As the title of this post says, I’m somewhat uncertain about what my life if going to be like in the future.
As to the heart surgery, I’m healing well. I’m being careful to follow the discharge instructions the hospital gave me. I’ve been seen three times by home health, once in clinic for blood draw, and once in clinic for the post-op appointment. Almost every day I sense healing happening in my body. Yesterday, after working with our daughter putting one bedroom back together following down-sizing activities, I had my first real time of pain at the incision point. A Tylenol was sufficient to help control it.
As to my stroke of 3 Sept, progress on the lingering impairments is slow. Typing has started to improve, but remains both slow and painful. Handwriting is also slow to return to normal. It takes me a long time just to sign my name to anything, and the result is barely legible. Writing anything takes much more time it ought to.
But, I’ve been able to do some light writing tasks. I began work on the next volume of my Bible study series. Not actual writing yet, but creating the book files, loading the scripture in and dividing it by chapter, and planning the subsections. I think I’m perhaps a day away from completing the preliminaries and beginning the writing.
The other writing project is the book of family letters from our years in Saudia Arabia. All that’s left is adding photographs. That involves scanning to digital, resizing, loadings into the books, then formatting the pages. As I’ve said before, the words are written. I scanned some photos previously. But the scanner is in the basement and I’m still not allowed to do stairs. Our daughter did a lot of scanning. I have at least 40 scanned photos to go through and load into the book. I will work on that some this week. About the time I finish that, I’ll be at the point using stairs again, and can complete the scanning.
So healing is happening, and writing tasks are getting done. Hopefully on Friday, I’ll be able to report increasing progress.
good to hear your coming along and feeling better
Good fir you on your progress physically and in writing. God bless and stay strong!
I am so happy you’re home and healing nicely. Follow the doctor’s orders. Take your time and do only what you can. You have such great support from your family. Sending 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 daily. So good to hear from you!! 💙💙
You are amazing. Great to hear your progress. Don’t ever get discouraged. Baby steps are better than no steps. Keep us posted. Love hearing your progress.
Happy to hear you are recovering well. Yes it does take time. You will continue to feel stronger. There will come a time when you feel that you can keep going. Please take breaks. The body takes a while to heal.
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Good to hear, David. Day by day…
Sounds like you are doing well. Thanks be to God. Continue to stay on the plan given by your medical team and you will recover. Old men like you and I are slower to heal; but eventually we still can make it.
I’m so happy you are improving. Just keep your Trust and Faith in God and he will see you through these trials.
I’m so glad you’re starting to feel better! You’ve been through so much. We’re continuing to pray for you both.