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Dear PCN (of over 2600 subscribers),
A great big and heartfelt THANK YOU for all the get well and best wishes I have received from so many members of the PCN. You are encouraging, caring, and inspiring and I thank you all!
What happened: I was just bouncing along in life and doing the normal little projects here and there feeling completely healthy and normal, when I got a rude awakening. Just back from my son Mike’s home (who now is a Delta Captain), I had just finished a basketball standard and backdrop for the gkids. The next morning after I returned home, I awoke with a pain in the abdomen but it wasn’t debilitating. Then on Monday Sept 20th I awoke with a full on diverticulitus attack and soon got so diagnosed which led to starting a Cipro and Flagil protocol to clear the belly from the bad bacteria. The pills gave me some relief but I still had issues when on Sat the 25th I felt something weird (which turns out to have been a ruptured colon) and it led to the emergency colectomy surgery later that night. Heck, I couldn’t even say diverticulitus let alone spell it. But I know a lot more about it now though.
The recovery lasted 8 days in the hospital and two of those days I was
rather low. I’m a man of faith and I had
heard through my loved ones that a lot of people were praying for my
recovery. That was very comforting as I
filed that away, yet in my lowest times I found myself so focused on the
discomfort and pain that I myself never even gave a passing thought about
praying myself. Now, as I look back at
that I am both embarrassed and a bit surprised, because I pray, and do so
often, and I happen to believe in it.
But now as the pain ratcheted up my thoughts and thinking were not
clear. Finally, after hours of wrything the
thought came into my mind that I myself had not prayed. Surrounded by weakness and pain, I was as low
as I could be, and the only thoughts that kept surrounding me were “am I gonna
to be able to get through this?” I was
weak and my strength was spent, but I found enough inside of me to cry out to
the Lord, and that I did. Now, I know I
will lose a lot of you right here as this is getting really weird for many of
you, but all I can say is with that prayer something happened. Tossing and turning and finding no peace or
rest, I suddenly had some and with this moment of peace I was able to fall
asleep. The next morning was still a
little rough but by afternoon the tide had turned and I was on a good
track.
Listen, I believe fully in the gifts of skill and the wonder of technology, and I am so thankful for them. I happen to be fortunate enough to have an amazing medical team and of course am very grateful for that. But I also believe in the One who started and is over it all, and by His grace gifts so many things to mankind. And I further believe that He cares for His creation and hears our prayers. This belief comforts me in my lowest valleys and strengthens me in weakness. I share this not to preach but just to be real. I’m alive today because my number was not called. And for that I am very grateful and feel like I have life anew.
Update: 2 weeks home recovering.
Today is my 69th birthday and I must say I feel good. The surgery and recovery has been going well
and by the way, that IS a pretty good birthday present. I do
not have the endurance I thought I might at this point but I suspect that will
come back soon, God willing. Again, I
thank you for so many get well wishes and for your thoughts and prayers. If there is a redeeming value to online
networks, social media and the like it really shines when people support others
in their time of need. So a heartfelt
thanks again!!!
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