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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 13:14:44 GMT
I don't feel sick at all, and thankfully I am eating ok. Dan is doing a good job supporting me xxx Hope Robin starts feeling better soon xxxxx
Dave - wheelchairs and whelks , yes I will pass on both of those-I use to eat whelks but don't like looking at them now, and being pushed along in a wheelchair would be quite uncomfortable at the moment as I have alot of internal stitches in the pelvic area !!!!! Lol
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2016 7:56:57 GMT
I have been considering the issue and doubts I had about healing when I was due to go In for my op. I mean the cold did not go - and in those few days prior to Wednesday I questioned so much about my faith in Gods ability or desire to answer that prayer. It also occurred to me that not once did I pray about the prolapse itself - weird how somethings we just leave with the doctors !
It occured to me that despite all the doubts and negatives within I went ahead and prepared for the op. I did all that was needed to be done within the presumption that it would take place. So outwardly I kind of Demonstrated a belief that God would act. Yet inwardly I had little faith he would do it for me. Yet when I came round and the cold had completely gone i did not know whether it was a miracle, or whether the oxygen ect had killed the virus, or whether the first defence medication I had used had worked. ( which I felt prompted to buy and use the day before - which could have equally been Gods way of healing )
I find the whole issue of healing a bit confusing - but also the issue of my faith equally so, did I have faith or not within the equation. Whatever the case I am still amazed that I never developed a full blown cold - and very grateful to God for all that things he knitted together to enable that to happen. Maybe this is more a lesson in Gods ultimate control and his ways are not our ways !!! I am very impressed with Dan, he has been great- doesn't do things my way, but does them none the less without complaining. He still has not got his wrist sorted out completely - think he has one more visit from the district nurses then he will be discharged. on a funny note, we did not realise how much we used the bathroom mirror , and the amount of times we have just stared into the blank wood that is now there instead of the mirror believing that we will see a reflection - takes a few moments for the brain to register - both Dan and I have a chuckle to ourselves about it. We have a strange sense of humour at times ! Rita x
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Post by james on Dec 17, 2016 11:13:59 GMT
Know just what you mean Rita about the mirror. Packed the kitchen clock and still found that every day at least three times while having to stay back at the Vicarage I looked up to catch the time, and every time said clot you know it's gone. The body learns to do things which it takes a while to unlearn. Might be a spiritual truth in that somewhere?
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Post by Helen on Dec 18, 2016 15:20:32 GMT
Glad that things are healing up ...when are you due back to work? I can relate to the clock thing. We too moved our kitchen clock, after many years , to the other wall. I STILL find I look first at the old place before looking at where it is now. ha!! There is probably some deep, rich spiritual truth hidden here that we are missing , hahaha!!
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Post by Poppy on Dec 18, 2016 15:23:56 GMT
The same thing happened when Ray moved the light switch in our kitchen. It was many moons ago now but on odd occasions I still put out the wrong hand to turn on the light.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2016 4:04:54 GMT
Well the healing process is slow and the discomfort has continued, how I had forgotten the way I feel after surgery !!!!! Dan has been brilliant, and I am looking forward to spending Christmas with my oldest son, more so because there is no pressure of work. Dan will be home alone, but he is looking forward to having the place to himself. However everyone spends Christmas I do pray it will be a blessed time for everyone xxxxx Its my granddaughters birthday today, so I will be going out to help her celebrate- we are going bowling, rest assured I will not be playing !!!!!! Lol
much love xxxx Rita x
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Post by Poppy on Dec 24, 2016 10:13:52 GMT
When we're healing we need to let time do its work and try not to hurry things along. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. Snap Rita - it's my granddaughter's birthday today as well, she's nine.
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Post by james on Dec 29, 2016 10:50:07 GMT
I do so hope that Christmas was as good a time of rest and healing as you expected and much more. We have rested here and had the odd day out with the three girls, it has been fun.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 6:06:18 GMT
Hi James, Yes, I rested, and got very spoiled. We had a lot of fun as well. I ended up staying longer than I planned. I am okay, but have had a lot of problems with headaches and still experiencing problems with my teeth. It mainly where my crowns are- not sure if they got damaged in surgery, or whether it is just a reaction that is taking time to go, kind of hoping it is the latter. It's not as bad as it was, which gives me hope.
I went into town and along to work yesterday to hand my certificate in so that I can start to get statutory sick pay. Sarah came with me, did quite a bit of walking. Had to rest when I came home, but it was good to get out and go somewhere independently.
How are you feeling now James? Despite all the building being done, are you settling into life in Bulgaria ? Rita
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Post by james on Dec 31, 2016 12:36:41 GMT
Hello Rita, I feel fine now, the last thing I wanted was five days in a Bulgarian hospital having drugs feed into me every day but it did the job. I find it a bit hard to settle in since we can not unpack all our stuff and are living out of suit cases. The children find it a bit of a pressure with so little space to move around. The builders are well past the point of slow. It is driving me mad having all this room yet not able to spread out because of Bulgarian speed of working.
