Category: Surgical Memories

• Saturday… A Life Well Lived

  Saturday was quite a day. The morning started off great then I went out with my parents to Cow Town in Carlisle. After enjoying our food though things took a twist. We didn’t make it all the way home. We were less than 10 minutes from home when Dad thought the sounds were way too…

  Garnetjewel

  January 2, 2026

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, God’s Timing, Musical Glory, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Surgical Memories

  allergies, Benadryl, Cantata, congested, cough drops, Cow Town, dander, death, faith, Family, life, love, performance, prayer, rehearsal, Reverend, surgery, writing

• Graduated… Again

  When my surgeon saw me today she said I had graduated. Today marks 5 weeks after what now is my last surgery. God-willing, I am not looking for any other congenital anomalies to come out of nowhere again. Although I am grateful for my talented surgeon and her deft touch left me with scars that…

  Garnetjewel

  October 30, 2025

  God’s Timing, Modern American History, Musical Glory, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Surgical Memories

  Carpal Tunnel Releases, congenital anomalies, cooking, God-willing, Graduated, health, life, mental-health, office, scars, surgeries, surgery, therapy, writing

• Still A Little Paranoid Part 3

  For 5 months I stayed off this platform frankly because it was difficult to type and I had lost my inspiration to tell stories. Even my own fun and intriguing and ironic stories, although there were a few times I really wanted to break the fast and get back on here and share. The fact…

  Garnetjewel

  October 22, 2025

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Surgical Memories

  Bandanna’s, birthday, Evansville, exhausted, Family, family vacations, food, fried okra, graveside service, ironic stories, Lambert’s Cafe, life, missouri, Sikeston, Six Flags, triumph, writing

• Flowers & Food Create Smiles

  Today is a week, since surgery. I’m itchy more than achy like I was at this stage back in March. The heat has been more irritating than anything besides my nausea the last few days. The nausea usually goes away by afternoon the itchiness and heat don’t. Still I’m just feeling blessed that this journey…

  Garnetjewel

  October 2, 2025

  Family, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Surgical Memories

  anesthesia, bones, breakfast, cancer, flowers, food, gorgeous, health, life, Mexican Pizza, smiles, surgery, writing

• Why!

  Perspective matters. The word coincidence has very little meaning in the grand schematics of God’s will. Last week was my 4th surgery, dealing with one issue, in the delicate area between both my wrists and arms. Never in my wildest dreams did I believe I would become, literally, a professional patient against my will. Except…

  Garnetjewel

  September 29, 2025

  Bible Reflections, Family, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Surgical Memories

  bible, Carpal Tunnel Releases, Covid, faith, God, grace of God, hazard pay, health, independent, jesus, lessons, nursing home, question, surgery, why, wrist arm surgery

• Saturday, the day after Surgery…

  Alright so I have already mentioned not having my medication and the text that brought us bittersweet news. Miss Yvonne was gone, but she was with her Heavenly Father. When I got my medicine I had to get a drink and eat something little with it because otherwise I would get sick from the potency…

  Garnetjewel

  September 1, 2025

  Surgical Memories, Uncategorized

  birthday, childproof, cleaning, Family, health, help, kids, life, one-handed, patch, potency, sling, surgery, writing, zippers

• The Morning After

  For some reason I don’t remember sleeping very well that first night. Not having my medicine was a big part of it, but I did do a lot of resting in the hospital waiting on the Anesthesiologist, and then waiting on my original bed in the pre-op area again. I spent no less than an…

  Garnetjewel

  August 27, 2025

  Surgical Memories

  anesthesia, challenge, crafts, cross-stitch, day after, death, Family, fiction, kindred spirits, life, love, medicine, no sleep, patch, Sunday School, writing

• The Day After… Surgery

  This is the first time I didn’t have my pain medicine the day of surgery, but we got home late. So it was apparent we needed to get up early to get it. Early was not the word of the day however. Instead we got to Sullivan and before all of this happened I was…

  Garnetjewel

  August 21, 2025

  Surgical Memories, Uncategorized

  health, life, manifested, medicine, mental-health, pain killers, pharmacy, pre-op, script, surgery, writing