Feeling tired but no pain. just an occasional twinge. I have been so extremely blessed in this entire operation...
A Dr. that has an outstanding reputation, did her job, and lived up to all the hype I'd heard. Dr. Barbara Goff (standing ovation from me!) Jeanee got on line and saw that she'd been on Dr. Oz at some point. I have no idea why or when but that was interesting to note. She knows her robotics!
A wonderful healing comfortable place to stay while there. I had no idea that it was a non-profit. It just had such a loving feeling about it. I could feel it but it was later I understood why. 28 rooms. a few minutes from the UofW location I needed for my directions and surgery. They have so many amenities and so kind and caring. If you have an Medical Appointment at the UofW then check with The Collegiana. It's old but we loved it. Reasonable on all counts.
The UofW is a training facility so once you are transferred to a room there are different nurses all the time, coming in and out. It was interesting. They all looked like babies and you could see the dedication, determination, and desire to be on top of their nursing goals. There were a couple that I did think....hmmmm....maybe you want to rethink this as your career??? The head nurse would show up every so often so the train never left the tracks. I was happy for them to have such a great training ground. On my day there were 20 folks in 20 cubicles, in the same area as me, being readied for surgeries by 20 Doctors. Amazing!
A storm came in and the pass was a concern. Kipper told us when to leave. Jeanee had the car loaded and we headed out at his signal. When we got to the part of the pass where the truckers chained up...trucks everywhere!!! It still said traction tires so we moved on. The windshield was not giving clear vision (like an oil swipe!) and then suddenly out of nowhere, to our right, careening in from some exit, 6, yes 6!, snowplow trucks. Jeanee pulled in behind the first two and they totally scraped the road in that outside lane...the entire distance! They exited and crossed over the overpass and headed back toward Seattle. And us????...it was all over on the sleet and mess for us! Jeanee asked if I thought her Aunt Dixie had helped us! I told her that Mother and Dixie helped with the surgery and my Daddy handled the road! I do totally believe in the availability and help of angels.
Jeanee. If I could only choose one word to describe my darling daughter it would be magnanimous. She helped on so many levels and did so many things around here. We had such a great time together. We can talk endlessly about everything! We laugh! We love each other. True there are angels nearby but gone from earth-life and then there are living angels and she is truly my earth angel! xoxoxox
I haven't even touched on friends. Tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow as it's wonderful to have people that love you outside of family.
I continue my pursuit of finishing the BoM by April Gen. Conf. which technically starts the end of March! I'm just enjoying it so much.
thank you, dear readers. You are loved and appreciated.
Monday, February 19, 2018
Sunday, February 18, 2018
I'm back...
I got home late Thursday afternoon and everything turned out wonderful. NO cancer. I'll write more tomorrow. The Dr. called on our way home with the pathologists report and that was best news ever! She was so happy for the outcome. Pre-cancer gave it's warning that it was to the max and she said it was right and necessary I had the surgery. I will be back here tomorrow. Last few hours with Jeanee (my angel daughter!). Friends have been kind and supportive. Life is great. some restrictions for a few weeks on not driving or lifting anything (with a gallon of milk being the limit!) I can drive in two weeks and lift after 6 weeks. Also suppose to rest when I feel tired. I'm one that obeys what the Dr. prescribes as I've seen people really foul things up because they feel so good. I felt blessed on every side and am so thankful. Really do appreciate your love and prayers.
No pets or babies to tend so I've got it made on minding my p's&q's!
Thanks Natalie for your note!
Tomorrow. I think the sun will come out tomorrow!
No pets or babies to tend so I've got it made on minding my p's&q's!
Thanks Natalie for your note!
Tomorrow. I think the sun will come out tomorrow!
Friday, February 9, 2018
life happenings...
