☀️It Dawned on Me… {#20}

An accident that reminds me in all things, God is good

In my (in)courage article today, I wrote about an accident I had three weeks ago. I have a comminuted spiral right humeral fracture, a fancy way of saying my right arm broke in a spiral from just above the elbow almost to my shoulder.

At the time I wrote the article, the doctor thought we might avoid surgery using a compression brace to encourage the bones to grow back together. It didn't work. They grew further apart, which defies all logic, since my arm was squeezed like a vice.

This newsletter and my (in)courage post publish Wednesday, September 4, the day after surgery. You can read about the accident and my takeaway here: https://incourage.me/?p=248584 or listen to the podcast here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1753166/15670594

I haven’t posted about the accident anywhere until now. It’s overwhelming. The orthopedic surgeon estimates full recovery, including physical therapy, at a year. Dang, life is difficult without your dominant hand and arm. Working through the second draft of my novel is exhausting. I should be resting up for surgery tomorrow (writing to you on Monday afternoon), but I’m editing like a lunatic because surgery will be another setback, and honestly, the book is giving me life right now as I’m losing other things (and gaining an impressive, unwanted scar).

Hopefully the Braves will show off for me. (Damn those Phillies for ruining my weekend. Just kidding. Not really.) I express all my suppressed emotions and frustration during baseball games now. I cried when Brandon Gaudin, Braves’ announcer extraordinaire, said, “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses and we will turn them into gold,” after Gio Urshela, Whit Merrifield, and Matt Olson turned a 5-4-3 double play a couple of weeks ago. He referenced phenomenal recent performances from players we’ve acquired after other teams tossed them aside. (Injuries have battered the Braves this season too.) I’m feeling kinda tired, poor, and huddled now myself, just waiting for the gold.

Thanks for reading! I’ll update when I can.