Footloose and fancy free
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Have have to stay off my right foot since Sept 10 due to surgery and subsequent unexplainable swelling of one of the non-scalpeled foot joints. I've become very creative in the ways I've found to keep myself occupied and to do what I need to get d...
Gray's Anatomy
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Last night's episode of Gray's Anatomy featured a six-way kidney transplant, and of course EVERYTHING that could possibly go wrong did. Because there wouldn't be a show if it didn't all go wrong, right? Anyway, my kidney transplant was ten years a...
Losing Froggggy
posted over 3 years ago, updated 2 minutes later | 2 comments
Last night about 2 am, during a thunderstorm, I heard my cell phone beep. I had a text message from my favorite kid Haskle, saying "OMG I can't believe the news about Froggggy! That's crazy!" Knowing that our mutual friend Paula, known online as F...
50th birthday
posted over 3 years ago | 1 comment
Today I quietly celebrated my 50th birthday. I never really quite believed I'd make it this far. When I was first diagnosed with diabetes at age ten, I read every book and pamphlet about that disease that I could get my grubby little hands on. At ...
Happily child-free, thank you very much
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
I am happily child-free. Most of the year, this fact is unremarkable. But the week before Mother's Day, it casts me in the category of social pariah. I not only have never given birth, I've never adopted and neither my first or second husband have...
My PC beat me up today
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Every month I put together my church congregation's newsletter. I contact the Elders, the directors, the pastor, the ladies societies, the youth group leaders, the altar guild - - really everyone who does ANYHING involving the church - - and find ...
Stomach bug taught me something
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
I've been sick as a dog (Cooper and Ace might have to blog on the subject of the phrase "sick as a dog") since Sunday night, so I missed physical therapy all three scheduled mornings this week. Do you know what I've decided? I can probably cut bac...
Echo
posted over 3 years ago | 1 comment
Pedigree dog food ran a commercial a few months bad featuring Echo, a cute little blonde dog in a shelter, aching to be adopted. Tonight I saw a "follow-up" commercial featuring Echo in his new home. Yes, I cried like a baby! And as soon as I'm do...
The Case of Mistaken Identity
posted over 3 years ago | -1 comments
A week ago Monday, my husband went to the Michigan Secretary of State's office to get new license plate tabs for the car and the truck and to renew his driver's license. The tabs were no problem: the SoS was only too happy to take his money for th...
My ears are valuable this week!
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Today a friend contacted me out of the blue and begged me to persuade him not to pack his few belongings in his car and just drive until he drove out of gas. This friend is a high-functioning autistic, who recently lost his father to cancer after ...
