Recovery and Our Minds.

Guest writer David Griffith returns with another post for his Muddy Boots Blog, this time talking about “Recovery and Our Minds.”

I am sitting in the cardiac care wing of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in my fashionable  hospital gown, looking out the 9th floor window, reflecting. Last Thursday I had open heart surgery to repair two valves. While I have a several month recovery, it went well. 

I find in the quiet of the night laying in a hospital bed with more electronics than a NASA mission, post surgery the mind dreams near the surface of consciousness. 

In surgery you are on devices that pump your blood and breathe for you. 

As a generator guy my last thought was about back up power. You have put total trust in the entire medical team. They are amazing. 

You think of family and the woman you love. 

You search your faith. 

You think about many things, and you realize the great value of what is important, essentials to the things that make life a life. 

Why is it that we need to lose control to understand what matters? 

Lying in bed, unable to sit or  go to the head without help. 

Trusting people, you really don’t know to stop and start your heart, but you will appreciate forever. 

You think about what you will change in version 2.0. And that I think is the lesson in all this. 

I have been blessed, no question, but were values, deeds, and actions aligned as well as they could?

• Can I use time differently?
• Can I value things differently? 
• Can I coach better?
• As I wrote prior, can I give and receive gratitude differently? 

There are many with deep challenges and needs. Can we answer their call as well as our own?

Thank you all, Jacqui, family, friends, community and especially the stranger.