Pray For My Momma!

I have just a quick prayer request that I would like to ask of those that read this blog.

(By the way, I have no idea who reads this. If you do read this, please leave a comment or send me an e-mail sometime! If you don't have my e-mail address let me know.)

I'll try to keep this short. As some of you may know, my Mom has had a terrible time with her leg. She broke it back in January in the mountains while her and Dad were trying to get away for the weekend. She had a really bad time with the healing process and with her incision closing up. She had to go to the wound clinic to get some help with the healing process. After many, many months, the incision healed, but she still had the bone itself trying to fuse back together and she has been doing physical therapy. She has also been unable to work most of this time. Last week she went to the doctor and found out that she had a staph infection in her leg so the doctor decided he needed to do surgery to remove the metal hardware that was keeping her bones together and clean out the infection with something similar to a pressure washer. The bones appeared to have fused back together nicely so he didn't reinstall new hardware in her leg, but she does have a pretty new incision about 4" long to go with the rest of her incisions. I just ask that you pray for her leg to heal quickly this time and without any bumps in the road. I know she would appreciate your prayers and so would I!

Mom, hang in there! Hopefully, this time will be the trick! Love you!

Torn Medial Meniscus

So, I have a torn medial meniscus! I actually found out that I had it 2 years ago when I had an MRI. The doc then said we should not do anything to it to see if it might heal on it's own. All seemed to be well, but about 2 months ago my knee started to hurt again after playing basketball. Went to the doc about a week ago and had another MRI. It showed that the tear had actually more than doubled in size and he recommended that I undergo surgery. He'll actually just go in (arthroscopically) and remove the part that is torn. He said I'd be out anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks (he was hoping for 2 weeks b/c I am in fairly good shape). I'll also undergo therapy for a few weeks (physical therapy that is). I'm shooting to be back at work within two weeks (if not after the first week). I will update you more as the time nears and give you post-op updates. Surgery is April 15th. It seems like a fairly easy surgery and I'm sure everything will go just fine, but any prayers are appreciated! I'm sure Ryan will be praying for my surgery b/c he prays for everyone's surgeries .... even if they didn't have one! It just seems fitting though, in the past year or so:

My mom had a knee replacement.

My mother-in-law had a knee replacement.

My dad had a knee replacement.

My wife had some female surgery.

My mom fell and broke her leg (the same leg she had her knee replacement on).

My brother had shoulder surgery.

A friend of ours (JF) had surgery.

And now my knee surgery.

Even though a few of these surgeries took place a little over a year ago, Ryan still prays for them every night. If he prays for me half as much as he has prayed for the others, I should be alright!

Long Time No Hear From

So, I was hoping to post again before now, but things have been a little crazy this week. Megan had to have surgery this week (I won't post the details) and has been trying to recover from that. I have been trying to do my best to take care of her and to tend to the boys. I'm not quite sure how I'm doing. I will say that taking care of Megan has been easier than taking care of the boys. They have been in rare form this week. Anyway, Megan is doing really well considering what she went through. Other than having cabin fever, she is in really good spirits!

Also, my parents went away for the weekend to a cabin in Black Mountain to get a little R & R. I was glad to see them get away and finally go somewhere just the two of them without any grandkids. They love to be with their grandkids, but they needed some time alone, too. Well, to make a long story short, I got a call late yesterday afternoon that my mom had fallen down the steps at the cabin and broke her leg. So much for the R & R. So, they came home late last night and I met them at the house and helped to get her inside. I just spoke to my Dad and he said that she did not sleep well from being in pain and from not being able to get comfortable. She will undergo surgery on Wednesday of this week.

So, the two most important women in my life are down and out right now.





If you will, please pray for them both as they are recovering and pray for the men in their lives (me and my Dad) as we try to take care of them!