Archive for December, 2008
Surgery Update…
December 8th, 2008 | 17 Comments | Posted in » Just For Fun..., My Life / Family, Pictures
Most of you who follow “Toward the Goal” knew that I was facing some surgery today.
For those of you are interested in it was all about, I had a tumor (called a “cholesteatoma”) growing behind my left eardrum. Dr. Thedinger, a specialist from Kansas City (who is WONDERFUL, just in case you ever find yourself with this condition or other serious ear conditions) peformed a “tympanoplasty with mastoidectomy” to correct the condition this morning.
What does all this mean? Basically that I look like this right now, and that you get to have some fun with providing captions for my picture. 
Seriously… go for it, and have fun with this. I’m feeling very pretty good now that the anesthesia is wearing off, and they say laughter is the best medicine. So make me laugh! Best caption wins, well… the right to know you made me laugh the longest and hardest. Hey, surgery ain’t cheap, even with good insurance!
In all seriousness, though, I know that many of you kept me in your thoughts and prayers today, and I am GREATLY appreciative. Things went great, and, though I’ll have another surgery somewhere in the next 9-12 months to restore hearing in my left ear (the damage to middle ear bone structures was quite extensive), I’m on the road to recovery.
Funny how God works, isn’t it? He allowed me to have a ruptured eardrum so that a bigger problem could be found, identified, and corrected.
God is good… ALL the time.