Furlough

I don't know why they call it furlough any more. The original idea was that a missionary would come back to their home country for a year of rest after every 7 to 10 years on the field. We now come home for a shorter length of time, but more often, but their t'aint a lot of rest in furlough. (You can see I just finished a few days in Ken-tuck-y.) In our first two weeks of furlough we worked for 130 hours and visited three different states. We only had one day off in that time. We also had to deal with our things in storage, sorting and organizing them then in their new space since my sister, the keeper of our stuff, had moved herself. We visited dentists and optometrists and doctors. Jon is now scheduled for hand surgery the middle of next week. He still has some follow-up appointments with specialists as well and we are heading out this morning to our home office in Cary for the remainder of this week. This has literally been the first time in about a month that I have had the time to update my blog. So our schedule for now is to fly out this morning to Cary. Fly back on Saturday. Speak in a church on Sunday. Monday and Tuesday have doctors appointments for Jon and meeting with supporters for Susan. Wednesday Jon has his hand surgery and we will hang out here a day or two until he can travel, then we drive to Michigan to visit supporters there and hopefully arrange for my surgery in November. Good news there I will be able to have a type of laparoscopic surgery assisted by a robot which should save me considerable pain and recovery time. I am really happy about that. After a week or so in Michigan I will head to Fort Wayne for a few days, then back to Kentucky for a few days and then back north again, trying to see supporters along the way then heading into my surgery that week if we can get it scheduled for then. That would give me time to recover a few days before Thanksgiving which would be nice for me. So that is our general schedule for the next few weeks. I am kinda looking forward to surgery since it will mean that I will have to take at least a couple of weeks of rest all in the same place! Now that is just sad.