As the months pass from my AVM surgery, I find I am forgetting more and more of what happened. Not the big things, but lots of the little details. When I was in rehab, one of my assignments each night was to write to get my brain back in gear. My therapists recommended I journal about what I’d gone through in the last few weeks. Or write about anything else, just write. Get that brain working again!
I started out strong journaling, but let’s all be honest here, I’m not much of a journaler (or a blogger!). I made it up to Thanksgiving day, about 12 days into the ordeal. (Not long, I was in the hospital for 39 days.) Fast forward to being release and back home, I have very much appreciated Luke and Lacey’s dedication to posting Dan’s updates about me throughout the hospitalization. I don’t want to forget what I went through. Not in a masochistic or poor-me-victim-like way, but so that I can share my story with others. I look back over the ordeal and I see God’s hand at work in a mighty way. He spared me for a reason, and I don’t want to neglect remembering what he has done for me.
So I’m calling this “My Side of the Story…” because this may not be factually true. Once I was on heavy pain-relieving, coma-inducing meds, all kinds of crazy things seemed like reality. I forgot people I knew, saw Narnia-like creatures, found out I could fly (no, really! I could!), and so much more! J I will do my best to point out those times I know I’m straying from reality (they might be obvious!), but hey, I still might not know them all!
3 comments:
Cool. I will be looking forward to reading this. Be sure to go into detail about the Narnia creatures.
I am so glad you are doing this. It will be much easier to read about it than it was to watch it. You are still amazing!
Love you, Em! I'll admit, I was pretty excited when I saw you had an update. Course, I haven't been much for updating recently either. Soon, soon.
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