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Tag Archives: Hip Replacement
My Weeding Project This Morning – It Took Me at Least 30 Minutes – Steve Is Back to Work Like He Never Had a Hip Replacement Operation – He Worries Me – Cactus Removal Project to Come – I Say Make Cactus Salad with an Ax – Put it in the Garbage Disposal – Steve Says It Won’t Work –
Imagine this cactus with creepy-crawly weeds embedded all around it. I scraped them into a brown and green substance using my garden tool shaped like Captain Hook’s claw. With my gloved hand I picked out the green pieces. The same repulsive weeds ran through the stones surrounding … Continue reading
Hubby Steve Dealing with Healing Period – New Hip Doing Fine – Steve Managing Process of New Hip Settling In Place – Walking – Shopping – Beginning Some Allowable Work – Cover Comes Off the Pool Table Today –
Oh my! I left my computer to snap a photo of Steve holding the dust mop and walking across the game room with it, but here is what I found! Steve says he is doing allowable work because he has not … Continue reading
By His Stripes We Are Healed – We Believe Your Word and Embrace Your Promises – LORD – By Your Stripes My Husband Is Healed – Each Day His Healing Advances and His Wounds Disappear – Thank You – Jesus – For Your Faithfulness – Amen – We Rebuke Any Indication to the Contrary – Your Word Is Truth – So Be It –
Isaiah 53:4-5 King James Version (KJV) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the … Continue reading
Husband Home to Recuperate from Surgery – Many Adjustments Ahead – We Learn Rules for Walking, Sitting, Standing, Stretching, and Certain Moves NOT to Make and Exercises to Aid Healing – Dealing with New Challenges – Life Will Not Be the Same – In the End – No More Pain – Much to Gain –
Carol Ann will be driving for quite some time. Uh… Steve has edema in his thigh from surgery. He says the skin on his thigh feels like it might split open from the strain, but we looked at images of edema … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Challenges, Dealing with Challenges, edema, Every desire of your heart, God is good, Healing, Hip Replacement, Life is good, Moves Not to Make, Recuperate, Rules, sitting, Standing, Surgery, Walking
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Stopping to Pass the News – Steve Has a New Hip – His Doctor Said the Old One Was Really Bad – In Fact – It Was Frozen – The Surgery Lasted an Hour More than Expected – Hope to Have Steve Back Home Tomorrow –
Steve is doing fine with his new hip. Nevertheless, the first thing he said after surgery were these words: “Remember when I told you this operation couldn’t hurt any more than my hip was hurting all these months. I lied!” I think … Continue reading
Celebrating Doctors – Nurses – and Medical Technicians – Today – Blessings to Doctors and All Their Assistants for Their Sacrificial Lifestyle and Devotion to Their Profession and Their Patients –
Tomorrow at 7:00 am my husband will undergo surgery. We are thankful for the skilled hands of a good physician and his staff. We expect God’s blessing and a full recovery for Steve. Thank you to all who have agreed in … Continue reading
Trip to the Surgeon to Learn about Hip Replacement – Enlightening – Interesting – Scary to Me – What Isn’t Scary to Me – Steve Is Expecting to Get Back to Normal Soon – What Does He Call Normal – Back to the Golf Course –
I am encouraged after our trip to the doctor to talk about the ensuing hip replacement, which isn’t far off. The appointed day is Tuesday, August 19, 2014. Steve expects this operation to enable him to get back to normal. … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Memoir, Thought
Tagged Back to Normal, Believers, Christians, Emergency Room, Faith, God, Golfing, Heal the Sick, Healing, Hip Replacement, Jesus, Normal, Paramedic, What Men are Like, Wild and Wooly
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Steve, My Miracle Husband, Scheduled for Hip Replacement Surgery – But I Want God to Heal His Hip – But – If Not – I Praise God for Doctors – If You Are a Praying Person – Please Pray for My Hubby – He Needs a Flesh and Bone Hip – Says His Wife – And She Can Have What She Says – Mark 11:23-24 –
Steve and I like the song sung by the late Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter, entitled Jackson. It says, “We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout.” The rest of the song tells how they’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Bible Verses, Memoir, Thought
Tagged bending, Carol Ann Hoel, Flesh and bone, Flooring project, hard work, Hip Replacement, Hotter than a pepper sprout, Jackson, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Lifting, Pulling, pushing, stooping, Surgery
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