FASTING FOR PORT REMOVAL............

Waiting to have my right shoulder infusion port removed today, requires that i fast from all food and drink, water included until it is done. Lunch is due my appetite is raging, and here I lay having to stay hungry. The physical therapist and I worked on pivoting from the bed into an ordinary chair, which was strenuous, but successful. Especially considering it was not from bed into a wheelchair, and I am working without my temporary prostheses. The back pain resulting from today's brief session is much improved over yesterday, and I have not had to call for any pain reliever. For the second night in a row I went without any Norco, and took my last dose 22 hours ago after my pt. A friendly, fraternal phone call from Fr. Steve Avella, made my morning and broke down some of the tedium of being in what for the last several days has become a way station to arriving where I need to be at Mercy General Rehab. A fully active mind, and a inactively affected body, are far from the ideal for any person with spirit, energy, focus, and determination. I am hoping and praying extra hard, that this port removal be done without much more delay, food and drink be available, and transfer completed, in what increasing feels like a protracted, manana moment !!!!!!!!!!!!............Fr. Troy