Today is a great day. I feel better than I have for a long time.
I guess I am boring one of you because I am still getting comments to that effect. Well this may not be a place you want to continue visiting.. I created this site for the purpose of letting my family and friends know how I am doing and also to learn how to create a site. If you have a site I would like to visit it so that I am free to comment on it’s contents.
Thanks for all the personal emails I enjoy them.
Today is overcast and we have had some serious rain today. I feel trapped here in the house as I am not supposed to drive for 2 weeks. They placed a plug in my artery and they fear I could pop it out. Chris has been helpful taking me places and Tim visits also.
I have started on my treadmill again and I will continue doing that each day. The doctor said it would be good for me and that I could extend the time a little each week. I have really gotten week and need to strengthen up some.
Chris is moving this weekend and I will surely miss seeing him and his car everyday. We have lived across from each other for 10 years so this will be new for me.
Hope all of you are well.
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Oops, John. I apologize if I have offended you. So anonymous bantering doesn't work in writing, especially when we truly don't know each other. Shame on me for not figuring that out.
But I hope you will indulge my blunder. I read your blog in one sitting and was saddened to learn of your illness, then heartened to learn you are doing well and so chipper about life. I naturally assumed warmth and friendship towards you (it was a big dose of you in one sitting), forgetting you don't know me from atom. So I presumed I could tease you (because you were doing a little of that to yourself), and called on your friends and family to tease you in their own way. Please forgive me.
As you see, I am not nearly as adept as you are in handling blogs so I haven't managed one that I can share yet. Takes quite a bit of devotion to the task as you know. I will be happy to have you visit once I get there. I am still visiting blogs to see how people do it.
And I think Chris is a fabulous son. It was his involvement is coaching you through setting up your blog that held my interest initially. His love and devotion to you is obvious, even in words, across cyberspace. I miss him with you.
A friendly well-wisher in Canada,
Mary
Well Mary in Canada, thank you for writing and letting me know that you were teasing me and my friends. I guess I am a little extra sensitive just now also. No hard feelings and please make any comments you would like. Just identify yourself so that I can talk back with you. I hope you’ll continue to visit my site and I will soon find something more to write about then my illnesses.
These types of misunderstandings happen all the time on the Internet. If all parties involved don’t know how emoticons are used confusion is a sure thing. It’s nice to see this work out pleasantly.
I’m going to miss living across the street too. What a comfort seeing you coming and going each day. But I seriously don’t think living a few minutes away will affect my relationship with you. I love to drive and you need to get out of the house too. So don’t let a 10-minute drive be an obstacle. The move has many benefits to my life, as you know.
As I sit and type this Tina’s cat is on the desk with me licking his back. I’ve got a towel folded up into a bed so we can keep each other company. I think he’ll love having someone here during the day for a change. When I’m not out showing houses or at the office I’ll be working from home. Her cat and I will become better friends.
Yesterday was a very difficult moving experience. My entire body is sore. What I thought would only take a few hours ended up being a full 6-hours with all three us working very hard. It would have been nice to have had some help from friends, but it seems they always have something to do when you need help moving. I’ve helped most of them move at least once, but never again. I’m not angry, but I will suggest they hire day laborers the same way I had to.
I can’t get it out of my mind about that one helper. He said he lived in the woods. And he recently had three toes amputated from a nasty Brown Recluse bite that went untreated for about a week. His painkillers are out and he planned to limp back into the woods to sleep in an abandoned building for the night.
What can I do? What do you do to help a homeless person? I can’t give him anything – he can’t carry it. And he said he was in the Marines years ago, but what happened since? I estimate he is only 35 years old. And he is a very nice guy. Obviously not well educated, but he was articulate and a very hard worker. Where is his family? How about friends? It sucks to see people with no light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, I gave him some extra cash, but what real good does that do? The guy is sleeping in the woods in 90-degree mosquito, cockroach, snake and spider infested shacks. I felt helpless and not sure what to do. What could I do?
Chris
Lovely. I just noticed something about my last post.
I said, "As I sit and type this Tina’s cat is on the desk with me licking his back."
I can assure you that I am not licking the cats back. He is licking his own.
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