Surgery Update, v000A

Okay, so it's almost been two weeks now. Today is the first day that I actually feel "normal", although my nose is still hurting, the swelling has gone down enough now that it just feels like a broken nose. I am starting to breathe normally, and getting nasal drainage, in fact you should of seen the thing I got when I blew my nose this morning... Wow! It was like the size of my thumb, the colors were really interesting, and the taste was... well nevermind.

I am still a little leery about dancing with any dips or arm up moves, but that should go away soon enough.

News Flash - Fox Appoints Self To Investigate Henhouse disappearance

So, President Bush is going to investigate gasoline price gouging. Uh huh.

Making Tall Grass Short

Don't tell my surgeon or doctor, but I cut the back lawn this afternoon. I took it easy, and had a pretty big break halfway through, but I did it just fine. I really expected my recovery to take four to six weeks, not four to six days. Right now I feel somewhere between having an average cold and a mild sinus infection. Medical science is amazing.

Maybe I'll try the front lawn tomorrow.

Oh, Does This Mean Me, Too?

Crap! I have my prayers written out on a piece of paper next to my bed. It's a kind of checklist to make sure that i consistently pray for the things I want to pray for. Straight out prayer isn't what I call a conversation with God, it's more of a mental review, probably more for my benefit, of what my philosophy is and what the direction I want to be heading in, along with a plea for God's help with it.

This doesn't mean that God won't insert the occasional comment.

Part of my prayers asks for reconciliation between God and His enemies and me and my enemies. Mostly I tend to concentrate on the big picture, and not on myself. Not today. While I was praying I decidedly heard God telling me this applied to me also, and my feelings towards the person whom I would currently call my enemy.

Arg! Our God is not one to deal in untruths. One that I like is the "I want that to apply to everyone else, not me" untruth. The Golden Rule can cut both ways.

I realize that peace is different than daily involvement or having this person as a best friend, still, I don't even know if I want that.

Surgery Update, v0009

Okay! I am doing fine... in fact much much better than I expected I would be doing. It is much more irritating than painful to have a nose full of snot and no real way to get rid of it, and I haven't even touched the good drugs in days. I was thinking of trying cut the lawn today, um, the back lawn, we'll see how that goes.