{"id":1403,"date":"2011-03-15T07:32:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2011-03-13T20:37:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:37:49","slug":"whats-with-all-the-doctors-appointments-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2011\/whats-with-all-the-doctors-appointments-anyway.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s with all the doctor&#8217;s appointments anyway??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading our newsletter, or checking out our <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cleansocks\">tweets<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jcottrill\">Facebook<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shari.cottrill\">statuses<\/a>, you may be hearing a lot about <b>doctors and health<\/b> (or lack thereof!) these days.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m not going to go into all the gory details here. &nbsp;But it&#8217;s a mixture of several things&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Appointments that we really should have had some time ago, and we&#8217;re finally getting around to it<\/li>\n<li>Appointments and tests for Nathanael that we&#8217;ve been planning for for months (no surprises <i>yet<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>A regular appointment for me<\/li>\n<li>Additional appointments and tests for me, due to some new health issues new as of this month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table width=\"123\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/keep-calm-pray-hard.gif\" width=\"335\" height=\"379\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Keep Calm and Pray Hard\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>As my Mom pointed out on the phone recently, I can also say that our <b>van<\/b> has some &quot;health&quot; issues which urgently need to be dealt with before the end of the month. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve been to two doctors in two cities in the last couple of weeks, and Nathanael has gone for one test. &nbsp;Now I have three more tests (at two locations), and at least two more doctor&#8217;s appointments, Shari has one, and Nathanael has two &#8212; all most likely in the next week. &nbsp;And those are in <i>three different cities<\/i>. &nbsp;(Well, four if you count Ixtapaluca as separate from Mexico Distrito Federal&#8230; both part of Mexico City, but in two states.)<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you need to know (especially if you&#8217;re praying)?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No one is dying (well, <i>everyone in the world<\/i> is dying, but as far as we know no one in our family is on their way out especially quickly!). \ud83d\ude42 <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m the only one who really feels especially crummy, and so far the doctors say what they always say &#8211; I&#8217;m in <i>excellent health<\/i>. \ud83d\ude09 <\/li>\n<li>This is insane. &nbsp;It&#8217;s not easy doing all this in the midst of normal ministry. &nbsp;But it must be done.<\/li>\n<li>We would appreciate your continued prayers for our health, for our ministry, and wisdom over the next couple of weeks especially.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll try to keep you informed (although I don&#8217;t like getting too specific here &#8211; make sure you&#8217;re on our <a href=\"\">Support Team<\/a> for more details if you want to pray).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today &#8211; two appointments, and one pickup of test results. &nbsp;Three locations, but all in Puebla. &nbsp;<i>*phew*<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"-2\">Poster spoof courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk\/about.aspx\">Keep Calm-o-matic<\/a><\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading our newsletter, or checking out our tweets or Facebook statuses, you may be hearing a lot about doctors and health (or lack thereof!) these days. 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