Incarcerated blog post?
Stupid painful hernia blog post?
What to do if you feel like you're going to die from pain...
Oh I know! "How to lose 12 inches in one hour!"
This was my Tuesday experience: an ER visit and emergency surgery to correct the strangulated hernia and cut out twelve inches of dead small intestine. Ouch. Now I am recovering from a second and more invasive abdominal surgery. Two in 5 weeks! Lucky me.
Thank goodness my dad and Jeanene were here to help me get to the ER and to take care of all the kids including five week old Gideon. They've gone home, Gideon is finally and after a lot of hassle rooming in with me. The kids are being cared for by ward members.
I guess the April half marathon is out for me...
Want to see a gross nose tube picture? Here I am, post-surgery glory!
I think I'm supposed to learn patience and how to be still this year. Previa, csection, hernia... Do I sound old or pathetic?!? Both?
I am blessed. I really am. I am trying to be grateful so I can find joy in this journey.
Come what may and love it.
5 comments:
We shall have a contest to name this blog post. The name I would give this post is: Grateful to be living in the 21st century! What a blessing that all of these challenges that you've faced have been ones that are corrected by surgery (which would not have been possible one hundred years ago, I think!) I, too, and so thankful that Dad and Jeanene were there to help and that your ward members are so kind. You're blessed, really! Even though it feels like a trial... once you start counting those blessings, you'll know... you'll know!
By the way... you are NOT old! So THERE!
Ah, ah, ah, ah, Stayin' Alive! That is my entry into the name the blog post contest. Technology, capable professionals, modern facilities, treatments and medications save lives. We are so blessed that you are still with us. A big thanks to Keith and Jeanene and your ward family for all the assistance. Good thing you have a devoted husband and darn good kids to take care of you. It is hard not to be in a position to help at times like these.
oh dresden this is terrible. I am so sorry. Hope you feel better soon.
So glad that Keith and Jeanene were there to help! Glad you are ok.
...and you can not be old...because that would make me really old :)
I, too, am grateful for modern medicine. It is at times like this that we marvel that our great-grandparents lived as long as they did. We love you all and will continue to pray for you and your family.
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