The Georges in Peru
Send a Greeting to Amy
If you want to send personal greetings to Amy, you can go to: http://www.nebraskamed.com/patients/well-wishers and make a card which they will print out and give to her! Put room 6827 on the form. (New as of Friday noon)
MoreNo Deficits!!
6:27 pm. I'm in the room with Amy right now and am glad to report that she is doing great! She can talk fine, move her arms and legs with normal strength and despite the surgeon saying she would certainly have a hemianopsia, she can see just fine in all directions! She's hungry and they…
MoreSurgery is over
Dr. Puccioni just came out to say that the surgery went well. He was able to remove as much tumor as he could see. He thinks it is tumor however. She is still asleep so they haven't been able to test her motor functions yet. Pray that she won't have any deficits when she wakes up…
MoreClosing now
A sign on the wall I the waiting room says 'closing now'. 3:53 pm. Not 'closing now, please go home' but 'closing the incision we're done'!
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So far so good
Sorry. Things are a bit upside down right now! (2:15 pm) I am in the waiting room at Clarkson with some friends. Surgery started at a bit after noon and should last 4 to 5 hours. We just had an update from the OR saying that things are going fine. Thanks for praying!
MoreSurgery tomorrow!
"Are you anxious about your surgery," I asked as we went for a walk around Zorinsky Lake yesterday. "No. I just want to get it over with!" She's almost there. Amy's surgery has been moved up yet another hour (she said it must be all those people in the Ambassador class…
MoreSurgery Time Change
I just got a call from the neurosurgeon's office and they have moved Amy's surgery up two hours! It is now scheduled for 12 pm instead of 2 pm on Wednesday the 9th. This means that her surgery shouldn't be running into a shift change or when people are wanting to head home from work,…
MoreUgh! I'll have to take PE!
There are all sorts of complications when one is a teenage girl who gets stuck in the country of her parents longer than expected. Mia anounced, "Ugh! I'll have to take all of those classes that I scheduled for next semester when I thought we wouldn't be here!"
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Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you had a great day of giving thanks with friends and family. We went to Crete, NE to visit Allen's sister Carolyn. She organized a 'Turkey Trot' which went on despite the miserable weather. Only 8 people started. Only 4 people ran the four…
MoreSurgery time
Amy was initially told that her surgery would be at 4 pm on December 9th at UNMC and that it would take 4 to 8 hours. We envisioned tired surgeons and nurses working until midnight, wanting to go home, yet needing to delicately remove tumor from fibers of Amy's brain that control movement on…
MoreThe Georges in Peru
About Us
We are Allen and Mary Beth George from Nebraska and Manitoba respectively. Allen has been serving in Peru with SIM since 2000 when he arrived with his late wife, Amy. Mary Beth has been serving in Peru since 2005. Sarah & Zach are both in their medical residencies in Chicago (Sarah in emergency medicine and Zach in family medicine). Ben is working for Ahlstrom-Munksjö in Taylorville, Illinois. Mia is in her 2nd year studying physical therapy at Loma Linda U. in California. Paul works as a programmer at Epic in Madison, Wisconsin.
What are we doing?
The Georges are church planting in Punta de Bombón, a town about about 6000 people on the coast of Peru.