Wednesday, April 06, 2005
another change of direction...
I haven’t known how to say this, so I haven’t said anything for a long time. I suppose I still don’t know how to say this, but I should really say something… My fear is that I’m going to sound depressed and upset and I’m going to make other people feel that way as well, so let me state for the record that I am not depressed at the time of writing this entry. Life just threw another curve-ball, that’s all.
I was in China just about a month ago. I had a great time in Macau in February, saw lots of great friends, even met up with a few great friends in Nanjing and Shanghai in the end of February and the beginning of March. And then I got a phone call from my family back in the States saying that my mother was in the hospital.
Turned out that she had a brain tumor, and that the surgery would take quite some time for her to recover from, and that I was needed back in Colorado Springs, Colorado to help take care of her during the next few months. Of course when she told me this I was more than happy to come help my mother! Who wouldn’t?
So the long and the short of it is that I’m not in China anymore. I’m deeply sorry to all my Chinese friends that I missed while I was there for about two weeks. I swear I miss you even more now. Of course I’m very happy to be here with my mother, and I’m grateful for the chance to help her out, but I won’t pretend that my heart doesn’t cry out with longing to return to China, be with my friends, and continue my graduate studies.
Mom and her doctors and everybody are all hoping that I’ll be able to come back to China in September. I think I’ll wait a little while before thinking about it too much. I hate it when I get my hopes up for something and then I have to change plans again. That’s been happening a lot over the last few years, so I’m taking a break from plans of any sort as much as I can.
So that’s the latest on my whereabouts and current condition and all. If you’re concerned about my mom, you can find out the latest on her health at her own personal website: nancybowers.com/updates
Please keep her (and me too, while you’re at it) in your prayers, if you’re the praying sort. If you don’t pray, you could always just send us loads of money instead…
Ha ha… just joking. I know that’s not very funny, but hey… one ought not to be serious all the time. God loves laughter, you know…
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