(Finish reading it before you give up and call me a whiner or whatever that is....cause people all over this world are hurting. And they do every minute of every day....somebody right now, not just me, is in pain. I promise this is not headed to a place that ends with me. Ive always preferred to do my suffering alone)......but read on......please. But this morning Im hurting after my fusion surgery on my neck a couple weeks ago. And I woke up a bit discouraged cause its been like that a few days now. Ive had lower back issues for years....surgery and procedures to keep that part of my body functioning. Though it hurts almost every day, Ive lived with it so long now, dont really even think about it. Its like drinking coffee....just part of the morning routine....to wake up with back pain. I just keep on keeping on and do what I do...and truthfully just put it in a place where I dont have to live with it. I know I can and will beat it....I always do. Now here I sit typing, two weeks into having fusion surgery on my neck...and thats creating some problems for me, especially the past four days or so now. My pain level has stayed somewhere around 7 to 8. And my threshold is pretty high just because of years of a built up tolerance to pain....10 on my pain level would be somewhat like a gunshot or stab wound. LOL. But for some reason, yesterday my lower back went out....as people with back troubles call it. It has me shuffling my feet cause it hurts to take a full-walking stride. So now here I am, when I thought by now I would really be doing good...and I got the double-whammy going. And today was going to be a big day for me...the first day I could drive again. Just little short drives to the store, etc. But it was a day meant for progress...and day I had been really looking forward to. But thats not what this is about. Its about the first thing I saw when I opened up my Facebook page this morning. Its about what I read, and about who....and what he said. The very first thing my eyes saw other than a coffee cup. Its about the words of David Cosner. Cosner....and young man that loves to fish and lives in Austin, Texas. He fished on the Texas State College fishing team when he was healthy enough. He amazes me...and few people do. This young man that has endured nearly 200 surgeries now from a rare lung disease. His fighting spirit and the way he looks at life earned him the name Superman. He spends more time in the hospital than Zona does in Bass Pro Shop. When hes not in the hospital, he fights tooth and nail to live a normal life. Fishing and socializing and not letting his disease get in the way of living. I started to follow him on Facebook over a year ago....started to keep in touch with him, texting ect.... and we became friends. We got him VIP tickets to the Classic at Guntersville last year, etc....Dave Mercer and Mark Zona ( Karin Hanni ZonaHannna got involved and helped me make it happen. And we all keep in touch with him....along with others like Don Barone. We have all been more than touched by this young man. He is special to all of us...keeps us in our thankful place. This morning I opened Facebook, moaning and groaning at just simple task of trying to lift my laptop, I opened it and read this first....as if it was meant for me. To lift me up. But I know better....the words may have been meant to help me along, but his words do that to anybody that read them. The words he typed started like this, From his journal... David Cosner Blog Dec. 8th 2014 Its 11:33pm, Im laying in my bed staring up at my ceiling fan, watching it go around and around, thinking. Thinking about how tough this last month has been on me and those closest to me. I lay here, watching my chest rise and fall, appreciative of every breath that God blesses me with, for I have fought tooth and nail for everyone..... He goes on to type his favorite quote...a quote from the Dalai Lama, “Men surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” ~ The Dalai Lama Today.....despite the pain....I will live. I will take my first drive in some time, and I will think of David Cosner. And as God is my witness, I will prevail over this trying period of time. I will live...love...smile, roll the windows down to smell the fresh air....enjoy every minute of it. And like David....I will not let it control my spirit or the things Im thankful for. https://facebook/groups/214991829918/ Don Cosner
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:29:50 +0000
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