His Presence—in Times of Pain
(not sinuses, but bunions... about 50 years ago!) My recent sinus surgery turned out to be fairly routine—for the surgeon anyway! I came home with gauze strips packed up my nose, and several instructions to follow. The toughest one was not to bend over! Thankfully, I wasn’t in a lot of pain, just groggy from the effects of the anesthesia. After one week, I had a follow-up appointment with the surgeon to have my nasal passages cleaned out. Despite numbing spray to deaden the pain from the suctioning tool that was going to be used, it was a painful procedure. “No pictures!” I told Al who was watching the whole process. Intermittently, the surgeon would ask, “How are you doing? Are you doing alright?” But I couldn’t answer. At one point he joked with another doctor who was present in the room, saying, “If this were you, you...
