well, Friday was a success!

If you have to have surgery, that was the way to do it. we didn’t have to be in LR until 10, surgery was around 12:30, I was out by 1:00, an hour in recovery, ate lunch at McAlister’s, stopped at Garden Ridge, came home, rested for a while, ran to a couple of stores in Arkadoo, and mom made dinner.

Not bad for a Friday with your parents!

Seriously though, everything went really well. I’ve been pretty sore on the left side for most of the weekend, but nothing that I couldn’t tackle with some Tylenol.

(I’ll leave out the fact that I can take a shower for serveral days, so I’ve been washing my hair in the kitchen sink and I’ve only been wearing button up shirts because I can’t raise my left arm!)

When I was in recovery, the guy asked me what my level of discomfort was on a scale of 1-10 (10 being bad) and I told him a two maybe “just because its supposed to hurt”. I think he forgot what all I had been through. At that moment with some drugs still in my system, nothing really hurt at all. He gave me a glass of ice water and two tylenol.

I have a picture that I’ll try to remember to put up, but the scar is bigger than it was last time, but they had to remove some scar tissue as well as the port.

So, in the words of one of my clever co-workers… my dePORTation was successful!!!

I have much to reflect on at this point, but while I’m still muddling through my thoughts, let me give you some people to pray for…

Andrew
Jim and Phyllis
Peggy
Kathie
Hailey
Richard
Terri

all of these are friends who are going through different things related to their own personal journey. Please lift them up…what better gift can we give each other than laying our concerns before the throne?