Every day is a new day...

Well, it has been almost a week and a half since my wife’s heart procedure. She had a pretty intensive ablation as she has a rapid heart rate and atrial fibrillation. She had the same procedure about 3.5 years ago which was unsuccessful, but things got progressively worse and we were booked for another ablation.

She has been recovering at home, very slowly. The problem is that she suffers from additional assorted chronic issues, most of which are painful. She has lupus, so any type of intrusion into her body (surgery) causes nothing but problems. She has chronic migraines which were not helped by the copious amounts of drugs given. Although seeing rainbows could potentially be cool, they are not so cool when one is immobilized from pain due to migraine headaches. She has arthritis, which in additional to all these other things, isn’t so great when you live in a rain forest – in the winter.  She also has incredible intestinal pain, which I’m assuming is from the drugs as well she had to take.

So, all in all, the past week has been a challenge. I’ve had to take last week off of work and take care of the homestead, so to speak. My wife has been pretty much curled up in the fetal position on the couch for the past week and half… using a cane to be to get around to do the necessary things like use the ladies room.

How do we manage? Well, every day is a new day. God tells us that He will give us the strength to take one day at a time – and I’m holding him to this promise. Were it not for Him, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would be 6 feet under. were it not for His strength and grace, there is no way on God’s green earth I could do it on my own.

Well, here’s to a new day. I’ll try to keep things updated on a semi-regular basis as things progress… or regress as it may be.

Blessings,

Jim