Hello Brother Dave,
I'm sorry to hear that things are taking so long.
You will remain in my prayers.
I can only imagine how much pain is involved
because I've never had anything like this.
Further, I don't want anything like this.
Thanks Bro' Tom
Nobody promised, that life would be 'easy' [?]
But I am the first to praise Him for my being able
to, overcome, and, so-much [?] over the years
I have so much patience, too [in recent years]
finding that I CAN 'wait' for the Lord to make my way 'clear' for me
The discomfort perceived, in the times that my bowel herniates
is initially, as if I have taken a 'kick' to the scrotum
The pain is felt throughout the 'core' right up to the navel [?]
Standing upright is impossible and, attempting to do so
gives one, the very painful feeling of, 'something-tearing'
Sitting, and attempting to do so [to eat a meal] is a painful nightmare
Having had an inguineal hernia of the right side, repaired, already
my previous experience gives me the confidence
to cover the protruding bowel with the fingers of one hand
and pushing those fingers with the fingers of the other hand, to push it back, inside
The [courage] 'incentive', to do this [?]
is the speedy reduction of discomfort
~in under ten minutes, it can seem as if, it never happened
It is, just SO-EASY, to
get-with the program and DEAL with the burden
and so-difficult, to perceive that anyone could 'exist'
in such a 'state'
without-treatment, for months [never-mind 'years']
for it being, so inhibiting [?] and also, mentally 'distracting'
I guess,
that it is poor muscle tone in my abdominal wall that provides my susceptibility
and that this 'developed' as a side effect, of lack of exercise
during my circulatory-problems of the past
Where, "walking THROUGH the pain-barrier" enabled arterial wall growth
allowing blood to bypass the blockages
[some of which, hardened (calcified) in Femoral and Carotid arteries]
But hey-ho.... Life, came-back...
The mountains were levelled....
The valleys raised up beneath my feet...
I CAN OVERCOME, all of the things that I really NEED, TO DO \o/
Although, very-likely, much-less speedily, than when I was younger
Since July 2007, I have decorated the house [paints]
Replaced the rotten door at the side of the house [with one I made myself]
With a little help from family members, we have landscaped the rear garden
and then, I fenced it off, to keep the dogs off of it
These things, were certainly not possible to accomplish in years past
The reason for, my feeling so-blessed, each and every day I am given \o/
dave
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