A couple of days ago I awoke to the hymn, When Faith Endures. Understandably appropriate lyrics as I prepare to go to Seattle for surgery at the UofW. Somewhat disappointed at my age to need a hysterectomy. I really was happy to still be intact and now...pre-cancer. Drats!!! This will be, to me, space age surgery. Robotic! I'll share the happenings when I get back. My daughter will arrive today and she will be with me. That will be wonderful to have her with me.
Also in my mind, a song from my Baptist girlhood days..Standing on the Promises.
Also Joseph Smith saying doubt/fear & faith cannot exist together. You know the one I mean from Lectures on Faith.
Also the thought...His Promises are Sure. Is that a Scripture? I looked but not thoroughly. I love that thought.
It will be a memorable Valentines Day! Knowing I'd be gone for my Primary class, and wanting to send them cards, I dug out my Valentine card cache and found Terry's annual Valentine card. I give him the same card every year for occasions that need a special card. He only notices that he gets a card and that I love him. He does not realize that it's the same card. It's the love that counts anyhow and I do really love him! Plus he is always touched that I give him a card. Groundhog Day on a new level?
So enjoying my cover to cover read of the Book of Mormon. I try not to get carried away with footnotes and looking things up and all of that. I do that when I'm doing my personal study. This is just a read-through without reading chapter headings and the entire unfolding of the happenings just dovetails in a rather fascinating way.
I've been thinking of the fact, that even in the Book of Mormon, there is a to good to be true occurrence. Mosiah 9:6 and the next few verses. Free land for all. Do with it what you want. So they built and repaired and grew crops- all to have the giver of the land turn on them and they end up in bondage!!
Loving this quick read!
We know there is the scripture that tells us...about seasons...about a time to be born and a time to die. I want to share two incidents that came into my life on the same day. I will start with the death one.
Why even tell it? Because there was a tender mercy in the tragedy.
We had long time friends from Alaska. They became snowbirds...summering in Homer, Alaska and wintering in Galveston, Texas. Their house caught on fire and they were both killed along with their dog. The thought of their suffering just overwhelmed and horrified all of us. Really, it was to much to even grasp. Nightmare event. And then...the tender mercy was revealed. Yes, the fire did the unthinkable to them and their dog BUT Ben was found in his recliner, she was on the couch, and the dog was on the floor by the couch. Toxic fumes were what ended their mortal trek. Not the fire. All of us were so relieved. I know not all tragedies have endings that soothe/comfort those left behind but I'm so thankful it happened in this case.
One of our Florida granddaughters came to visit for several days. We had a family dinner with our son and then his son and family came up. Our grandson has two children. They arrived with gift bags and I assumed it was for their Grandpa. We sat down to dinner and Ava and Kai handed our son one of the gift bags and me one! I looked in and yes!!!- a white onesie with- guess what?? September 2018 - printed on it. Kipper had the same thing in his bag. He was being told...there is something else in your bag! check it out! He dug in and pulled out the small ultra sound. I thought that was nice of them to share that with him. Then they were saying...read it! read it! he hesitantly said...wins? wins? huh? He had his thumb over the T!! TWINS!!! We are soooo happy! We were all yelping and Tori broke out in tears and it was just so much fun.
Life is good.
I'll be back here next week.
Also in my mind, a song from my Baptist girlhood days..Standing on the Promises.
Also Joseph Smith saying doubt/fear & faith cannot exist together. You know the one I mean from Lectures on Faith.
Also the thought...His Promises are Sure. Is that a Scripture? I looked but not thoroughly. I love that thought.
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It will be a memorable Valentines Day! Knowing I'd be gone for my Primary class, and wanting to send them cards, I dug out my Valentine card cache and found Terry's annual Valentine card. I give him the same card every year for occasions that need a special card. He only notices that he gets a card and that I love him. He does not realize that it's the same card. It's the love that counts anyhow and I do really love him! Plus he is always touched that I give him a card. Groundhog Day on a new level?
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Can't resist!...to bee or not to bee? I've decided that honey, for me, is a Whole Food and not akin to the likes of granulated sugar etc. etc. Just putting that out there.
