Well...

Sorry for not bloging much this week, it has been an out week for me.

I got my stitches out Monday. I think I only had sixteen stitches, not eighteen. So sorry for the confusion, but I only see sixteen wholes (or spots where a stitch was) from the stitches.

My family got to my Grandparents late last night, but I think we were all glad enough to make it there that nwe did not care about the late part. See, we had some car trouble, and it will not be an easy thing to fix. We lost drive and had to go into second at 35 mph. So what would have been an hour and a half left to go at 75mph, truned into about three. With a seven year old little sister it could have been very bad with all the, "are we there yet"'s, but she did pretty good. However, we did make it in time for dinner.

Jennifer and I got kicked out of bed this morning by little kids, but it did not work. Part of it not working could have been they were told not to jump on the bed with me in it (so i got out of being jumped on because of my arm :D). Finally, they sent Joanie who told us the dogs knew they had something, the kids have already tried to get us, and the adults wanted us to get up. For the last reson, we got up.

Other than opening presents and watching some DVD's people got, we did very little because several people are sick. So I may post more later, but for now I want to go to bed.

Note: the computer will not let me use spell check. So if anything is spelled wrong I am sorry.

John 21

20 Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them;
the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, "Lord, who
is the one who betrays You?"
21 So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, "Lord, and what about this man?"
22 Jesus said to him, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that
to you? You follow Me!"

This stood out to me the other night as I was reading, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!" So what about him? You just need to follow Me! The other guy is not to pull you down by what happens to him, you follow Me. Maybe he will be never changed, you just follow Me. He may go out and keep betraying Me, but you just keep your eyes on Me. Don’t let them block your vision or get in your way of seeing Me, you need to follow Me.

Matthew 10

18"and you will even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a
testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
19"But when they hand you over, do
not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that
hour what you are to say.
20"For it is not you who speak, but it is the
Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Said by Jesus

These verses always stick out to me when I read them. Not because I am afraid I will be "brought before governors and kings" any time soon, but because I am always wanting to plan ahead for what I will say when I am talking to people. I have been afraid of talking for years, and it has held me back from saying a lot of things (not always a bad thing I am sure, but not good either). I feared what people would think of me, or what they would say in return. Maybe I feared other things too.

When I say, "I feared, " that does not mean I have gotten over this fear. It is still something I struggle with a lot. These verses comfort me because if there is a time where what I say is for some reason important, God will make sure I have the right words. No need to plan ahead, but just to trust in God for what I will say and listen to Him for it.

Meatloaf

note: if you have any friends out there with only one arm to use when eating, and it is their left hand and they are not left-handed, don’t give them meatloaf.

Sorry for neglecting my blog of late. I don’t really have much of an excuse, so I won’t give you one.

I have now been to physical therapy twice, and have gotten my first cast off (I will not be telling you the story of getting it off. You can know that it hurt, and ask me more if you want to know). I now have a rap over my arm to keep the incision and eighteen stitches clean (last time I had surgery, I had one long stitch that went in and out of my arm a couple times). Yeah, that is a nice large number of the nasty little things.

I have finally gotten to the point that I can read faster (not as fast as normal yet), and might be reading peoples blog once more. I started reading one of the Chronicles of Narnia this week, Prince Caspian. It has been really good so far. The Chronicles of Narnia are cool books.

Cool quote

My grandfather told me, that every small pain strengthens us and helps us endure our greater pains in life, ~ a line from the movie A Friendship in Vienna

Not as much fun this time

It snowed a lot again yesterday, and we had to drive in almost white out conditions to get to the hospital. While we were on our way we heard the weather report, they were saying who all got snow and how much. Not far from where the high-school is, they got a foot. "And there are no schools closed yet, but we will keep you up to date." I found that funny. If this was Texas all the schools would close if they got just a few inches or even an inch.

Well it turned out that we got to the hospital before most of the nurses and the doctor. So they nicely waited to put in my iv until they knew the doctor was on his way. Although once they knew he was going to make, the poking begin. The first time they stuck the needle in one place, and played around for a while. I so wanted to yell, "just take it out!" Then they got a different nurses to try getting it in. It took her a little while to get it in, but she got it in. I did not have to wait to much longer before the doctor came.
As they were pushing me back to the surgery room, they put the first drug in my iv. Then I got to hear a funny story because I had one of the same nurses that I had for the last surgery on my arm. She said that last time I started to giggle and laugh when they put the drugs in (i did not laugh this time as they put the drugs in). So I guess I like it on sugar mountain.

I now have a cast that I cannot move my elbow or wrist in. However, I think I get it off Monday.

Oh, here something interesting that the doctor found out when the surgery started, I had a nerve in a different spot than I should have. It is not bad to have it there, but it makes the surgery longer. He had done the same surgery on other people who had their nerves like I do, so it was not something new to the doctor.

Anyway, I am not feeling to bad, and I have not forgotten to take any pain killer (but mind you it still hurts). Hopefully I will not forget to take any of my pills.

If this does make sense, I am on heavy pain killers and cannot think straight.

Headless candles?

I had a little penguin Christmas candle, and it made me wonder why they make candles like that. It is freaky when you burn them. They become headless! Then they are not so nice to have because they look really wrong after that. It is a good thing it burned fast, and was not sitting there headless for long. It was bothering me as it did with how wrong it looked. It got burned as I wrote in my journal and only once more after that (see even saying that sounds wrong, "I burned the little penguin as I wrote in my journal"!).

I like to write in my journal late at night by candle light. It is less distracting without all of my room lit up, and then it takes me less time to write (however, the penguin candle was rather distracting).

I don’t know

Well my surgery got canceled for this week (so I am not on drugs right now), it will be next Thursday instead. Yesterday I was glad not to be having surgery, so it is okay (I am not really sure when I would be very happy about being on drugs, in pain, cut open and sow back together).

Well not much is going on here, so I don’t really have anything I can post about. Not wanting to bore you with my boredom, this post must end.

Matthew

I have been reading in Matthew this week, and there is a lot of referring back to the prophecies about Jesus from the old testament. It is interesting to see where they are and read them from the old statement as well (but I am not doing that every time one comes up). I like to see how they match up. Also, reading what Jesus was teaching His disciples has been good. You can better see more of how He really wants us to be, and how He wants us to give it all for Him. Not just parts, or after we are done doing something else. He wants to get close to us now. His care for people really stands out in my mind as well.

Anyway, sorry if that did not flow at all. I am getting tired, and my brain is leaving me.