“His name is Kobok, and his family was ready to disown him because he shirked his duties of farming and tending cattle. As it turns out, Kobok was simply unable to do this work because he had severe mitral stenosis, which is a narrowing of one of the main valves in his heart due to rheumatic fever as a young boy. He could not walk more than 25 yards without getting too tired to continue. I explained through an interpreter to the mother the condition and that without surgical intervention, Kobok would continue to get weaker until he died.”

Doctor Russell White (my brother-in-law) will be speaking at Saint Francis at the 9 o’clock service November 15, 2009 and at the forum following the service.