It went well.....

 It all happened so quick.  I got there; 5 minutes later I was called up to review my paperwork and sign a few more. 5 minutes later another person took me to a room where there put about 6 (no, I am not making that number up!) different kinds of drops into my eye, explaining what each one was to do.  About 5 minutes later, the doctor came out and got me and took me into another room where he did a couple of drops into the eye and had me go to a machine where he snapped lots of visuals of my eye.  Then he said in 30 minutes they'd be back to check my blood pressure to see if it spiked due to all the different drops - only 5 minutes later the nurse came out and got me!  Laying on the bed, she hooked me up to oxygen in the nose, a blood pressure cup on the right arm, a oximeter on a finger, and an IV in the left arm.  Ooops, she 'blew out' a vein in my hand so put the IV in my wrist.  The anesthesiologist was very nice, came over and said he was going to put something in my IV and I would feel warm and fuzzy.... and the next thing I knew, I was waking up and being told I was ready to leave.  My eye is patched and the nurse helped me to the car.  

After waking up though, knowing I had to be thirsty, I was offered soda or water.  For an unknown reason, I opted for the soda and you know what - it tasted so good to this parched throat!  Only one sip of water for my pill yesterday morning had left me pretty dry!  And no food since dinner had left me hungry.  We stopped on the way home to pick up food and headed home to eat - after which I laid down and slept for almost three hours - I'm talking a deep, deep sleep.  Guess it was the anesthesia wearing off?  Or the 'excitement' of the morning was done?  Of course hubby was asleep in his chair when I woke up.  All in all, I am sitting here with a patch still over my eye.

As you know, sometimes the corner of our eye will itch when it has some sleep in it... I'm talking about the outside corner of the eye... well, of course it is the one with the patch on it that I can't rub out... but it sure is itching this morning!  I go back to the doctor this morning for a follow-up and I think he removes the patch and leaves it off.  I will get this 'cup' to put over my eye at night for the next week, plus I remember he told me to put these drops in my eye four times a day for four days.  After today, I go back in one month.  I know I won't see perfectly. I know I will still wear my glasses.  I'm just hoping to see a bit more clearly.  Then will think about the left one.  Especially since I know now what to expect, and it isn't as bad as I imagined it would be.  My eye has not hurt at all.  I was told the numbness would wear off in about six hours and since it is long past that, I am believing it will be ok. 

I didn't do much reading this morning as it is difficult to read with one eye - although do-able.  So I' have spent a lot of time praying and doing some 'shut-eye'.... I slept deep last night, which was surprising with the deep sleep I had in the afternoon.  But, it is soon time for me to get up and get my work computer turned on and clear messages.  With one boss on PTO and the other who has given me permission to take whatever time I need to rest today, I will clear my messages and keep up on them, but any 'real' work I can take it easy on.  Last time I checked I had 60 messages; but most aren't for me.

Psalm 23:1-3 (NKJV):  "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake."

It is in this time of healing, He causes me to lie down in green pastures.  He leads me beside the still waters.  He restores my soul.  May you know that Peace that comes from Him alone.

Blessings!

and the day after that....

 and the surgery site area is starting to come alive.  It's tingling, and I'm hoping it isn't a sign of pain going to be happening as the day goes by.  I found it odd that the surgical site hasn't hurt at all - but maybe that's why they said the 3rd day is the worst?  But I think that is if you get the implant.  I don't know - but guess I will before the day is out!  Right now it is just tingling (and itching on the outside of my jaw).  My headache finally went away towards evening, and my throat got much better as well.  I wonder if the headache was from the weather - you know how I get the sinus headaches when a storm is coming - and we had a couple downpours yesterday afternoon.  It started clearing up after that.  Could be - and nothing to do with the surgery.  It was bad, though.  And I did lay down for a little while.  But, sure enough, the very moment I went into the front room to sit down on the couch to crochet - hubby comes in and plops down in his recliner - and neither of us left the spots the rest of the evening.  In spite of my bad headache, he did turn the news on.... but I told him to keep it low - and NO, I do not want to watch a movie!!   We both went to bed earlier than usual - me because I was tired (of what I have no idea) and him because he was bored with not watching TV.   He had leftover pizza for dinner (yes, he even heated it up himself) and I had another pudding.   I really believe he was stalling, expecting me to get up and fix dinner for him.... finally I told him there was leftover pizza in the refrigerator, so he jumped up to heat it up.  sigh.  

