Just pain.
Hazy and blurred…these past five days.
Prayers?
This is more pain than I’ve experienced in many years. Helplessness and holding onto the promise that these days will seem a bad dream soon.
No voice…fingers that trip one another due the powerful effects of pain medication, though not powerful enough by my clock. My clock seems to hang on that extra hour before the next dose.
Let’s just say it’s worse than I imagined and better than it could be.
When you think you have it bad, it could always be worse…
Thanks for all your prayers and for tolerating a post which I hope will make me laugh…in a few weeks…
Kimberly
I am a traditional Catholic homeschooling mother of 9 children, married for 30 years to the most patient and sainted man. As converts to Catholicism in 1991, our family has only recently discovered the beauty and full expression of our beliefs in the timeless liturgy of antiquity, the Extraordinary Form also commonly referred to as the Traditional Latin Mass. An avid knitter, I also enjoy gardening, reading and immersing myself in the everyday graces of my vocation.
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January 25, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Ah, poor Kimberly…you will laugh as soon as the pain subsides a bit.
How do you keep the kids in line in the meantime? Hold up cards with pre-written momisms? Bet that’seffective…maybe a pea-shooter might get their attention better. An air horn? Or maybe hire one of the kids to be your minion and help keep the others at their tasks…
If you can’t laugh, maybe you can smile…
January 27, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Pea shooter? You made me laugh, Nadja!! Naughty, naughty…laughing hurts!
But I more than forgive you…I thank you. It was days ago that I read this and laughed through tears, so thank you for the respite…
We’ve not resorted to air horns or strong-arming…but I’m considering it. Today we had a ban on all things “war.” The boys need a firm hand and I just don’t have it right now, but Dad’s off this weekend…so, we’ll see what we shall see!
Blessings…
January 25, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Kimberly, I just prayed the Memorare for you. I hope that your pain subsides soon.
January 25, 2010 at 7:20 pm
praying that the Divine Physician will restore you to good health soon…
and waiting for a post that lets us know you’ve found your laughter….
so hard to do when your body is racked with pain.
January 25, 2010 at 11:36 pm
I know how you love St Francis de Sales so I’m currently doing my novena to him for you and a speedy recovery. When I read this prayer written by him the other day, I thought you’d find it consoling, especially in view of what you are experiencing at the moment.
An Act of Abandonement
“O my God, I thank you and I praise you for accomplishing your holy and all-lovable will without any regard for mine. With my whole heart, in spite of my heart, do I receive this cross I feared so much! It is the cross of Your choice, the cross of Your love. I venerate it; nor for anything in the world would I wish that it had not come, since You willed it. I keep it with gratitude and with joy, as I do everything that comes from Your hand; and I shall strive to carry it without letting it drag, with all the respect and all the affection which Your works deserve. Amen”
Keeping you in thoughts and prayers during this painful time, when even swallowing ice cream hurts, if you’re like I was. The time when you can eat all the ice cream you want and you don’t even want it. It doesn’t seem fair. ; )
January 26, 2010 at 8:20 am
So sorry to hear this. May God use your pain and may you feel His comfort soon.
January 26, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Praying for you…
January 26, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Dear Kimberly, I’m still praying and will offer my Mass up for you tomorrow. I hope the time of laughter will come SOON!
January 27, 2010 at 12:34 am
I am praying for you, Kimberly. I agree with Jean, I do hope the laughter comes soon!
January 27, 2010 at 9:44 am
Praying, praying, praying, and offering up my sufferings for the abatement of yours! I’ll offer a rosary for you today, my dear friend. God bless you with a speedy recovery! We love you.
January 27, 2010 at 3:41 pm
All of these prayers are so precious to me…I prayed for all of you last night. Thank you so very, very much!