My arms and chest are tremendously sore, but I can do a short note.
THANK YOU --all of you, for the encouragement and prayers. They certainly DO help!
So far, everything is going according to my plan. I am not at all hungry, of course, since I passed the early 'hunger stage' while under the influence of morphine and oxycontin.
I'm cutting down the dosage beginning tonight, and feel pretty good about it. The only thing that is unsettling is that I have that 'kinda sick fasting feeling' that makes me a little shakey and achey ON TOP of the pain. But it's all ok! I had an apple and some crackers as I took my pain meds tonight. That was enough....I just wanted to protect my fasting body from the unpredictable effects such strong meds could have.
No meds, then no food. I'll balance on that action for a little while. If I need meds, I get to eat an organic apple and a few no salt saltines or something similar.
What was very amazing to me was that even in my groggy and hurting body, I was somehow able to 'chat' with a nurse who came in my room at about 2am. She was rather discouraged in her Christian walk. She told me I had encouraged her greatly, and gave me a hug when I was discharged. I was somehow able to talk to her using mostly God's Words. You'd think, since I am so spacy, that I'd have trouble remembering ANY Scripture, but the opposite was true. She sat on the end of my bed and God's Words of encouragement just flowed out of my mouth. I amazed myself. It really IS all of God!! I could not have done that all by myself, for sure!
And how did she know I was a believer in the first place? I never told her, yet she knew to come and sit on my bed. I didn't bring my Bible, nor had I requested a chaplain, yet somehow she sought me out?
Being able to encourage someone while being so weak was a joyful reminder that God will work through us no matter HOW weak we are...in fact, He can work so much more freely when we are weak!
That's a nice truth to meditate upon, isn't it? I can be weak when I am abiding in Him, and HE does the work through me.
I'll write more later, but did want those who are praying for me and walking beside me to know I'm home and all is well.
BIG hugs all 'round!