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In 2007, I began my original website, Sonshine's Haven. In 2007, it was turned into a blog and used to keep family updated on my first husband's fight with liver cancer. He passed away November of 2009. We were married for 34+ wonderful years and this journals some of that grief process I've gone through.
I have since remarried another widower, but Mike is missed dearly, and will always be a big part of my life.
At times, all of us will be called to act as witnesses to the suffering of another. We will be unable to affect the outcome physically. Words will fail us. Prayer will seem futile. And yet, the act of bearing witness to someone else's trials is a sacred sorrow that offers and astounding glimpse of eternal joy." by Ginger Garrett
"Being willing to stay with a loved one throughout their travail, can be difficult....YES! But offering yourselves as faithful companions on a dark and dreadful journey can be an unmeasured blessing." (paraphrased by me)
2.03.2012
After the move, there was a lot of clean up work to be done on the truck. The last time Glenn took his trailer out, he had two blown out tires, which resulted in some damage to the trailer underneath. So it was necessary to take it down to be repaired. Then carpets shampooed, the outside washed, etc.
I was unfamiliar with what was in his trailer, so it became my job to go through it, to see what it had, and what it didn't have. I have forgotten how much work that can be. We're both pretty exhausted.
Glenn hasn't been resting his back like his surgeon has been warning him to do. He has a bulging disk and titanium rods in his spine, and has been taking spinal injections for the last three months to help shrink the swelling to avoid further surgery. I've learned he will do what he wants to do.
But I'm not any better at following doctors orders. I have been cheating with my foot, and have been trying to walk without my walking cast, two of the four weeks I was suppose to be wearing it. I can get around easier, but my foot has been smarting and swelling. The incision doesn't hurt as much as the area beside it, which worries me it might be additional surgery to remove that other fracture. Maybe by the time I see the surgeon again, things will have improve and that won't be necessary. I'm growing a little tired of these fractures in my feet.
So...the adventure is planned, the hard work has been done, and we're planning to take baby steps on this journey to see how my dogs react. Our first goal, pass the Oklahoma state line! :)
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