Please pray

Those of you who know Rich Pyke will know that he is not one to seek attention! But he would be grateful if you could pray for him right now.

Rich has had an eye problem - a side effect of his diabetes - and he is having laser treatment for it. The weekly treatment, in which laser rays are shot into the back of the eye to seal tiny veins, is very painful and takes about 40 minutes a treatment (or as long as Rich can stand the pain!).

The doctors can't say if this treatment will be successful and Rich won't know for about 6 months. There are three possibilities:
1. that it is successful and Rich is left with reasonable eye-sight;
2. that it is partly successful and his eye-sight isn't too bad;
3. that it is unsuccessful and he suffers a serious deterioration in his eye-sight.

There is an added complication in that Rich is supposed to be taking up a new job in a different school in January. He has to decide in the next week and a half if he wants to take the new job with the added responsibility that it will bring.

There's one further problem: Rich currently has high blood pressure. He has had some blood tests and will find out on Wednesday if the high blood pressure is a result of the stress of the situation or something else.

Please pray for him and Deni.