I didn't post this before, but I had some minor surgery to remove a screw from my right foot today. I knew that it was a pretty simple operation, it took about 15 minutes from freezing to leaving. I am not allowed to put my foot on the ground for 10 days to 2 weeks. That is the "coping" part of the title.
So I am getting all kinds of complications with trying to get around. I have a pulled hamstring on my left side, making it very hard to get up and down and using that side and the crutches. I can manoeuvre on the hardwood with my wheelchair, but not on the carpets in our room. I can't figure out how to get into the garden at all, because it is all grass to the veggie beds.
Plus, I'm feeling a bit of PTSD from the original surgery in 2009, which was one of the worst things I have ever been through in my life - including the screw working its way part way out (which is why I needed this surgery) and the bunion not healing for 5 months, when it was supposed to be 6 weeks.
So please pray for me to trust God, one more time in a big way, and to figure out a way to be a bit more mobile. Or, to find that elusive patience, and develop that fruit of the Holy Spirit more, and be able to live the next few weeks with eternity etched on my heart from my bed.
Thank you everyone!
PS. On a more positive note - the RA flares have subsided almost completely. I am still getting some tendoniitis in my hands, which hurts, but not as bad as losing the use of the joints. Thanks to so many here who prayed for the meds to work and for God to touch my body! He hears and answers prayers! Hallelujah!
So I am getting all kinds of complications with trying to get around. I have a pulled hamstring on my left side, making it very hard to get up and down and using that side and the crutches. I can manoeuvre on the hardwood with my wheelchair, but not on the carpets in our room. I can't figure out how to get into the garden at all, because it is all grass to the veggie beds.
Plus, I'm feeling a bit of PTSD from the original surgery in 2009, which was one of the worst things I have ever been through in my life - including the screw working its way part way out (which is why I needed this surgery) and the bunion not healing for 5 months, when it was supposed to be 6 weeks.
So please pray for me to trust God, one more time in a big way, and to figure out a way to be a bit more mobile. Or, to find that elusive patience, and develop that fruit of the Holy Spirit more, and be able to live the next few weeks with eternity etched on my heart from my bed.
Thank you everyone!
PS. On a more positive note - the RA flares have subsided almost completely. I am still getting some tendoniitis in my hands, which hurts, but not as bad as losing the use of the joints. Thanks to so many here who prayed for the meds to work and for God to touch my body! He hears and answers prayers! Hallelujah!
