Daily Archives: June 17, 2023

 

Let me start by thanking all of you that have called written, texted and emailed to ask about how I’ve been doing!  The short answer is “Every day in every way I’m getting better and better”  (Quote from the Pink Panther movie!)  There have been challenge along the way but I’m healing up and feeling better all the time.  For anyone that wonders if prayer really works, I’m living proof of it!

 

For the last couple of weeks I’ve had a wound pump on to help heal up my largest incision and I think it is making enough progress that within a week I will be free of that!  Will be nice to not have to carry around a 5 pound pump and battery back everywhere.

 

Let me share some of the great things that have come out of this experience.

 

1.  More closeness and a greater appreciation for my bride, Sherelene.  She has given so much time and effort to help me recover while juggling a 12 hour a day job!  Her moral support and love have been my life line to hoping to get back to a normal life!

    2.    The support and prayers of so many friends and family members has made         all the difference!  I can never repay all of you!

 

3.   A wonderful new friendship with my Doctor,  Tony Rogers.  When I met my surgeon to review the procedure I was about to have, something incredible happened.  It turns out he had attended a meeting of the Lexington Camera Club on an evening that I was the guest speaker.  He had a great interest in photography and really enjoyed my talk, he remembered me and we struck up an immediate friendship over photography,  and as we got to know each other we found we had a number of similar interest, not the least of which was our total dedication to our savior Jesus Christ.  Getting to know Tony and his wife Donna has been a high point of May and June!

       4.   Learning to walk one day at a time, trusting in Him and knowing He, (My Heavenly Father), has it!  I’ve often been called a Comfort Junkie by my wife, and she is right, I don’t like discomfort of which I’ve had plenty over the past 6 weeks!  But through it all God has helped me take it one minute at a time stretching into hours, days and now weeks.  We can endure all things though Him who loves us! 

 

    5.    How much I miss going out with a camera and shooting!  I hope to be back at that soon and will have a new appreciation for my craft and the exercise of just seeing again!

 

I hope to get back busy posting something that has nothing to do with health concerns soon!  Till then, thanks again for hanging in there with me!

 

Blessings,

 

 

the pilgrim