Sad news about Dottie. We all need to continue to pray for her.
Again, piggybacking, Reatha's e-mail, here is teacher update. Lou is teaching this week and Durward the following week.
Need commitments for transportation for Betty. I am gradually learning the job description for the class President. Also, overlooked recruiting replacement for Social Chair. Help!!
Need all the reminders I can get. Anyone think of another chore undone?
Willard
Dear Ownbey Family, After sending you that update yest'y from Billy, I got THIS news from Susan Mobley this aft'n...
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Last night Dottiie fell down some stairs at home! She has been admitted to Presby main, room 576-C. Doctors are wondering if the fall might be related to low heart rates she's had recently. They are evaluating this now. Billy is with her.
Susan Mobley, RN
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Don't know of anything we can do at the moment (besides cards and prayers). DOTTIE TOBIAS Susan will keep me posted, and I will then contact you.
Peace and Prayers, Reatha - Tue - 5:30pm
Dear Ownbey Family,
I FINALLY remembered to contact BILLY TOBIAS, asking how his mom's been doing.
Here's his response...
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Hi Reatha,
Mom is incapable of handling the logistics involved with receiving and sending e-mails at this time. That may change with the passage of time but as of now, she simply cannot do it.
We have been through a somewhat rocky time with her regarding her heart rate recently. It is now very low and her doctors are in the process of weaning her off of certain medications in the hopes that that will bring the HR back to where they would like it to be. She has been in the upper 30s, and over the course of the past two weeks, has gotten up to the mid to upper 50s. Normal is considered between 60 - 72 BPM. It drains her energy to be lower than the expected norm.
She is attending outpatient therapy sessions for speech and cognition. We will be at CMC main this afternoon for speech. The main point of emphasis is to try to increase cognition, and she seems to have trouble with the initiation of sequences. These issues are to be expected and are considered another progression along the path to recovery.
Thank you very much for asking about Mom. I pray for God's peace to you and that you may fare well,
Billy
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It's been good having the following folks back in SS:
Ellen Chason, Cristina Halpern, Nancy Pack, Twala Kruger, Eleanor and Cal Chesson... Have I left out anyone? I think most of the rest of us have been able to come most of the wintry weeks -- except that BIGGEE when only the 11:00 svc was offered!
BTW: MEL HALPERN is at home these days w/in-house nursing, and CRIS is very pleased w/the care he is getting.
I hope some of you got to go to the Woodcarvers' Show this past weekend. I was able to scoot by during its final hour on Sunday aft'n. I didn't see KEN or ANNE BUKER, so I don't know which items were his... It's alway a fun event :-)
Anything else? Peace, Reatha - Mon - 8:50pm
Subject: Ownbey - fun news :-) |
From: "Reatha Andrew"
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:29:33 EDT |
Peace,Reatha - Wed - 7:30am
Got this GOOD news today from BOB GROGAN..
Dear Ownbey Family,
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Feat accomplished. I have a new pacemaker. Should no longer use a cell phone. Should stay a 'comfortable' distance from electronic appliances. A menu followed that No. 1 statement.
The surgery was performed on Wednesday morning at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, VA. It took one hour and thirty minutes to prep for the operating room-shots, tubes in my left arm, plus the connection to the computer just above the surgeon's head. They did no anesthesia -- only a 'local.' I was awake the whole time and felt nothing. After 20 minutes, Dr. Willms said, "I am all through." I asked him whether or not he put in the pacemaker. He said that he not only put in the pacemaker but he and a company representative had checked it very thoroughly and that it was working as it should be. For one thing it raised my heart beat from 30 and sometimes below that per minute to 60 per minute. I had to remain in the hospital until just before noon today. Everything continued to work perfectly.
The surgeon said that my heart had worn out [his words] and that a mechanical device was now required.
When I left the hospital today it seemed that my energy level had doubled at least. I can now get up from a chair or sofa without any assistance or without having to push off or hold something. Fantastic.
Wanted to let you know that all is well and that I am thankful for all the prayers that were said in my behalf.
Love, Bob
Financial figures for our "General Fund" budgets and spending at MPUMC for the last few years are available on a new link on the MPUMC Web Site. Click here to see. Also, a listing of several Committee Memberships is included.
2009 Revenue was $4.9 million (M) compared with a Budget of $4,5M, Expenses of $4.8M and an Expense Budget of about the same resulting in a surplus of $142,000 for Revenue over Expenses.
Since 2006, Expenses increased from $4.4M in 2006 to a budget for 2010 of $4.9M - an increase of 11.54%. Revenue increase estimated to be up from $4.6M to $4.9 Million for an increase of 5.92%.
Some Expenses included Benevolences dropping from $743,000 in 2006 to $639,282 for budgeted 2010. Administration stays about the same at $475,000, Communications increased from $75,000 to $226,000, Congregational Care and Evangelism dropped from $341,000 to $249,000, Insurance Taxes and Retirement rose from $323,000 to $439,000, etc . . .later more
These figures do not include Jubilee Plus, the Wesley Fund, and perhaps other funds as not known.
Had a switch in teachers today as Don Hammer replaced Carol Douglas.
We approved a Helping Hands grant for a mission trip of Jim Hatfield to Costa Rica later in the year
Feb 21 -- Sydnor Thompson -- Book: THE OTHER PREACHER IN LYNCHBURG, by Killinger
Timothy B. Tyson’s acclaimed Blood Done Sign My Name was discussed Sunday, February 7, in the library. The book is for sale in the Goodness Gracious! gift shop. It focuses on the murder of a young black man in 1970, a tragedy that dramatically widened the racial gap in the author’s hometown of Oxford, N.C. The church discussion comes at the release of a movie based on the book. A one-man play based on the book will be at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 17, at the McColl Family Theater at ImaginOn, 300 E. 7th St. uptown. Tickets: 704-973-2828. See what th Charlotte Observer says about the play by clicking here.
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