I hate to bother you all with yet another surgery…two this year! We’re fixing my left shoulder today, Monday, September 22, 7:30 a.m.

I am very pleased that the steroid shot I got in mid-June has allowed me near-normal use of my left arm after a period of being incapacitated. But there are things I can’t do, and other things, that if I do them, I wince and say, “Oops. I shouldn’t have done that.” So it’s time. It’s a “Reverse total shoulder replacement,” where they put the ball on the scapula and the socket on the humerus.

Please pray for my surgeon, Dr. Ron Hollis, who has given me two new knees (2018 and 2020) and repaired my right shoulder (also, 2018). Ron expects a smooth and relatively fast recovery. May it be so. I’ll keep you posted. I’m staying in the hospital (Memorial North in Colorado Springs) overnight and plan to come home Tuesday.

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled. (Psalm 6.2, ESV)