Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Duct-taped volleyball

I took care of a lady yesterday who is 70 years old, who for the past ten years has had a massive (2.4 kg) lipoma attached to her left arm tricept. Imagine taking a volleyball, duct taping it to your left arm (make it secure now, it's got to last 10 years!) and hauling that around. An hour later, she came back from the Recovery Room, lipoma-free and smiling. Imagine the freedom!

6 comments:

Leslie Greer said...

Praise the Lord for allowing people to have the skill, wisdom and knowledge to take care of these people! You too!!

Off to the beach tomorrow morning for 5 days. I will continue to pray for you.

Kelsey said...

I love reading the stories of your adventures, and wamilele wamilele mungu is one of my favorite songs!
We love you and are continuing to pray that a beautiful story will continue to be written.
Kelsey

Angela said...

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's amazing.
-A

Anonymous said...

That's a huge lipoma. In the US it would get cut off in the office when it first started.

Katelyn said...

Lycia I am so proud of you! Your blog is amazing and I know you are such a blessing to the patients and the staff. Keep up the hard work! I love you!! <3 Kate

Mom said...

Hi Lycia,
I'm sitting next to your mom on the couch watching the US vs. Japan. We are both wondering why you haven't posted anything new since Wednesday. I love the blog and just want to see more of it! I miss you and am praying for you! Love you, Robbie (and Gary too)

Hola Lycia, se ve que te ha ido bien. Que gusto de poder estar siguiendo lo que esta pasando por alla. Que estes bien y te agradecemos por compartir de lo que estas viviendo. Te extranamos, Imelda

Hey! We love you and are thinking of you much as we are here with your folks watching the ladies' world cup final. Pretty exciting actually. Karita & Xavi

Hola niana, te extraniamos mucho y pensamos mucho en ti. Que Dios te siga bendiciendo y cuidando. Muchas bendiciones. Xavier

HI sweetheart,
Such fun to have all these ones here - missing you lots, and they were all enjoying the updated blogs - they hadn't seen them recently...... have a lovely evening, and looking forward to chatting again soon. Robbie and Gary leave on Fri for Seattle, and we leave on Tues 26th. I am off this week on Tues and Thurs, so call when you can - love you Mom

Dad here. We are still biting nails as teh world cup go into penalty kicks. We are with you in spirit. Love, Dad