Hello, blogging faithful ones!
Yes, I know - I am apparently CLEARLY not one of those people, the chosen ones. I didn't post ANYTHING here all March long. That's almost as bad as when my roommate and I decided not to wash any dishes for the month of April, about 10 years ago. So now it's April 1 - and I'm back. Terrible reason for my malaise - I spent 2 weeks in the suburbs in March, attending my home church, and so I just never emailed them any updates since I was right there. And so I never blogged either. Ok, enough apologies. Hopefully nobody hates me; THANK YOU for even checking in here. Your concern and friendship and prayers really mean THE WORLD to me at this time. I will hopefully have even more to say here soon. God has brought some hopeful things into being. He's good at that.
From Mar. 28.
Hey friends - I had some cautiously really good news this week that I wanted to share with you.
I went to my main dr. this Mon., expecting to hear very little new, more of the same about the terrible injury. Instead, my dr. was very surprised that I have had very little pain and haven't needed pain meds for weeks. [Thanks be to GOD!] He said the x-ray showed possibilities that the bone is surprisingly getting some blood supply and may not fully die. And therefore he wants me to get out of the big boot cast and carefully practice walking more and more, moving up to 100% weight! I was shocked.
I also went to my 2nd opinion on Fri., a foot/ankle specialist with a big Orthopedic group in the suburbs. He was a great listener and very knowledgeable - for maybe 45 min. he met with us and cautiously echoed some of these statements. He supplied me with a supportive brace to use for *practice* walking, and he took a sort of calm, natural approach. He said we should gently see what the ankle can do for the next 6-9-12 months and not rush any surgery. This means waiting til after my insurance runs out in July... but he said it's the only way to know how the ankle will heal.
So, ~shock~ i'm gonna be practicing "walking," seeing what the ankle can do slowly. I so appreciate your prayers as I try to carefully discern answers to these questions. Looking forward to hopefully sharing the feast of Easter with you all -
Todd
No dishes washed for the month of April 10 years ago..... is that when I finally washed all of your dishes one day??
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited for your good news, God is so faithful and awesome. Thank you Lord that you continue to bless us over and over again!
Yes, to my shame... as I laugh, remorseless - that is exactly when you came over and washed 5,932 dishes at our place, Janna, out of sheer mercy for me and my housemate [not to be named for the sake of sparing the shame that it Will cause. :) :) :) ]
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