PORCH PONDERINGS

God is Good

For the 30 Day Blogging Challenge, the prompt today is What is a challenge you faced and how did you overcome it?

As I have posted before, I have had brain surgery, for a benign brain tumor. That was by far the biggest challenge in my life. Everything else pales in comparison to having your head opened up and your brain pushed aside to remove a lump the size of a lemon.

Praise the Lord it was benign and I have had no complications from it, besides a spinal fluid leak a few years back from a blow to the head. I needed no chemo, no drugs, nothing further. Just repeat checkups for about five years, MRIs, and a pill to prevent seizures.

The incident did change my personality, so says my hubby. I did notice some changes and now try to remember the person I used to be.

I had a lot of time to think as I recovered for a month after surgery. I took a month to rest with no reading, no computer, no writing. It gave my scrambled brain time to reboot, so to say.

Things could have been so much worse. I could have awoken paralyzed, blind, or not at all. But the Lord was gracious and gave me many more years of life. For that I am thankful. I thank God every day for life and health.