Returning Home

As I noted in an earlier blog, I injured my right shoulder while in Ukraine. At the time, it was just uncomfortable. It has since blossomed into full scale agonizing pain, so much so that I have only managed a couple of hours of sleep during each of the last three nights.  As I rode on the train yesterday to Bonn for meetings today, I came to the decision that I could no longer continue this trip. Enduring the pain that has spread throughout the right side of my body has become the focus of my life over the past few days, not the meetings that I have come for.  So I am returning home this afternoon.

While I am grateful that this injury had nothing to do with my cancer or stem cell transplant, it is still frustrating and very disappointing to have to cut this trip short, as I had such hopes for it.  Could I continue, I would.  But God is on control and while I plead for His touch on my shoulder during this time, I rest in this knowledge, even though I get very little rest otherwise.