I keep trying to work out just what it might be teaching me but so far the lesson has not been learned.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 9:01:07 GMT
Hi James, i am not sure we actually discover what God is teaching us until he reveals it himself, it's often a surprise until the penny drops!!!! I can sympathise with how you are feeling as I would feel the same and it's frustrating when others are working at a different pace to the one you would like. Its a bit like my recovery, I get itchy fingers to do things because I want control back - yet, even as I write I am aware that there are somethings I don't want back. I read in my study time yesterday about God using certain people around us to develop new attitudes within us, to develop a more Christ like one. Like you, I am endeavouring to discover what all this is teaching me, like you I cannot grasp it yet- but I know I will, and that causes a sense of curiosity that intrigues me. I must admit that just lately I have been dealing with things that I have very little control over, but others hold the control. I think God is teaching me about bringing him into the situations in a more constructive way. For many years I use to pray for a word each year, it was something we did on the divorce recovery forum. I had forgotten about it and not done it for two years. When i was thinking about it the other day a word came to mind ' commitment ' it's an interesting word to consider, but I am pretty sure that the lessons needed right now will be linked to that word - but time will tell xxxx As long as we are learning, we are growing. It's when we think we don't need to change that we should worry !!!!!
How long do they think all the building work will take ? Rita
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Post by ivor on Jan 3, 2017 2:01:35 GMT
Our life is fleeting like a blade of grass here today gone tomorrow yet its not - our portion is eternal and after this brief pause in the flesh.... pain will be no more neither will outcry for all the former things will have passed away. Those Christians gone before us have now tasted glory that was so painfully bought on our behalf by our king Jesus. Pilgrims existing in a world without tender compassion cannot compare to what God has in store for us.
Time is quite a British thing - a friend was in Jamaica and frustratedly watched a man build a wall that would in the UK have been 6 hours yet it took this man a full week to build - however the man was very happy as he spent time with his friends who passed by and spent his evenings on the beach socialising and the wall paid his meagre rent and food bill. (yet it appeared that he had got it wrong somehow?)
Matt 6 .25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 8:38:49 GMT
Thanks Ivor, that verse keeps finding me this week - hmmm maybe I need to reflect on it xx Rita x
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Post by Helen on Jan 5, 2017 4:08:58 GMT
Many healing blessings Rita. 💖
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 8:44:04 GMT
Thanks Helen xxx I am feeling much better, headaches have gone. Still having issues with my teeth, but not all the time, which is good. I did go out for a walk with Sarah the other day and had to walk up a slight hill, this brought back the dragging pain. So I know I need to avoid certain places to walk. I do feel unfit though, I am used to being so active at work.
Have not see you or Dave on for awhile, how are you both ? Rita
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Post by Helen on Jan 7, 2017 15:38:54 GMT
Wow...this early you for sure should avoid walking up hill!! It can re-prolapse. In a few weeks you should start doing pelvic exercises to keep everything strong and healthy.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 16:31:44 GMT
I was told to do pelvic floor exercises from the first week. Yes, I will not attempt walking up hills, even small ones, for awhile - I honestly did not think it was that much of a hill. I think I read that the scar tissue take up to three months to heal properly. I am not sure how I am going to cope with being on my feet for a seven hour shift when I go back to work in three weeks- think I may have to take breaks more than I did before. Guess it will be about pacing myself. I am only doing some of my usual tasks when I return - that will be in my control. I have to go in and discuss it in a few weeks time. I was told that there is a 1 in 4 chance of it prolapsing again - not great odds !!! Rita
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Post by Helen on Jan 7, 2017 17:00:08 GMT
Do you have a recliner? Leaning back in a recliner or couch is better than sitting ( gravity) just try to get in the habit for the rest of your life ...that may save further operations . It makes us servants of our bodies rather than our bodies serving us. I find that so annoying these days. Ha!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 17:22:46 GMT
Thanks Helen, yes I do have a recliner- to be honest I use to do them on the bus ride home- well might as well use that time for something !! Lol I did wonder if the machines are any good, they send electrical pulses to the pelvic muscles- I may ask my consultant about them. Rita
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 8:26:28 GMT
Dreaded dentist appointment today- why do we get so much anxiety about these things, it's only a check up and an appointment to get advice about the problems I have had with my teeth since the op. I prayed about it, but could I sleep !!!!!! I was going to read a thriller on the bus journey yesterday, but felt challenged not to distract myself, something I am gifted with - got it off to a fine art. So changed my ereader book and clicked on to my reading plan for last year - I am way behind. Reading psalm 91' ' If you say " the Lord is my refuge " and make the most high your dwelling place, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways ' The words "say " and " and " jumped out at me - the " he will command his angels" I love it when little words jump out and make me really think about them. I love it when God reminds me that the real battle is in the unseen - I cannot see the Angels - but if and when I proclaim and declare my alligience things happen - when I speak , not think- it changes things both in my world but in the unseen arena Psalm 91:14 " Because he loves me , says the Lord. I will rescue him , I will protect him , for he acknowledges my name ......... " once again as a result of outwardly showing alligience - things happen It was good to reflect on these things yesterday x
Right now Lord, what about this dentist appointment !!!!!!!!
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