The Joy of Hernia Surgery
What joy are you talking about?
How can hernia surgery be joyous?
I get these questions quite often. But adversity often strengthens a person and his or her relationship with family and loved ones.
Trials help a person to grow and mature. I learnt through my hernia problems how to cherish those around me. I learnt how much I had taken life and its comforts for granted.
But life is frail and when you experience the trauma of a medical condition, it becomes very real to you. You learn who your real friends are and just how far those who love you will sacrifice themselves for you.
It was a period of reckoning. It was a period of awakening. Seeing my loved ones sacrifice themselves for me and feeling so helpless, it made me even more determined to overcome the pain and come through unscathed.
JOY – yes, I felt joy like no other when the doctors finally told me I had recovered after my hernia surgery. Joy that my loved ones would no longer need to slog to pay the bills and take care of me. Joy that I could finally start to repay them for their unconditional love for me.
So if you ever have any such condition, hernia or otherwise, take it as an experience in growing as a person and find the JOY within!
