Five Months Now!!!
It has been more than 5 months after my surgery. Things are getting better. I’m now back on normal diet - just that I try to abstain from meat. But still sometimes I have difficulty swallowing certain kind of food - especially if they are fibrous or too chunky. Anyway, I have learned how to slowly chew my food, and even when it gets stuck - I’ve found a way to slowly swallow it in. - haha!!! And the good news is that I can manage spicy food again. After the radiation from my radiotherapy last year, I could hardly eat any spicy food at all, it will really burn my mouth - not even food with pepper in it. And now I can once again enjoy curry and sambal. My food palate is much much better compared with the time after my radiation treatment and even before my surgery in the beginning of this year. In fact its back to normal - except for the swallowing part.
I still do cough out mucus but not that much now and have also learned how to control it. Found a way to flush out the mucus - I would wash the edge around the stomo with cotton wool soaked with saline and at the same time while cleaning it, I let the saline drib into the stoma. And in a little while I would start coughing out the mucus and cleared the air passage. (When I say I cough, it means I cough out from the stoma - the hole in my neck, not from my mouth!) My breathing now is back to normal, except that I’m breathing through my stoma.
God will make all things beautiful again in His time. God makes everything happen at the right time. Yet none of us can ever fully understand all he has done, and he puts questions in our minds about the past and the future. I know the best thing we can do is to always enjoy life. If you have faith in God, you already have eternal life and a life to it’s fullest. Trust the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight all your paths.
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:16 pm
I heard about this song by Planetshakers - Healer and how Pr. Mike going thru. That reminded me about you. HE is your HEALER! I believe with you that you’ll see another Great Miracle in your life.
Love you bro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsRpnTNZuC8
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
The fact that I’m still alive is a living miracle. Everyday I wake to a brand new day is a miracle. Miracle is all around us - it’s only a matter of you recognizing it.
“The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.” (Arnold Bennet)