Friday, June 8, 2012

Healing

Last weekend the wife and son went to get haircuts and I volunteered to do the grocery shopping.  When it came time to load the groceries into my truck I remembered the baskets of clothes that we had loaded into the bed, of the truck, but forgot to drop off.  Since the bed was full I put the bags in the back seat and headed to Goodwill to drop off the clothes and be the double hero, did the grocery shopping, took the clothes to Goodwill (and as a bonus get that stuff out of my truck).  When I arrived at Goodwill, there was a tv that we were moving that needed to be lifted up while I pulled out the baskets.  The first basket was easy since the second basket was still propping up the tv and that made me a little complacent when it came time to get the second one.  With the left hand I lifted up the tv and pulled the basket out with the right hand and about the time the back edge of the basket was under my left elbow and clear of the tv the tv became too much to hold and fell to bed of the truck.  The only problem, I was still trying to hold the tv up and as a result hyper-extended my arm.  I've never heard by body make those noises, but something in my arm popped 4-5 times and the inside of the elbow immediately started to hurt and the arm became useless.  As I headed home the pain became worse and I could not even make simple movements of the arm from the elbow down without a significant amount of pain.  When I got home I asked my wife to take a look at it (she is in the medical field) and she was concerned that I might have torn a muscle (looks like you tore...) or ligament.  Last thing I want to do on a Sat is spend all day in the ER so I decided to wait and see, my wife took my good hand and we prayed for healing.  The next day it was significantly better, I still was not able to lift anything with it but I could do many tasks, except lifting, pain free just a dull soreness.  It's now 6 days later and the arm is almost completely healed, my wife says these types of injuries take 6 weeks to heal normally.  Thank you Jesus.

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