Little blurb of an update

So the weekend turned out to be very enjoyable. Saturday night when I got home from the hospital, Heather cooked me the meal I had been craving for several days: grilled cheese and tomato soup. And an ice cream Drumstick for dessert. We watched Bend it Like Beckham, a movie I greatly enjoyed in the theater years ago and then practically forgot about until Heather suggested watching it on Saturday. Even more enjoyable the second time around. :)

Finding a comfortable, non-painful position to sleep in that night was difficult, and it took probably a good forty-five minutes. But I finally succeeded, on my side/back, putting the weight of the left side of my back on a body pillow propped up against me, my right arm extended above my head. My right shoulder has been KILLING me lately...for the past several months it's been constantly throbbing and every little once in a while I wake up in the middle of the night in crazy pain radiating from deep within my shoulder. Ever since the surgery the constant throbbing has been even more intense, and surprisingly enough the nurses suggested getting my shoulder x-rayed, as it sounds like it might be a bone issue. Weird, huh? When it rains it pours, when it comes to health issues with me and Heather. :)

I woke up the next morning a little weirded out because I was in NO pain from my surgery, though I had taken no medication the entire night! It was a wonderful blessing. I felt well enough to go to the second service of church, I was so thankful to be surrounded by believers who cared for me and to praise the God who has taken such good and tender care of me.

After church Heather and I picked up In-N-Out on the way home to enjoy with Anton & Marietjie and their girls, who were kind enough to come and visit us. They stayed for a couple of hours and right before they left we dove into my treats of Rocky Road ice cream and Drumsticks. Sweet friendship. Marietjie is always such a comfort. She mixes just the right amount of lighthearted chit-chat with more serious encouragement. God uses her a lot in my life.

When it came around to dinner time Heather was feeling worn out herself, so we decided that rather than try to deal with a potentially fussy Georgie at home or try to prepare dinner for ourselves, we would go to the Valencia Mall to walk around and work up an appetite for Chili's. While at the mall Heather made a stop at Popcornopolis where all of their popcorn, even the yummy flavored stuff, is gluten-free! She chose three different bags for herself and was then informed that with the purchase of three bags, a fourth came free. She asked me which flavor I wanted and I chose....drumroll...Rocky Road. (When did I become such a fan of that flavor?) I was about to text Brent and tell him that he needed to help me get through an ENTIRE bag of Rocky Road popcorn that I had ALL TO MYSELF, until I realized that I was a wimp because Heather had just purchased for herself THREE WHOLE BAGS to gozzle up before the popcorn goes bad. :)

The Chili's dinner was awesome. I just recently became a fan of white fish, because during the time that I believed I had gallbladder disease, one of the crazy "helpful" diets I was on required that I could eat no meat except for white fish. I never knew I liked it until I was forced to try all the yummy varieties with all the yummy ways of fixing it. Anyways, Chili's Talapia is delicious.

While we were waiting for dinner I discovered that the pain medication, the stuff that the doctor sent me home with to deal with the mystery pain that I get in my back and stomach area after food, doesn't even seem to mask the pain. Oh well. Heather said that the stuff I'm on never worked for her, either, so please pray that when I talk to the doctor today she would prescribe me stuff that does work for me.

My next appointment with the doctor is on Wednesday. Please continue to pray that the doctors would quickly figure out what is wrong with me and that there will be some sort of solution. I'm not sure of what exactly they will be looking for during the colonoscopy, but I'm praying that they find the answer as to what is wrong with me. If no answers come as a result of all these tests and such, I don't see any option but elimination diets, to see if perhaps this is just some strange food allergy. I'm not looking forward to the possibility of living with this vague and ambiguous pain, never knowing for sure what causes it. I want to pray that rather than just trust God through it, that I would actually be happy and content because of what He teaches me through it and how He draws me closer to Him through it.

But nonetheless, now is the time to still pray that God would reveal to the doctors a solution to my pain!