Hey everybody,
MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope that your celebration of Christ's advent has been and will be a worshipful experience for you and your families this year.
It's been an ok week here on the ol' ranch. I've decided that the foot has become all about tradeoffs. A month ago, I felt good; I was pretty mobile, and my pain was minimal. However, all doctors and nurses were frustrated with how the wound was not healing. These days – I've definitely NOT felt a-OK, I have a lot of pain even sitting and standing, let alone moving, and I'm on a steady diet of oxycodone, a medicine I am incredibly *thankful* for. But I'm ok with doing a trade to have my present grogginess and pain, as long as that gives me the long-term health of my foot. It definitely looks "better". The old pictures of my former scab show a huge scar that's yellow, gray, and a variety of other Picasso-painted tones. The new pictures on Facebook (check em out! They're bloody!) show a bright red foot fresh from the meat market. And Fri. when the nurse changed the vacuum (ouchhhhhh) it was drying up nicely. All the people "who know" keep saying how good it looks.
I still enjoyed a full week, despite how I felt. Mon. afternoon we got a visit from 4 fun-loving Holsclaws. Very great to see them as they were on their way to Norway… Wed. I got to see my cousin Kyler play in a 5th/6th grade basketball tournament. Wow – I forgot how funny that stuff can be. Thursday morning, Matt Tebbe, James Currie, and Mike Nowak came by, with remote-controlled Ford F-150 in tow. Thanks for coming guys; it's just great to be able to talk and have community again. And my nephew's going to love my truck.
And LAST NIGHT – we went out to Rockford for a surprise birthday party for my mom. The 11 of us enjoyed a really nice seafood buffet dinner and a Steve Green Christmas concert, and my mom was given a wonderful tribute book of photos, quotes and stories that my sister did masterfully online with some help from me. She was thrilled and well-loved.
Anyway – I really wish that I'd be able to see you all again. I have to be patient with the vacuum, pain, and the slow progress. The doc said on Mon. that I'd need to keep the vac on for another 1-2 weeks. I'm praying for that day to come, but I know they don't want to take it off too soon (for the SECOND time). So… maybe God is teaching me how to just accept that this is what it is for now, and it's ok. I'm trying to think and live out what it means to be thankful, hopeful, faithful, truthful, and peaceful. I need a lot of help a lot of times. Like when I thought I lost my painkillers at the BB game. Or when I got home last night with a good Baptist hangover from too much chocolate cake and too much time on my foot.
God is faithful, even when we are not. That is the background for the Christmas story, I think.
Love and grace and peace to you guys. Thanks for reaching out to me… Hope I can do better at getting back to each one of you individually.
Hope to see you soon.
Todd
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