Latest Eye Issue Visit and Thoughts About Our Bodies

Thanking the Lord tonight for a happy visit to the retina specialist today. This was the one-month follow-up. I am still in a holding-pattern and did not yet need the injection into the one eye. However, I did something stupid - (lol) - as soon as I sat in the chair in the final round of offices we visited (eye drops in one room, into another room to wait for them to "take," eye drops in another room, photos taken in another room, into another room to wait), I looked over on their counter and saw the hypodermic sitting on a clean cloth, all ready and waiting!

So, there's no adverse change since last month, so he wants to do two months next time, then maybe another two month, but never more than four months between exams. Each one comes with a small co-pay. But I'd rather keep this rolling, now that I'm aware of the reality of the situation. He always ends the visit with something like, "but of course, if something happens suddenly, get right in here" -

So, thinking about the fact that we discovered this in a routine visit earlier this year with my former cataract surgery crew (from four years ago), I'm very grateful that it is being monitored.

On another aspect of taking care of this body, about 10 or 20 years ago, somewhere after my Stage 3 colon cancer and all the subsequent surgeries connected with that, I realized something I should have been respecting all my life. We do not own our bodies. God created them. They are on loan to us. We're supposed to take care of them.

Granted, many, many things can happen that we cannot anticipate. But I really should have taken better care on quite a few levels - food, health check ups, more physical activity when I was able to do so, that sort of thing.

I might be a slow learner in this respect, but I really am trying these days to take better care of this body so it's at least not in too bad a shape when he asks me to turn it in.

Sweet Lord Jesus, thank you again for a good visit with the specialist. I can't always expect that, given my age and the medical issue, but I thank you for this one at least. Please guide my actions along the way to help keep the status quo but to also accept whatever must be.