Let's go back to the hospital (Club Med...tee, hee).
- The Hyperbaric chamber-used to heal wounds by oxygenating the blood. There was a problem, they put me in a 9 foot glass enclosure, so the oxygen could pressurize. I'm very claustrophobic! When I awoke enough to realize where I was, I panicked, kicking and screaming. Ultimately, they had to give me something to knock me out before every session. I had to have this done twice a day.
- The hydrotherapy/whirlpool bath-used to cleanse and massage wounds, causing better circulation. I had this twice a day also. It hurt extremely bad getting my bandages taken off and put back on. It felt like my legs were on fire when they did this. They harvested skin from my left leg to cover the wounds on the right. I would cry from the excrutiating pain the whole time. In the hydrotherapy room was a window to the right of me, and staff I didn't even know would watch through it. I was an unusual case, this disease was new at the time. Curiosity got to the staff, they wanted to see what my body looked like. I was on pain killers, so everything seemed like a nightmare. I looked down at my leg and it looked like a long tube of freshly ground hamburger. I was horrified! One day, my hydro therapist got mad at the gawkers for not allowing my privacy and threw something at that window. He walked over screaming at them and shut the blinds "My hero!"
- My children-they needed me. They were and are more important than any pain I had to go through. So I pushed through all the "crap" to be with them.
- God-the number one thing that save my life. He was there every step of the way and when I thought I couldn't make it one more day, hour, minute or second. He was and still is my strength!
"For God has said, "I will never fail you. I will never abandon you."
(No matter what you have to face).
Hebrews 13:5
I am blessed
Merrym Dawn Mathis Bruce
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