I've had a hernia since September of 2023. We've gone to Arequipa twice before to get it operated on but the surgeon didn't have the needed equipment. We changed surgeons and finally, after our third trip to Arequipa, I finally got it fixed. Yay! Please pray for an uneventful recovery.
The day after surgery, I was doing my devotions and the passage for the day was 2 Chronicles 21. Back then, even if you were king, having a hernia could mean dying a horrible death:
2 Chronicles 21:18-19 After all this, the Lord afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels. In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain.
I'm happy to be living now and not 2800 years ago in Israel!
I was bemused by the location of the nurse call button! It is impossible to access as a post-op hernia patient without getting out of bed. I needed the nurse once and called her on my cell phone. It's a new hospital. Still working out the kinks.
