Seriously, Are You a Doctor?

Well, I really do not know any other word other than pain. Apparently I now have a spastic colon. What's next? Every day the pain is getting stronger... is left or so it seems. The more pain I'm experiencing, the closer I feel to being put under the knife once again. First they removed my appendix. What's left?

Are doctors for real? I'm just trying to see the humour in my misery.

Doctors opinion change, thankfully God's word doesn't. He does these things "for the good of those who love him." To me, Romans 8:28 is thousand times better than those pain killers. Just to know that God is in Control, is more than enough for me.

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-Lloyd

My Best Moments of 2006- Part 2,3,4

Regretably, there has not been one day in this year that I have been healthy. I'm now down with a couple of colds and possible have the flu. Missing two weeks of Varsity is hard enough as it is but I have faith that Jesus will carrry me. So to put a smile on my lovely "New Year" I decided to finally clear out the chesnut on 2006.

Best Moment # 2
Travelling in Italy

This is me inside the Colluseum (Rome)

Travelling with my Bro, Uwen , made the trip all the more better! I decided not to include a great brother photo ( It is his Birthday today, so he rightly deserves to stand solo)!

Best Moment #3
Travelling in Greece

In Athens (for more tour pics see my facebook profile)

Best Moment # 4

Finishing School

My Short Graduation Video

I saved the best for last! Graduating from School is the definately the moment I will savour the most. The year was tough and God carried me through. Since leaving beloved South Africa, to be accepted into UBC, faculty of Science was just a dream. Through the never unending twist and challenges of schooling in 2006, Lord Jesus, there is no way I could have got to UBC on my own. I'm humbled and truly thankful and I will try to make the best of the oppotunities you have blessed me with.

-Lloyd

My Best Moments 2006-Part 1

(Highlights were previously on this blog) click the link here it you did'nt catch it http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4404528073230845704&q=South+Africa+vs+Australia

I am getting better and should be back at University on Wednesday. These highlights of SA vs Aus at the Wanderes certaintly brought more than smile to my face. As a South African fan, it always feels good to get one up against the Aussies. Yes, South Africa holds the record for the most runs scored in an ODI ever! Enjoy. (This is probably the only match I will try to remember after witnessing the Semi Final of World Cup 99 a match where SA folded, after needing just one run to beat the Aussies). -Lloyd

Hello and Happy New Year to You!

Wondered why this blog has been dead for most of this month? I'm recovering!

My New Year has been painful. I've spent the first three days in hospital, the next four recovering at home and from then on it only got worse (in a health wise). After two days back at university the pain resurfaced...

After couple of pain killer's I visited the medical clinic my Dad works at and the doctor suggested I have a blood test. My parent's heard right and my Dad spoke to the surgeon.

Long story short, the surgeon used a scope to have a look inside my tummy. Then he removed my appendix and my appendix appeared normal.I'm at home now and recovering quickly.

The good part about the painful new year, God has truely been merciful untoward me and I have been humbled.

Here's what I know now. People can exhibit the symptoms of bad appendix differently. An appendix can become inflamed and can also return to normal. The question is when will an appendix burst?

My point-it was God who led me to the clinic, after just a simply prayer before going onto a bus while I had the option of staying on campus and resorting to the pain killers my Dad had given me. The surgeon apologized to my parents for the pain I was suffering and he prepared them for the worst and suggested the cause of the pain to be cancer and of course nobody told me. Poor me, lying in a backroom in Emergency blistfully unaware and in pain!(Would have been nice to have known the surgeon's educated guess. Let me tell you now with the pain I was experiencing, to have heard the words "cancer" there is no way I could have coped)!

The blood tests were clean and it was agreed that my appendix be removed. To some that story resembles the worst possible start to the New Year. In and out of the Hospital seems to be great way to spend a holiday.

To me, that was the best New Year yet. I never had the answers to my pain or for that matter my health but I know that there is a God who is Soverign and does these things for good of those who love him. Romans 8:28. Oh ya, I almost forgot...

Happy New Year to you!

-Lloyd