the best case scenario is that she will be there for up to a month, and worse case is that they send her home. Hmm, yeah, wasn’t really expecting that. When I had seen her shortly after it had happened it sounded like she was just going to be out for a few days, so I was pretty shocked to find out she was getting sent back to Mac town. So my request is that you all would be praying for a quick recovery for her, I told her that I would be asking you all to pray and she was very grateful for that. The additional awful part of this is if she heals and gets to come back, she will have to re-acclimate to the elevation, which will take about another two weeks. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Please, please be praying. As far as the kitchen stuff goes, for the next week I will be working with Chris the midnight sous chef who got here last week. That will be fine, I worked with him yesterday and he is a nice guy, however in about a week our midnight shift will start and he will have to move over to that. So I’m not really sure who I’m going to be working with, most likely it will be the guy who got promoted to lead sous, Beaver, and if that is the case then it will be fine. He is quite that character and I enjoy working with him. Anyway, all sorts of craziness happening, so please just keep praying that everything will work out.