I've been thinking ahead to September 13 for the last several weeks. This is the one-year anniversary of Chad's total knee blow-out. And I thought about it even more yesterday when I watched a player on the other football team Chad's guys were playing likely blow out his knee, too. [cringe]
In retrospect, much of that experience was awful: it was a test of patience, expensive and led to a lot of unplanned finagling and rearranging of our life. The half-hour I spent trying to get a woozy Chad into our house and up the stairs when we came home from the hospital after his surgery was definitely a low point. But at the time, it certainly didn't seem tragic.
The whole "knee" incident was another example to me of how sometimes you just have to put your life on autopilot and take things one step at a time - sometimes literally. I actually think back on that lesson a lot when I'm feeling like something is just too overwhelming or unfair or frustrating. You deal with it, you learn from it, and you get past it. And one year later, thankfully, Chad's knee is as good as it's ever been. Well, almost.
And this year, our Sept. 13 was much better. Why? Because the doctor's office called this afternoon and my glucose tests came back normal. That experience was a social experiment like no other, by the way. And I'm glad it's over. (I will take you up on that cake now, Robert!)
3 comments:
Yeah for your attitude, yeah for Chad, and yeah for life! The key to happiness is something I learned a long time ago, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" Enough said.
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I think you got it! We all like the good times but we learn more from the hard times. Like you have discovered, that helps us to deal w/ other future troubles in life. We do look back on those hard times and are stronger in the next one. That's exactly what the Bible teaches us to do. We do need the good and the bad. It's just hard to see it at the time. It's all how we chose to take it. Be bitter or with God's help, accept and learn from hard times. Hard times are what shapes us into who we are. For good or bad. Your choice.
Yay! So glad your sugar test was normal!! And thank goodness for all the lessons learned in a year. :)
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