Perseverance

Wednesday was the day of the big doctors appointment. I never thought I could leave an appointment with such mixed emotions. I didn’t know whether to smile, cry, or just let my body go numb. The news that I received was both positive and negative depending on your perspective.

This coming Friday, the doctor is going to go in and lengthen my scar on the medial side of my foot and remove the screw, excess scar tissue, and do some manipulations.

Then November 15 the doctor is going to take out my stitches. One week after that they are going to allow me to take a handful of throws and test out my pain tolerance. If the pain is tolerable then I’m good to go for the season and work my way back into full competition for outdoors but potentially indoors.

But, if the pain is not tolerable then I am going to find myself under the knife again. The next plan of action is to fuse my bones together to gain more stability. This will either be done within the next month or in June providing the outcome of the first surgery.

Regardless of the outcome and what happens next I should be ready for the outdoor season. Either way I know that God is good and that He will protect me and use me to glorify His name, whether I’m competing or sidelines again.

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. --2 Corinthians 4:16-18

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are. –- Max Lucado