February Update

WELCOME TO HOME HEALTH CARE!!!!!!! February brought with it a strange and quick set of events. I had been battling a sore finger for a month. Oral antibiotics (two 10 day rounds) were not making an impact. Saw a hand specialist and was told infection was in the bone and that I needed immediate surgery to remove the affected area and be on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks, or I could opt to have that part of the finger amputated!!!!!!!!

Needless to say was in shock. We both were. Didn't expect that. Was instructed that the antibiotics therapy had a 50/50 chance of working and still may end up in amputation. So there is was. Opted for saving the finger.

Many prayers went up, and after the surgery on Feb. 10, the doctor said that after he got in there, it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be!! PRAISE GOD!!! PICC line was placed and I began the antibiotic therapy the Friday following the surgery. That procedure was worse that having the surgery!!!

God is so good! Am on the road to healing. I believe that this is going to work - no amputation in store. This is just a small blip on the radar, and God is in control. There are things that come along in life that test our faith. I know that God works for the good of those who trust in him.

On my arm is a tattoo reminding me of just that. It is a molecular diagram of a laminin molecule: the cell adhesion molecule - the stuff that is the glue that holds our bodies together and cause it to function. It is in the perfect shape of the cross of Jesus! So in all our troubles, in all our weaknesses and temptations, in illness, in sadness and depression, there are thousands upon thousands of crosses giving us strength and holding us together. To hear and see laminin, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4zgJXPpI4
What other proof is there that we are fearfully and wonderfully made by an awesome and loving God? Colossians 1:17 All things were created by him and for him, in heaven and on the earth and under the earth; and in him all things hold together."