Yet Another Update

I seriously need to get more creative with titles... But, creative title or not, herein follows an update I just sent out to my church prayer chain.

Hello again everyone! I had another doctor's appointment on Monday so I just wanted to send another update regarding the progress my hand continues to make toward healing and recovery.

    

The doctor continues to be encouraged and impressed by the progress my hand has made and continues to make with the therapy. Indeed, this time he called me the "poster child of hand injuries." One of the nurses came in to see my hand (she has been there from the start and saw the worst of it) and was amazed (I haven't seen her the last couple visits). She said that she has seen people with lesser injuries than mine never regain the level of use that I have at this point.

   

The bad news is that the doctor says I must continue to go to therapy 2x per week. He wants the progress to continue and not to stop or regress. As much as possible I will continue to keep my therapy days on Tuesday & Friday; so if you ever need anything from Twin let me know. I love running errands for people: it breaks up the monotony of my day

We still have not scheduled my next therapy. The doctor says we are still waiting for my hand to "settle in". We will continue to keep on eye on the finger with the damaged tendon (a couple of weeks ago the therapists had to make a splint to keep the joint from "drooping" - the good news is, that splint is just for support; it does not hurt).

     

Again I thank you for all of your prayers, concern, and support! Please do continue to pray for strength, endurance, consistency, and safety as I travel. This whole process is really starting to get old (I really want to have done), it gets harder and harder to do the exercises I am supposed to do every day (there are so many other things to do), sleeping is often difficult (painful finger-splint), and Twin is far away.

  

In case you are wondering, for the most part I have no pain in my fingers *:) happy Except at night when I am wearing my finger-splint. And right before Christmas during the day or two leading up to that really big storm. And at physical therapy.

    

God is always good and God is always up to something good (even when I don't know what that is). I rejoice in what He has done and continues to do

And with that I shall draw this to a close - it is getting late. My next doctor visit is 6 weeks from now so unless something drastic or major happens between now and then, I shall send another update 6 weeks hence.