Is "No News" really "Good News"?

I have been going crazy the past few days. We got word on Friday morning that my Dad is in the hospital in Mongolia. In July before they left on their mission, my Dad had a horrible "attack" where he was in excruciating pain in his stomach and back. He had a fever and was vomiting from the pain. He had ALL kinds of tests done...and at the end of everything, he was given a clean bill of health. Weird. We thought it was his gallbladder or something but they could not figure out what caused this horrible attack.

Well, it's happened again, and this time worse than the first time it sounds like. AND, my parents are in Mongolia trying to deal with this. Luckily they are still in the main city (Ulaanbaatar) where they have a very good private hospital run by Koreans. There is a senior couple serving over there right now as well and he is actually the Mission Doctor. When this happened (in the middle of the night), he was able to go right over and give my dad some pain meds and a blessing. However, because of the horrible reaction he was having--pain, fever, horrible vomiting, etc--they decided my dad needed to go to the hospital.

They were able to diagnose his problem. Something they could not do here in the U.S. It's hard to believe my dad had to go all the way to Mongolia to get diagnosed huh?! Anyway, they have decided he has Acute Pancreatitis. They have pumped him full of antibiotics, and tried to make him as comfortable as possible.

So, the reason I am writing this post actually, is because I am going crazy waiting to hear an update. My mom sent an email Friday to let us know what was going on. We (my siblings and I) have not heard anything since then. It's going on four days now! There is limited email access in Mongolia, so I understand WHY we haven't gotten an update. And I do know they were going to make my dad stay in the hospital until Monday. But it's Monday night (about 11pm) there right now, and still nothing. Because it is so late over there, I know we won't hear anything today either.

So, the saying is "no news good news" really the way to look at this. I mean, I figure it there was bad news, we would have heard something right? I guess this is teaching me patients since there is absolutely nothing I can do but wait. This post is actually really just for me--hoping to ease my mind on what in the world is going on!