Denton & Kay Rogers & Family

There are always interesting things that happen at the CCM with every group. For instance, in this group, we had a young elder that, on the third day of his being here, developed a bad headache on a Friday night. It developed into physical spasms and a lot of pain the next day. The CCM President got worried enough about him that, with the consent of the Area Medical Advisor, they took him to the hospital. He continued to have episodes while in the hospital that was observed by the doctors and the nurses there. They did all the physical tests that they could on him with no findings that pointed to a physical cause. After four days of testing they released him to come back to the CCM. This was last Tuesday. Wednesday, he went to the temple with us and could hardly walk into the temple and stay on his feet. I suggested that he go back to the CCM and wait until the next week to come to the temple. He insisted on staying and that he would be OK and could make it through the session without a problem and that he really wanted to be where the spirit is strong. Well, needless to say, he was doubled over after about 30 minutes and we actually had to stop the session to take him out and talk to him and get him some water. Well, he made it through. The next days, he continued to convulse, pass out and otherwise be non-functional to the point that it became clear that he could not function as a missionary and couldn't be sent out into the field like he was.
The President made arrangements to have him sent home on a medical release so that he could take care of his problems, have psychiatric help or whatever, and if he could get his problems resolved to everyone's satisfaction, he could be reinstated on his mission. When the President talked to his father, his father could not believe that anything was wrong with his son and that he must have done something wrong at the CCM. After assuring him that he had not done anything wrong, he got them to leave the CCM with some difficulty on Saturday morning. Next day, Sunday evening, the missionary was back at the CCM with his Stake President hoping to convince the CCM President to take him back because he had had no problems in the last two days. The missionary had told his Stk Pres that he had greatly over exaggerated, or he was faking the problem while he had been here. The CCM President knew better because, when he had visited him at the hospital and the boy was out, President took his car key and ran it over the bottom of his foot with absolutely no reaction. He couldn't not react to that stimulus. None of us can figure out what he is trying to do!! But we all know that he would be some mission presidents night mare!
After taking the Stake President through all of the happenings here at the CCM, he understood that maybe there was a problem here with the missionary and the Stk Pres couldn't pull his weight and get him back in. So we are waiting for a second opinion evaluation from a neurologist that there isn't anything wrong with him physically and for an evaluation from a psychiatrist on his condition. We really do hope he can get some help!
Never a dull moment at the CCM.