6 years ago today we were celebrating no more cast after a long journey involving a break during soccer several years earlier, the incorrect healing of that wrist bone which impeded his viola playing, a difficult decision to re-break the bone and take bone from the hip to surgically repair the wrist, of the hip incision reopening and not healing, finding out that he was allergic to the stitches, and a soft cast put on the wrist. Later getting a hard cast but having it removed every week to be certain he wasn't allergic to that one. Weekly checks on that hip incision which continued for a while longer.
And questioning throughout: Was it worth it? Should we have done it? Was he really going to play viola after high school (because without the weird left hand position of a viola or violin player, he probably never would have known that the bone had healed wrong)?
Well, 6 years have passed and today's pictures at the National Repertory Orchestra festival and the opportunity to play with Joshua Bell are God's answers to that question. It was worth it. It was necessary. It was God's plan for Isaac's future. And he has a great scar which gives ample opportunity to share the amazing testimony of God's goodness and of an amazing hand surgeon at Johns Hopkins who took the time to ask life-altering questions about what was important to Isaac and where he thought the future might take him.
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