The next update will be on Thursday, March 31.   

Altar Call:

Larry ministered last Sunday at First Assembly of God of Greater New Orleans.  The altar was filled with many making first-time decisions and rededications for Christ.  After the morning service, an usher came up to Larry in tears and said, "Larry, there was a man here this morning in the service under house arrest, and he had to leave exactly at noon while you were finishing the altar call.  He said to tell you he prayed the sinner's prayer and to thank you for the message and invitation to come to Christ."

Larry with laundry:

I snapped this photo of Larry today while he was carrying in the laundry.  It was the first time he has done laundry in 39 ½ years of marriage.  He did a great job! 

March 16, 2005

Greetings from Slidell, LA!  This week has really flown by.  Someone once said, "Pain is your friend."  Well, sorry, but pain and I are not best friends!  This leg cast seems to be getting heavier by the day.  I told my mom, "Remember that diet I went on ten years ago, I wish I would have stuck with it…it sure would help when I have to lug around my body weight.  HA!"  I am now using the walker most of the time as I fell while on my crutches last week and wasn't able to get back up.  It's a good thing that Larry was in the next room!  I felt like a beached whale, and I am sure he thought I was one when he tried to get me up off the floor.  After we finally got up, we both chuckled at the situation.  Such is life!

For the past two weeks, we have been blessed to have stayed at Pastor Ken and Fay Worley's home in Picayune, MS.  They were so good to us.  Their church, along with their son, Darrel and Sharon Worley's church in Picayune, brought in the most delicious array of Southern cooked meals you could ever imagine including seafood gumbo and jambalaya.  Larry's eyes twinkle every time the doorbell rings for he knows "treats" are coming.

Larry drove by himself to Thibodaux, LA, last weekend and held two services.  He had a great day of ministry and many recommitted their lives to Christ.  It was hard for him to go without me as I have only missed about three rallies in the past ten years.  I sure missed him those two days he was gone.  I was happy to see his smiling face on Monday afternoon.  I felt so secure again.  He's my sweetheart!

3:30 PM

Larry and I just walked out of Northshore Regional Medical Center in Slidell, LA.  I wasn't looking forward to seeing the injury again.  When they took the cast off and I saw it...I knew why I didn't want to see it.  As they say down South, "You (referring to the injury) sure don't look pretty.  You looks pretty ugly."  I readily agreed!  My foot is pretty swollen yet because of the severe trauma it experienced.  After Doctor Gosey, my orthopedic surgeon, looked at it, he looked at Larry and I and said, "You're not out of the woods yet."  He proceeded to show us the x-ray, which showed the break and the fractures.  There is a plate and six screws on the right side of my right leg, and two loooooong vertical screws that are attaching the foot to the leg.  Dr. Gosey's real concern for the next 2-3 weeks is the probability of infection which often happens with open injuries such as mine.  The more critical concern right now is that the skin will live and not die!  Otherwise, that will be another road of complications and skin grafts.  He reapplied a cast to my leg...this time a bright blue!  

Please pray with us for the pain to cease, for the swelling to go down, there will be no invasion of infection, and that the skin will stay alive, grow and heal.  I know I can count on you---because you are my prayer family.  

I will update you once again next Thursday, March24.  Keep believing for miracles!

Gloria