He’s doing well today. But, each day will be a new day with its own set of challenges. Today, the surgery is behind us. The pain is blocked due to a nerve block, and that is currently on its way to wearing off. He just had his second Vicodin, and I’ve set my alarm for [...]
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We studied Friday’s cat scan of my son’s broken leg, clipped with a clothes pin to our floor lamp, all weekend. The cat scan reveals that the fracture line in the tibia runs straight down and splits the ankle.When the orthopedist delivered the news Friday, on my birthday, I found myself grasping the examining table, [...]
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Hey, little brother. Get out of your bed, grab a shovel and a bathing suit. We’re building a swimming pool today.
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The high school boys at the lake are getting pressure from coaches back home to come back for training! Instead, my husband, the Ironman, put them on a rigorous training schedule. Lifting weights, swimming, and a running course that includes 12 times up and down the hills. How perfect that they both had a training [...]
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I will start by saying that it’s been a rough 24 hours, and I’m tired. When he fell, I turned the boat around, and instead of seeing his eyes looking across the water for the rope, I saw his head tilted upwards eyes squinting shut, and he was reeling in pain. I held my breath, [...]
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There are many people who cross our paths in the lake in summer. We have the barber, the people from Colorado, the ones with the yellow boat, and the ones with the fast fishing boat. Life on the lake is condensed. We watch each other out of the corners of our eyes for hours, without [...]
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Temperatures, probably like where you live, are soaring into the 90s. The grass is turning gold, and the amount of water on the vegetables is a always being adjusted by human intervention. When the air is this hot, swimming is a constant, all day affair, for everyone. When the air is cold, the lake talks [...]
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Actually, I’ve got love and 6 Beatles tickets. Shot from my phone. Anyone who has hung around our house within the last 365 days is well aware that there is a Beatles revival going on our family, eight days a week. There are Beatles tunes bounced around from Ipod to Ipod, Beatles trivia questions, and [...]
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This is a boy who spotted a turtle, with a shell the size of a dinner plate. She, the turtle, was trying to come to to shore o that she could lay her eggs. Yet, every time she swam close to shore, he “sensed her,” and began to play a game of cat and mouse [...]
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