The Georges in Peru

Artistic Arizona

Today we went to another Mayo Clinic campus to get some autonomic tests done (like a tilt table test where they take one's blood pressure lying flat and standing up by moving the bed while the patient is motionless) and I was reminded again of how beautiful Arizona is. There are amazing rocky…

Getting better

Mary Beth wouldn't say she's feeling good yet. She's still in a lot of discomfort, but today was a better day and I think she's getting close to having a 'good day'. We had to go get another COVID swab at the hospital for her followup appointments tomorrow. This one didn't seem…

Home from the Hospital!

Yay! Mary Beth was released to home from the hospital today around 2 pm. Here you can see her with nurse Carley getting into our car to go home. 'Home' is used loosely here, since Mary Beth had never been to where we are staying before I brought her here. But she is…

Post Op Day #1

Mary Beth is doing well and having a good day. She's able to stand or sit up without feeling like she is going to pass out. Last night she shed tears of joy when she said that she took what felt like the first deep breath of her life! We are so thankful that she had the surgery here as…

Surgery Day!

The day has finally arrived! A month ago MB decided, "I want to go to Mayo. I'm going to tell God that's what I want, even though it doesn't look like it is possible. He likes to give us what we want if we ask for it." So she started praying to be able to go to Mayo and here…

8 appointments!

8:45 amMary Beth had her echocardiogram. It took the U/S tech quite a while to get good views of Mary Beth's heart, but it showed that her right heart outflow tract was markedly compromised.10:30 amMet with Pamela Valer the international patient coordinator. Turns out she is originally…

Sunday Update

6:47 amMary Beth got her results from her nasal swab test yesterday and they are negative, so she was allowed to go in for her MRA (magnetic resonance angiogram) to make sure the circulation to her head is unimpeded by cholesterol plaques or anatomical abnormalities. 8:00 amAttended our…

Arrived in Phoenix!!

Yesterday, we got up at 5:45am to get ready to go to the repatriation meeting point at Larco Mar, a park/shopping mall in the rich part of Lima. We were there before our 7 am appointed time and found a line of 300 people waiting to get on the buses for the air force base. I parked our…

Thursday Update

Tomorrow is a big day. We have to meet at the Lima Marriott Hotel at 7 am with all of the other North Americans who got approved for tomorrow's repatriation flight. They will take us in shuttle buses to the air force base (since the airport is closed to international travel) and we will…

Wednesday Update

Many have asked which of the kids are traveling with us. I guess a picture from yesterday's trip will quickly show that Mia and Paul are with us.

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Allen & Mary Beth George

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.

Where are we?:

Working on Church Planting with SIM in Latin America, South America, Amazonas, Peru

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