Thanksgiving Eve
Nov. 21st, 2007 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayOn the eve of Thanksgiving, 2007, I've spent most of the day in a hospital emergency room in what can only be described as excruciating pain. The diagnosis, confirmed by MRI, is that a kidney stone is presently making its way through the ureter, a structure intended for highly-filtered liquid, not jagged chunks of calcified waste.
Unfortunately, as sometimes happens, the MRI brought other news as well, the course and consequences of which remain to be seen. That part of it will be discussed in a follow-up with my general practitioner on Friday.
But for now, I feel so blessed by the 4 1/2 years that I've had with my little grandson, that it seems ungrateful, even unnecessary, to think of anything else. And while it's certainly my hope to recover fully from these bodily ills, I feel that in other ways I've already been healed by his presence in my life.
So tomorrow, I'll be wishing a measure of the same for all of my family and LJ friends.
Unfortunately, as sometimes happens, the MRI brought other news as well, the course and consequences of which remain to be seen. That part of it will be discussed in a follow-up with my general practitioner on Friday.
But for now, I feel so blessed by the 4 1/2 years that I've had with my little grandson, that it seems ungrateful, even unnecessary, to think of anything else. And while it's certainly my hope to recover fully from these bodily ills, I feel that in other ways I've already been healed by his presence in my life.
So tomorrow, I'll be wishing a measure of the same for all of my family and LJ friends.