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So enjoying my cover to cover read of the Book of Mormon. I try not to get carried away with footnotes and looking things up and all of that. I do that when I'm doing my personal study. This is just a read-through without reading chapter headings and the entire unfolding of the happenings just dovetails in a rather fascinating way.
I've been thinking of the fact, that even in the Book of Mormon, there is a to good to be true occurrence. Mosiah 9:6 and the next few verses. Free land for all. Do with it what you want. So they built and repaired and grew crops- all to have the giver of the land turn on them and they end up in bondage!!
Loving this quick read!
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We know there is the scripture that tells us...about seasons...about a time to be born and a time to die. I want to share two incidents that came into my life on the same day. I will start with the death one.
Why even tell it? Because there was a tender mercy in the tragedy.
We had long time friends from Alaska. They became snowbirds...summering in Homer, Alaska and wintering in Galveston, Texas. Their house caught on fire and they were both killed along with their dog. The thought of their suffering just overwhelmed and horrified all of us. Really, it was to much to even grasp. Nightmare event. And then...the tender mercy was revealed. Yes, the fire did the unthinkable to them and their dog BUT Ben was found in his recliner, she was on the couch, and the dog was on the floor by the couch. Toxic fumes were what ended their mortal trek. Not the fire. All of us were so relieved. I know not all tragedies have endings that soothe/comfort those left behind but I'm so thankful it happened in this case.
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One of our Florida granddaughters came to visit for several days. We had a family dinner with our son and then his son and family came up. Our grandson has two children. They arrived with gift bags and I assumed it was for their Grandpa. We sat down to dinner and Ava and Kai handed our son one of the gift bags and me one! I looked in and yes!!!- a white onesie with- guess what?? September 2018 - printed on it. Kipper had the same thing in his bag. He was being told...there is something else in your bag! check it out! He dug in and pulled out the small ultra sound. I thought that was nice of them to share that with him. Then they were saying...read it! read it! he hesitantly said...wins? wins? huh? He had his thumb over the T!! TWINS!!! We are soooo happy! We were all yelping and Tori broke out in tears and it was just so much fun.
Life is good.
I'll be back here next week.
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Yoo Hoo...it's me
Good morning! getting ready for a trip to Seattle in a week (more on that later) and right now, enjoying one of my darling granddaughters that is here for a few days. I love these girlies! Plus today out grandson and his family are coming for a family dinner and life just feels full and good to me.
Life does not always feel that cozy with this big mortal test always going on so I revel in the moments. Per usual...fiddled around again and didn't post as thoughts occurred. Me bad. Speaking of such a comment, Me bad., I recently read that WYA means...where you at? Really? The dumbing of America? Or am I just old-fashioned or just all uppity on my high horse? I don't know!
I am enjoying my fountain pen! I'm determined to revive note-sending and letter-sending. Perhaps it will be a one way street but I'm not going to WYA through life! I will connect a few words from my heart and actually endeavor to write a sentence! It's not an easy task to connect and engage family and friends when I'm not in the cell phone circle and e-mail is pretty antiquated to a lot of my family. Facebook continues to hold me hostage so I can see pictures of those I really love and care about and their antics. Family and friends. I love my family and friends. And I love you readers! You are special to me so I'm counting my blog as a personal handwritten letter to each of you! (Okay. are we getting delusional here?)
Probably like so many others in the world, with the call of our new Church President, I feel the prompted compulsion to read the Book of Mormon by next General Conference. That end date, by the way, is March 30th. I read a lot of Conference talks and also read the Scriptures but it's hard for me to read from cover to cover as I get sidetracked and start looking other things up and yes, I am reading it but I just get so scattered. I decided to make a change for success with a goal in mind.
I decided to have a paperback Book of Mormon be my Read Through Cover to Cover BOM. And I set the goal to read it, cover to cover, from General Conference to General Conference. It is really working great. I'm not distracted and start looking things up (well, not to much. actually hardly ever) And I read no chapter headings. I just go through verse after verse after verse.
