Good Morning,
As I am recovering from my leg surgery at home, my family and close friends are coordinating efforts to help me rest, keep my incisions clean and at the same time start getting back into the swing of things (which ultimately includes Physical Therapy...aka Torture....but I still love my PT friends.).
The amount of support is humbling. I am truly blessed, especially for my wife, Karen.
From our initial consultation, we anticipated three incisions to perform the surgery. After removing the bandages on Sunday (per Doctor's instructions) we found six. To keep these clean, we will need many bandages and betadine, etc. The hospital provided us with some, but not a lot.
Over a year ago, after my Mom passed, Karen, my sister and I cleaned out Mom's apartment. She was certainly a hoarder. She bought what she thought she needed, and then bought more assuming she may not get another chance to go shopping for a week, month or so, etc.
Mom had a need for large gauze bandages, so she hoarded.
In changing my bandages on Sunday, we found enough bandages to keep us going for several days just on the stuff Mom collected (and I remember we donated a fair amount of her first aid materials to the Wayside Christian Mission also).
Although it was not my plan to be prepared for this specific situation (we have some first aid supplies), it appears to have been someone's. Thanks Mom!
When we have multiple people all planning to be prepared for the future, the future they are planning for may be tied to the same future as others, like my Mom's bandages and my surgery over a year later.
This also means that those things that we plan for that don't happen the way we feel they should may not be a total loss as our preparations could benefit others down the road in some way we never intended.
Or, we may find someone else's failed plan actually ends up benefitting us, almost as if it were the plan all along...
Enjoy!
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