Sunday, December 11, 2005
SNOW-SNOW-SNOW (AND OTHER STUFF)
We had 8 inches of the white stuff last Thursday. At 1:30 that afternoon when I went into a funeral home—nothing. When I came out at 2:30 my car was covered. It took 50 minutes to get from Brownsburg to the office to pick up Karon. She was ready and at 3:30 we started for home—4 miles away. We arrived at home at 4:30—ONE HOUR LATER! It was a mess. Some people with whom we work didn’t get home until 10:30 that night!
I had arranged for someone to come with a vehicle and blade and scoop out my driveway but that didn’t happen until Saturday morning! But we made it out Friday morning about 10 o’clock and got back in the garage that night.
Last Tuesday Karon and I went to the orthopedic surgeon. The X-rays showed the rod that had been put in the hip and leg is now broken at the top. That means the rod has to come out and so do the other parts of the hip. Due to the cancer and the radiation treatment there has been no healing of the broken hip, and there won’t be either. So the doctor said it all needs to come out and some kind of hardware put in. It will just get worse and she won’t be able to get around at all. He said that in 6 months or so she should be getting around as well as she is now. But she will always need a walker, or some other means, to get around.
They can’t do surgery as long as Karon is on chemotherapy. She has to be off chemo treatment for 3 or 4 weeks at least. The greatest risk with this surgery is infection. Karon is scheduled for her next chemo treatment next Monday, the 19th. We’ll see the doctor that day and see what he says about the chemo and the necessary hip surgery. Karon has made it clear that she’s not having any surgery until after the first of the year! (Which she wouldn’t anyway because she has to be off chemo longer than that.)
Karon says the thing she dreads the most about having the surgery is being dependent on people again—not being able to do for herself. A year and a half ago everyone was so helpful with meals, house cleaning, yard work, etc. We had several “angels” who would come in the mornings and help Karon get up, get dressed and get breakfast. Then they would help her with her therapy. This allowed me to continue working. And there are people who helped me with many things also during that time.
The doctor said she’ll have a six to 8-week recovery period, which includes rehabilitation therapy. She would probably be in the hospital 3 or 4 days and we don’t know how long she’ll be in the Rehab hospital before she can come home.
Undoubtedly there are those who would help us again. But I understand Karon’s feeling. It is hard to accept help with things you feel are your responsibility, things you should be doing for yourself and your spouse. But I try to tell Karon there are times we need to accept the help of others. And others need the opportunity to minister to us as well. But that doesn’t make accepting the help any easier.
It gets tough to juggle working full time, working with the church and then giving proper assistance to you spouse. But we did it before and we can do it again with God’s help. He has promised never to leave us or forsake us. We just have to be sure not to forsake Him. That will be a critical time for our church. If all goes as planned, we’ll be entering into a Capital Stewardship Campaign for our building addition and then beginning the construction of the building addition. Oh well, God knows all things and He is in control.
Thanks for your “listening ear” (or “reading eyes”!).
Jim
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Yes, my friend, He is in control. I'm sorry that y'all are having to go through this.
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