Everything leading up to this spinal decompression and fusion surgery seems to have been designed to create fear. I was sent to a Peri-Op clinic with the purpose of coordinating all my meds, docs, conditions, etc. They ordered tests and those tests prompted other tests – including a nuclear stress test.
It was finally determined that I was “OK” to go ahead with the surgery. (I did have the option to forego it if I wanted.)
A few days prior to the surgery I started to chuckle. I thought well, “I’m going ahead with the fusion. I will either wake up in pain or wake up in glory!”
As it turned out, neither happened, I simply woke up! The pain didn’t set in until the next day and only lasted a few days.
Timothy Keller said, “All death can now do to Christians is to make their lives infinitely better.”
Or as 2 Corinthians 5:8 says: “to be absent from the body [is] to be present with the Lord.”