Saturday: a brave smile and a make-shift improvised sling
Today………far more pain, and thankful for strong pain-killers.
(Gordon didn’t get too far with his Tim Keller’s “Counterfeit gods” - :-). Sleeping with the arm elevated as he should!
Look away now, if you can’t stomach the sight of open surgery –even though this is not Chris Barnard working on a heart. Or just scroll faster past the first small picture of an operation for Dupuytren contracture.
We guess Gordon’s hand looking something like this:
- For the poppy/opiates: God’s provision for extreme physical pain.
- Our humble thankful hearts also sing to Jesus who were wounded, shamed and killed to pay for our sins and bring us not only healing, or a revamp, but a brand new life in Him.
- Also that right now our Creator is causing the tissue in Gordon's hand to knit together – and whatever else is necessary for healing.
- And for the lovely efficient medical staff at St Albans hospital.
Which brings me, to a last few thoughts on the neutral poppy: a drug with two faces.…….very lovely & effective pain reliever, but also terribly misused in international politics, economics, crime, war and terrorism and by drug abusers and addicts. Its dangers to destroy lives are well-known.
(With the invention of the hypodermic syringe during the American Civil War, opiates really came into their own as both powerful pain killers on the battlefield and as drugs of abuse and addiction.)
Afghanistan....
