Amazing feats

Well, Sara sent me a youtube of Ethan at his Gymnastics meet.  He topped the scoreboard all round.  I watched the youtube presentation of his events and I know that there was never a time in my life I could have expected to achieve even one activity as he did.  Miss Smith from the education department used to come to our high  school and we had to don our sports attire (the most unattractive looking short dresses with bloomers to match) and she would make us get out on the basket ball courts at school and make us do jumping jacks and squats etc. as well as make us jump on a spring board and vault the wooden horse they had there.  It seems to me that she always picked a cold day for us to do this so we all had goosebumps which were not the most alluring feature for our blue legs and arms. I absolutely hated all this stuff - guess I am not in the same ball park as Ethan.  I think that this effort by Miss Smith was to try to get us interested in sports.  In grade school we had sports day where we ran races (I was always last), and tunnel ball and a few other things that were supposed to make us fit but there was not much encouragement to continue our fitness efforts after the events were over.  Ethan on the other hand now attends the gym twice a week for three hours each.  What an amazing kid he is.
Since December I have been waiting for eye surgery and finally it was done yesterday.  There was a membrane growing over my macular of my left eye as well as a hole in the macular.  Well the surgeon did his job and now I have a nitrous oxide gas bubble in my eye that is coaxed into position when I put my head down for four hours per day.  Originally when he talked to me about getting the surgery done, he said that the expectation was for me to lie on my stomach for 24 hours a day for one week.  That was not exciting at all.  But, when he had finished the surgery, he said that I had to be face down for four hours a day and that would be sufficient.  I am grateful that God heard our prayers and the prayers of many friends and I look forward to a quick recovery.  I went to the physician today for a post operative  visit and the bubble is still in my eye but he said that I probably will not be able to see clearly for the best part of a year.  We will wait and see how that goes.  At least I still have both eyes and for that I am grateful and eye drops to help heal from the surgery.