Today I am doing much better without the headache and intense sore throat  so I told hubby I was going to Needles of Hope this morning.  He seemed real surprised.  I just need to get out of here and be with other people.  Sometimes the 24x7 gets to me and if I don't escape for a little while, I can get crazy.   It will be fun to hang out with the women for a bit.  I can probably guess he was going to offer to take me to breakfast since I've had nothing but pudding the past two days.  

We are in the Lenten season, the 40 days before Jesus went to the cross for us.  I usually give up something but this year I wasn't quite on track with it and it was here before I had time to think about it.  I don't take it lightly when I choose to give up some things.  In fact, the devil made sure I ate everything before I thought about it - I had chocolate; and on my pizza I had just about everything that evening.  So it's like - well, I've eaten it all - what's left?  So I'm not fasting this lenten season.  And that's ok.  My mind wasn't focused on the reason I was doing it - and doing it just because it is the time of year many people do it, is no reason.  In fact, and I know it is because hubby forgot, when I asked hubby if he was going to give up anything - he went on a rampage how it is a Catholic thing (have I written about this before?) and no, he wasn't.  I let it go... we pretty much HAVE given up something during the lenten season for the past several years.  It only means something if your heart and mind is in the right place.  My mind wasn't there and his heart wasn't there - so guess we aren't doing it this year.

But I am reading my book "Journey to the Cross" which is a reading for Lent.  It is very good, and asks some great questions and gives great insight.  

Luke 9:23-25 (NKJV)  Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.  For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?"

What do we hold on to in this world that we put before Jesus?  For some of us, it can be people, or material possessions, or opinions of others, or - well, I reckon it could be anything that we put before Jesus.  And that is where we fail.  If we choose these things over Jesus, then we may gain the world, but lose our souls.  

Now that doesn't mean that if we have nice things that we put them before Jesus.  What it does mean is that if we choose to work to get those things instead of going to church, or if we collect those things that we enjoy, and spend more time dusting them off than we do reading His Word, yeah, we could say we are putting those things before Jesus.  There are other ways, of course, but I was just giving you a couple examples.

I know the one hard thing for us has been getting physically back into church.  We did go the other week, and I am thinking we may go again tomorrow - depends on my jaw and my head.  We DO, however, watch at least one - and sometimes two - church services on TV (and participate in singing) even if we don't go physically.  I miss being with people though, and although we don't know but one or two at the new place, we won't know anyone if we don't go.  

The next two Sundays we will be speaking at the RV parks so that puts us out for a couple weeks.  After that we are done for the season.  I still need to get my message put together - they will be calling me next Sunday for the title and scripture - which means I really ought to work on it today!  At least get that much of it done!  

But going back to the scripture above.... what do you deny yourself?  What do you have that you really don't need but you 'just had to have it'?  I can see a lot of things around me!  I know of things I have bought "because I wanted it and I can use it" and it is still in the box.  sigh.  I'm thinking I need to give up Amazon Smile. :-)

LOL and you know what - I can! (probably won't, but I can)... I just looked at one of my cards in the box and it says on one side, "God's most precious work of art is the warmth and love of a woman'e heart".  True that.  But on the other side...."God will meet all your needs according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus."  Philippians 4:19.  

So I don't need to worry about what I have - or don't have.  God will meet all my NEEDS (not necessarily all my WANTS), according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus.  Our Heavenly Father owns the cattle on a thousand hills - He can provide all that we need.  Hallelujah!

Have an amazing day!

Blessings!