Five months out…
Date: 2/9/05 at 2:23AM
And I am still here. I was hoping I’d be in better shape by now. But I am not complaining. It’s just that improvement has slowed to a crawl.
I am at work full time, doing everything I was before the surgery, but I don’t have much energy left over.
There is a changed perspective, however. Focus on what is really important tends to just stay center-stage now.
Looking back on August, and especially my plea to all my friends to pray a novena before the surgery that was scheduled for August 5, it looks like something amazing did happen after all. Thank you everyone who prayed that novena!
The surgery was canceled, so I ended up getting it robotically instead. Then there’s the timing of the surgery, which was delayed until just before Hurricane Frances. Of course, we didn’t realize that at the time of the delays, but that also turned out to be the best timing since I was in the hospital instead of trying to cope with the hurricane and the electricity outage.
And the clincher, of course, was the long time I was in surgery, and especially on the heart-lung pump, yet without any harmful effect. Thank you many times over to all who were praying for me. As I find things to complain about, as I encounter frustrations or annoyances, I remember how amazing it has all been, how people cared enough to stop and pray, and what a difference it made.
