I got a text from my daughter in law one day last week. It was one of those "back in time" pictures. It talked about her first day back to school and about Marty's surgery. OMG!!!!!! Has it been two years????? On September 4, 2012, our lives changed dramatically. Oh it had been progressively changing over the past six years, but this date was probably the biggest.
About a year and a half prior, Marty had an accident with hot grease while cooking. It created a blister on his heel. After two surgeries, home nursing care, horrible bone/blood infections, i.v. antibiotics at home, a few hospital stays and many trips to the wound center, the decision was made to remove his leg, 13 inches below the knee.
It has been an emotional roller coaster for both of us. It's really hard to change the entire way you live. We have had to make adjustments to our house, with the way we do certain things, and also the way we view life.
I have always been a "glass half full" kind of girl. I always want to look at the good things in a situation no matter how bad it is. I have to say there have been times through all of this that my glass was leaking..... It can be easy to let sadness and depression creep in. BUT - God has a way of patching the leaks.
People come up to me and say, "Oh you are so strong, how do you do it?" The answer I most often give..... "I don't have a choice". Things happen......hard things happen.....bad things happen. If we are determined to trust God to help us through, we truly don't have a choice but to stand strong, press forward and know that everything will be o.k.
Be blessed friends.......
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