Slow Healing

It has been four weeks since I went to the hospital, and almost three weeks since my last surgery. I have been very impatient with the healing process this time around. Have you ever hurt your abdominal muscles putting your hair up? It stinks! Especially when you are trying to be able to do demos for Hair Accessories.

Someone asked me what I expected the recovery time to be, and I realized I don't know. The last time I had four consecutive surgeries was when I was an infant. Last night, I started having nightmares of another malfunction. I dreamed that they had to take the whole thing out, shave my whole head, & put a valve on the other side. I'm praying that this one heals and works just fine for decades to come. Currently, the only pain is abdominal. 

The kids came home from Nonna and Papa's house on Friday. I have Nonna and Papa's help today and tomorrow. I'm praying that after that, I am able to handle them, & that they are helpful instead of causing things to be more difficult. I am using this to teach my children that God uses all things, the good and the "bad" to work together for good. When anxiety about it wells up, all I have to do is take it to Him.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28 ESV

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV

casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV