Bountiful Harvests

This post was started 2 weeks before my surgery, but never got posted. I am finally getting back to update and feel that I really need to post this and then put another post on to explain why it's taken me so long to get back to this blog. Please forgive me for being so slow.

Written August 13th
"Wow! I can't believe the summer is almost over. It hardly seems possible. We have been so busy doing all kinds of things. Planting a garden, watching the corn grow, taking care of the animals (chickens, dog and cat), picking berries, green beans, okra, corn and tomatoes, putting up corn and peaches, baking peach pies, getting a root canal - ugh!, doing meetings for our senior group at church (the Seasoned Saints, as we are called), and on and on it goes. It seems like there is always something to be doing each evening as I get home from work. Isn't that the way life is? Always teeming with activity.


Well, it's about to slow down somewhat for me. Several years ago, I torn some cartilege in my knee and had to have arthroscopic surgery to get it removed. Then it happened again, and then, recently, I tore a meniscus in my other knee. Now I am scheduled to have knee replacement on the most painful knee (the right one) on August 27th. I have heard all sorts of horror stories about infections, complications, etc.; and then I have heard many great and glowing reports about how wonderful knee replacement is. I am hoping I will be one of those glowing reports. I have at times almost been unable to walk with the pain in my knees and have put the surgery off for several years. Now, my doctor has decided for me that it is time to go through with it due to the fact that the pain is starting to affect the rest of my health. In other words, it keeps me awake at night and has caused elevations in my otherwise controlled blood pressure and blood sugar levels. So we are headed in 2 weeks to the hospital to get a new knee.


I have fretted and worried. Am I doing the the right thing? Is it too soon? Am I too young to get this done now? (I don't feel too young, that's for sure!) And finally, I cried and prayed about it. And wouldn't you just know it, the Lord has given me a peace about it. Oh, yes, I'm still nervous, but it isn't like it was before. I know it is the right time to have the surgery and I have peace. The peace that can only come from the Lord. What a wonderful God we have who is concerned with our concerns!"

Now you will be waiting to hear "the rest of the story", won't you? It will be coming soon, I promise!!