[Nfbsatx] Prayers for a Successful Knee Surgery Tomorrow

[Jose Martinez]

Good luck Mary, I hope everything goes well.

On 2/8/11, Mary Donahue <braille at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>     As promised to some of you, I said I would send a prayer request out
> once I had more details. For those who already know, I apologize. For those
> who do not know, I have experience constant knee pain in my right knee since
> the end of April. In fact, during the national convention, it was bothering
> me some. It especially bothered me when I got up and sat down, and this past
> week, it has bothered me standing and walking as well.
>
>     Last October, our primary care physician referred me to an orthopedic
> surgeon in our part of town. After preliminary X rays and an MRI scan, I
> went back to receive an injection. By that time, it was Veterans Day, and
> unfortunately, the injection lasted only a week. I went back at the end of
> December. I had the chance to either go through a series of five injections
> or to have my meniscus (the cartilage between the kneebone and the kneecap)
> repaired.
>
>     Needless to say, I will be having a kneescope, a type of arthroscopic
> surgery, on my right knee tomorrow afternoon around one o'clock or
> thereabouts at the Physicians Ambulatory Surgical Center, one of San
> Antonio's many outpatient clinics, and also in our old neighborhood. I will
> be off work the next three days, but because there is so much proofreading
> at work, my supervisor and her bosses are allowing me to proofread from home
> until I have my postoperative follow-up on the twenty-fourth. Is that unique
> or what? It is definitely something I can talk about at a NAPUB meeting, but
> that's for another list.
>
>     In a nutshell, please keep me in your prayers during and after my
> surgery, and I will keep you all posted. After I go back to working outside
> of home, I will be receiving physical therapy. For now, a home health aide
> will come to check the incision.
>
>     In the meantime, thank you in advance for your prayers, and I will stay
> in touch.
>
>
> Mary Donahue
>
> "Be well, do good work, and keep in touch."
> Garrison Keillor
>
>
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