Update on the health of Tamal Krishna Goswami

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>From Yudhisthira Dasa, ISKCON Dallas:

 

My dear godbrothers, godsisters, and well-wishers of His Holiness Tamal

Krishna Goswami,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I am

writing to give another update on the health of His Holiness Tamal Krishna

Goswami. All seemed to be going exactly according to everyone's hopes and

prayers from his surgery for prostate cancer on January 28.

 

For reasons only the Supreme Personality of Godhead knows for certain,

Goswami Maharaja has had another health-related setback. Thankfully, it is

not a reoccurrence of cancer, which it seems the surgery was very

successful

in catching. However, a complication in the earlier surgery has caused a

blockage in his left kidney. He received two relatively non-invasive

procedures last week, but unfortunately both of them failed to remove the

blockage. Now the current course of action is to perform a full surgery

with

general anesthesia sometime in the next few days. Considering that the

surgery is actually quite serious and that it may be held as early as this

Wednesday, April 7, please check the internet (or with your local leaders)

often for the exact schedule. Since the time is not yet fixed, we will send

another update as the schedule is finalized. Many devotees will want to

hold

kirtan during that time, so please be prepared to adjust your schedules as

necessary.

 

We certainly don't want to alarm anyone unnecessarily; however, it should

be

understood that there will probably be some sort of permanent kidney

damage.

Only the surgery will reveal the extent of the damage and exactly how it

will affect Goswami Maharaja's overall health and daily activities. The

recovery time for this surgery will be another six to eight weeks and he

will spend this time again in Dallas.

 

Goswami Maharaja feels confident that it is due to the sincere prayers of

the vaisnavas that his first procedure on January 28th was so successful in

the removal of his cancerous prostate. We should be confident that the

Supreme Lord will once again answer the prayers of His devotees to help

this

procedure on Wednesday go successfully. Anyone, who knows Goswami Maharaja

well, knows how motivated he is to serve Srila Prabhupada and ISKCON as

much

as he is able. Please join us in prayer that his surgery is 100% successful

so that Goswami can be blessed with a full and long life of service to all

the vaisnavas within ISKCON and all of mankind.

 

Thank you for your prayers.

 

Your servants in Dallas,

 

Yudhisthira dasa