Our W looks awesome, as usual ... bathed in God's grace and the peace that truly passes all understanding. LOVE the pics with the troops.
Back from knee replacement surgery, and I SO SO SO appreciate all the prayers and good thoughts from my FRiends.
Unfortunately, it was not without complications. The evening after surgery, I suddenly felt claustrophobic, panicky and breathless. They immediately put me on oxygen, and soon thereafter a CAT scan revealed a pulmonary embolism. Damn .. that was a fear of mine, too, and one reason I was so very hesitant to stop my daily baby aspirin dose.
But, the comprehensive report from a Lancet article stating that the risk of stopping it and having a stroke, blood clot, etc. was higher than the risk of bleeding by not stopping didn't go over well with my doc. He thought it was "controversial," so I reluctantly stopped taking it 10 days prior to surgery.
To say I'm grateful to be alive would be an understatement, and just how much I know your prayers helped me. I thank God dearly for His mercy. Just last week a friend of my son's girlfriend .. a lot younger than I .. had knee replacement surgery and died in her sleep of a clot.
Will be on blood thinner for 6 months, understandably will have pain for awhile, several weeks of therapy torture and pushing myself to do those excruciating exercises .. LOL (those therapists are something else ;), and struggles getting my socks on, etc., but I'm really walking so well .. barely need the walker. My knee is really strong and stable, praise the Lord.
It's so important that this Dose remains the sane and safe harbor it's always been. Thanks to the Mods and all who work to keep it free of the nastiness and dissension so prevalent everywhere else.