Healing... A Time For Newness...

It's going to take me alot longer to type this post... than it will be for you to read it. So do me a favor... read this really slowly... and I will try to keep the typos to a minimum.

I am now at home doing alot of nothing. I had surgery on the 10th...(Wednesday)... to repair some nerve damage caused by carpal tunnel syndrome. They fixed my right wrist and right elbow. The pain I have now... is nothing compared to the pain the carpal tunnel was causing me. I know I did the right thing by having the surgery done. There is just one problem... I am a woosey.

The only other thing I have had done to me surgically was corrective eye surgery when I was three years old.

I told them that I didn't want to see it, feel it, smell it, or hear it... so... they "put me out". The wrist surgery only took 15 minutes, but the elbow took about an hour. Because I am a "big lady"... they wanted to protect my airway... so they intubated me. I later felt as though I had been strangled... lotsa pain.

The guy stuck a mask over my face and said, "Now take a couple deep breaths for me." (My mind knew that there was probably a little more than just oxygen flowing from it!)... Yep!... I was right! The last thing I remember was feeling very small... and thinking... "I can't even imagine all my husband had to go through......ZZZzzzZZZZzzzzzzzZZZzzzz"... then I woke up and my surgery was all over.

Now... I just deal with the "ouch! Don't bump my arm!... man this hurts... uncontrollable itch of the miraculous power of healing...ouch!"

So far, all is good. It has taken me two days to get this posted. I have actually been able to do more for myself than I thought I was going to be able to. Usually, my back and legs are giving me fits of pain... and they have been behaving themselves.

I will be using the next six weeks off to "get a handle on things"... so to speak. A time of new beginnings is now upon us. Things will move along quite swiftly now... and I intend to one handedly help my family and I travel toward our new horizon. Hopefully... and God willing... we will be on our way to newness somewhere round about my birthday!

It is a good feeling to FEEL that the Lord is on your side!