Tag: personal growth

  • I’m Settling in Now

    mom-healing-woundI am getting settled at home. These past days, my mother has stayed here to nurse my wounds and take care of me. She is the most loving and caring woman. I am so lucky and grateful to have her as a mother. I know this definitely helps in my healing process.

    I have the pain medication in order, but I wake up to a throbbing heat pain in the sole of my foot. I am thinking “tolerate, tolerate”. At the same time Cristian, my son, wakes up with a terrible nose bleed. My mom is not here. I have stayed here alone with him. I try to remain calm.

     

  • Thank God for My Parents

    I thank my lucky stars to have both my parents be 100% support and most of all for the love and care.

  • Finality to the dramas

    I just had a drama with a nurse from 9am to noon today. There was a miscommunication between the pharmacy and the nurse station. I needed the pain pill and now an antiinflammatory that the doctor ordered and nothing happened in those hours. They felt like a lifetime. I cried all morning in pain. I feel like a druggie just wanting those darn pills to knock this pain out. My doctor came in telling me to be tough and go home. Yeah right. I dont want to be tough right now. I am having a pain crisis. (more…)

  • It Hurts, Block My Pain Please!

    Its 2PM. I am here in the hospital. The surgery went well. The pain has been intense. I think all the nerves in the foot and all the diggings , as the doctor put it, to take out all the pins caused a lot of  discomfort. One pin, he said was right on the joint and  two were so deeply embedded he had to leave them. I was given morphine and a nerve block the first day coming out of surgery. (more…)
  • The Power of Focused Prayer

    I am going to the hospital tomorrow for reconstructive surgery on my ankle. I have traumatic arthritis and diminished cartilage due to a car accident 5 1/2 years ago. The procedure is going to be two fold, first all the metal, about a dozen pins and two plates, are going to be removed and am going to have a  “halo” attached, also called Ilizarov and drilled into the bone in 12 places from my foot to my shin. It will be giving space to my joint and basically will look like I am a human shiskobob. I will have this attached 24/7 to my ankle for 6 weeks. (more…)