Things Are Not What They May Seem
I took a look at the x-ray and it looked like nothing had changed. At all. We thought they were the old x-rays from 3 weeks ago. Which just didn’t make sense. His shoulder has been feeling MUCH better. He’s been using his hand and arm more. No pain meds. But how could it still look so broken?
The physician’s assistant came in and asked to exam his shoulder. He was PRESSING on the fracture. No pain. I was ecstatic for that, but my mind still couldn’t reconcile what we had seen in the scans. Then he pointed to the x-rays and said everything looks good, like I should see a perfectly mended bone. So, I just asked. “But it still looks broken in that x-ray?” Then he zoomed in on the x-ray. And there in the dark space between the white bones, you could see hints of gray emerging. New bone growth.
My mind is rattling with lessons left untied from this brief appointment.
Things are not what they may seem.
Our eyes can deceive us.
I have limited knowledge in the area of x-rays. I should stick to my lane of what I know and seek to understand those things outside of my knowledge base.
Don’t assume everyone has the same limited knowledge base as you.
Where there is darkness, the light will shine. I love that the break is darkness and the bone is white.
Sometimes our teens are acting one way, but there is something else going on inside.
I have so many lessons spinning in my brain. But Daylight Savings Time, late night basketball games and up-late teenagers have stolen too much sleep from me this weekend and my brain is unwilling to connect all of those dots. So, dear reader, what lessons can you knit together from this story?
