I feel like I'm moving more and more into mainstream living. I didn't realize how good it was until I did not have it. Isn't that true for many of us -- we don't know until we longer have something.
Thank you to all of you who enjoy reading these musings. I am so grateful they have been encouraging to you. I am amazed how many are following along. For me it is a way for me to document my recovery. Not being an "onlooker" but being the "player" I don't fully realize how far I've come and how monstrous the whole thing was/is. My life has focused on the day at hand and what my goal is for it. Right now I'm working on my puny muscles. As you remember I had done a lot to get up to speed before surgery but the months of being shut down zapped what I had :( Now the goal is to resurrect my quads, glutes and everything lying underneath these muscles. These are all very stiff and it still hurts to walk and get up and down from sitting. Working on them is not my favorite thing to do with my time but the outcome will be wonderful.
One interesting and happy thing has been looking ahead to what I want to do with the new me. At 64 I have goals and dreams for the future. I want to be productive in God's work and for His Kingdom. I don't know what that will look like but God does. Getting my body strong and having a new spine hopefully will give me more opportunities. I've been meditating on the verse I Cor 9:24-27 about "buffeting your body and making it my slave". Making it my slave takes work.
On the fun side -- I want to ride a bike! That might be totally off the mark living in Atlanta but I'm thinking about it. I won't be able to explore this until December. Cold time of the year to think about biking but who knows.
