Plastic surgery. Not on my face.

Hey!... SO THIS IS THE LAST OLD EMAIL LETTER I sent before to my friends at my church that I'm going to post up here. I hope that, if you were interested in hearing what's gone on with me, that you didn't find that lame but helpful. I'll get some cool pictures up soon too, with a little blood and stuff for the adventuresome bloghunters out there!

Sun. Jan. 4, 2009
Hello!!!

Hi there LOVers nearby and faraway. I should NOT be up past midnight writing an email for you all, but then again - it's been 2 weeks, and I miss y'all, and I've had like 6 naps today.

I hope you all are doing well and having a great start to the New Year. 2009...... Sounds funny. "Twenty-ten" - sounds even funnier.

I was all set to write an email explaining that I'm just waiting... that I'm just going through my vacuum changes 3 times a week with Hyper Nurse Karen, waiting for the plastic surgeon. My doctor won't go farther with me until an expert plastic surgeon decides whether i need another skin graft on the foot, since the 1st one failed. I suppose there's more going on than I realize; if my surgeon tried again and failed, maybe there could be malpractice fears... I don't know. So I was just waiting to see him on my birthday, Jan. 12, to see what happens next - until he moved it up to this Thurs., Jan 8. Big blessing. I don't really know to expect - he could say we're going into serious surgery in 2 days, or he could say, looks great, nothing needed!

The wound is still healing nicely, so that's great. We're hoping that we can move swiftly, and get this vacuum off, so the fixator can come off and we can have a surgery to fuse some ankle bones. But we're just waiting.

Another concern - *prayer request* - since I was between jobs and group insurance policies, I bought a short-term med. ins. policy. Long story short - so far it looks like they're covering me pretty well, thank God... - but their support totally ENDS July 1, since my policy was only for a year. Kinda sounds weird, but my agent explained it to me. Doesn't have to be a terrible thing, but I really pray to God that He will see these major surgeries taken care of, and I hope to be well into rehab by July. 6 months is sort of a long time - but it will go QUICKLY, I'm sure.

Anyway, I miss you guys, but I've been so encouraged and blessed by loooking through some of the cards and emails and other things that have been sent my way. Thanks so much. It lifts my soul to remember that there are people an hour and a half away that I love and who have spoken into and changed my life.

Hope to see you guys soon!

Love and peace of Christ,
Todd