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Eleven Weeks Strong (and Still Healing)

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By Praises from a Wife and Mommy!


 I am eleven weeks post-surgery. It feels both so far from the beginning and yet, somehow, still like yesterday. The scar is healing nicely, and I can really see how far I’ve come, but this week brought some new challenges. Physical therapy started off a little rough. On Monday, I felt pain on the lower right side of my ankle, and honestly, it discouraged me. My mind went straight to questions: Did I overdo something? Is this normal? Am I still on track? Wednesday's PT felt much better and I got some new movements to do.  

Pain has a sneaky way of trying to plant seeds of fear. But even in that moment, I knew I didn’t want fear to take root. Healing isn’t always a straight line; it’s often two steps forward and one step back. Still, I had to remind myself that progress isn’t just measured in how I walk but in how I trust the process and lean into God’s faithfulness through it.

By midweek, things were looking up again. The pain started easing, and I could see that even when I can’t feel healing happening, it is happening. God is at work in the seen and unseen parts of my recovery, knitting things back together in His perfect timing.

“The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever.” — Psalm 138:8

This verse has been echoing in my heart. God isn’t halfway done with me. He’s perfecting what concerns me. That includes the physical healing, the emotional ups and downs, and the spiritual stretching that comes with waiting.  I know I started blogging about my injury and healing physically but really there is so much more in the emotional and spiritual side of things that I will continue to trust and keep my hands surrendered to what He wants to do.  

I don’t know exactly what the next few weeks will bring, but I do know this: each ache, each small victory, and each PT session is part of a bigger story of God’s goodness. And for that, I’m thankful.

Lord, thank You for being with me in every part of this healing process, in the pain and the progress. Help me to trust that You are still working, even when I don’t see the full picture. Give me strength to keep walking forward in faith, one step at a time. Amen.

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