After 8 long weeks of enduring a cast on my right arm, today was the day I became castless. As the nurse pulled apart the cast that he just sawed in half, I was eager to reclaim my limb. As I knew ahead of time, this arm didn't remotely look anything like my healthy left one. My skin had dried out so badly underneath the cast that I could had easily dusted the entire town with my DNA. The lower arm and wrist had shrunk; my hand still swollen. But it was MY arm and I was thrilled to be free of the fiberglass confinement I had come to know for 2 months.
However, along with the relief of this freedom comes a new source of anxiety... a new fear. I no longer have the protection, the armour. My wrist is now exposed and vunerable.I hold it close as I walk by someone or something that I might bump into.
The ordeal of this broken wrist is mirrored to the ordeal of a broken heart. It only takes a fall to break a heart. In our battered weakness, we cover our heart with a thick wall of pain, sorrow and loss... so thick that no one can touch the tender break, no one can see the damage as it truly is. Then.. the heart begins to awaken, nudging the soul, letting you know that it has mended. The heart refuses to be ignored.. no matter how hard the brain tries to shield it. The time arrives when the wall comes down.. exposing the yet tender and wounded core of our spirit. Even while this new-found freedom is sweet, it is scary. But... as each day passes and each baby step we take, it does become stronger. Does the heart return as it did prior to the break? No. The scars will always be there even as they fade with time. The outcome of this break is totally up to us. We can either continue to hide it and not put it to use, in which the heart will simply wither and die.... or.... we put it out there, to be shown with pride and to do the works that God intended for us.
Well, is time for some PT. Anyone wanna take my place?
Trish

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