I love this time of year. I love everything Christmas is about, I even love the stress of getting a year wrapped up. At work, the end of the year is a MADHOUSE. It's fun. I call it my magical fairy dust wand. I can squeeze and shimmy one more surgery into every nook and cranny, and the gratefulness of people is astounding. Taking ten more minutes out of my day to make someone elses day, week, and year better is the cherry on top for me. From sweet elderly ladies with extremely displaced meniscal tears to high school kids with ACL tears and labral tears who need the holiday break to recover. It seems in the midst of the stress and the chaos, when we are able to make orthopedic "magic" happen, it's all the more amazing.
We took a little girl to the OR after clinic to do a closed reduction under fluoroscopy this week. She was seven, and she was the bravest little soldier I have ever seen. As we were taking her to the OR, she was saying her Bible verse of the week "When I am afraid, I will trust in You, In God whose word I praise, in God I trust I will not be afraid." It was AWESOME. I was moved to the point of tears, and teetering on the verge of a breakdown. This little seven year old girl quoting scripture in a time of uncertainty. The angels must have been having a heyday. Little Lucie is my inspiration for the week, and possibly the year. Secondly, watching Dr. Superwonderful put that little girls arm back where it needed to be was not earth shattering and took all of ten seconds, but to hear him say to her parents, "I am just a tool that God uses to help His people" was so amazing. Granted, a closed reduction of a seven year old's arm was not the "coolest" thing I've seen him do all year. Not even close. But to hear his humility and humbleness in the service of Christ the King was the greatest Christmas present I got this year, and I haven't even unwrapped any presents. I like to complain alot about patients and my boss' nuances and overbearing nature, but I am honestly blessed beyond measure to be this surgeon's right hand. Someone definitely knew what they were doing when I was hired to work for him, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't Dr. Superwonderful....
This year I have realized that when I wipe the state of depression and self loathing from my eyes, I find a pretty cool girl that is stronger than she knows, and who lives in a allowance of grace that is extremely past any understanding.
MERRY CHRISTMAS YA'LL!!!!!
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