I remembered years ago, flying from Alaska to Boise to help out my Mother and also needing to prepare to teach the BOM in Seminary that coming school year. I decided to read the BOM in the 3 weeks I would be there and that was how I read it. not reading any chapter headings. It was wonderful as the story line was so exciting with no breaks. This is the same way. I'll keep my regular scriptures for everything else. This little paperback is just for reading cover to cover.
I was breaking my BOM in. Now is that a term that people use in this modern world? You know...taking a new book and carefully opening it with several pages, and then gently pushing down the center so the spine won't break if you just whip it open and be rough. So as I was getting my paperback ready for the big read, I thought about reading and learning and in today's world how much I enjoy documentaries. Selected ones but there are really some great ones no matter where your interest lies.
Over the years I've been fascinated with the scripture- men are that they might have joy. Trying to understand the complexity of earth-life challenges, with pain and suffering and heartache and heartbreak and on and on, and how can one be having this joy? Therefore I've read a lot about happiness and gratitude and forgiveness and love.
In today's world, as I mentioned, I've watched documentaries about various subjects and not to long ago I watched two that fascinated me. Worldly things fascinate me when they actually are backing the teachings of the Church. Like it's now fashionable, a worldly thing, to basically live the Word of Wisdom- eat healthy/abstain from smoking etc. etc. Fasting monthly, and intermittent fasting ...lots of books about the wisdom and benefits of developing that habit.
(Really this is going to tie together) I recently watch two Documentaries... Happy and Inn Sae'i.
Inn Sae'i means the power of intuition. Actually it wasn't recently I watched them. It was quite awhile back so that means you will now get a hodgepodge on combo info on what so impressed me.
MumboJumbo....Mixed bag of info that I enjoyed!
The Gross National Happiness was measured and it turns out that Denmark was the highest rated. While Toyko, Japan was the lowest. Shocking to me was they have coined a word called Karoshi. The definition is Death by Overwork. Men are dropping like flies! They even filmed a Karoshi choir, seems they were all young females, singing to honor their spouses that died of Karoshi.
Okinawans, also of course Japanese, live the longest happy fulfilled busy lives. That went into healthy eating and exercise and balance and friendships and relationships.
A study was done in Happy (not to the Okinawans), electrodes applied, to measure the brain activity of good thoughts. Good thoughts being gratitude. They showed the ability to produce dopamine by expressing gratitude. They also showed the rise and impact between folks assigned to list weekly their gratitude list and the marked difference and rise, when it was done daily. But the big kicker, the #1 thing in alighting the brain with all sorts of goodness and the very greatest measure of happiness was...Acts of Kindness!!!
When they showed the incredible impact that acts of kindness have on the brain, connected with highest rate of happiness...I thought...The Gospel is so true!!!
Weren't we just challenged in December to focus on acts of kindness??
These two Documentaries added a bit more to my understanding of Men are that they may have joy. More and more I see that joy is possible no matter what sort of things are going on in our mortal trek.
Way to much written here but sending it out anyhow.
Life does not always feel that cozy with this big mortal test always going on so I revel in the moments. Per usual...fiddled around again and didn't post as thoughts occurred. Me bad. Speaking of such a comment, Me bad., I recently read that WYA means...where you at? Really? The dumbing of America? Or am I just old-fashioned or just all uppity on my high horse? I don't know!
I am enjoying my fountain pen! I'm determined to revive note-sending and letter-sending. Perhaps it will be a one way street but I'm not going to WYA through life! I will connect a few words from my heart and actually endeavor to write a sentence! It's not an easy task to connect and engage family and friends when I'm not in the cell phone circle and e-mail is pretty antiquated to a lot of my family. Facebook continues to hold me hostage so I can see pictures of those I really love and care about and their antics. Family and friends. I love my family and friends. And I love you readers! You are special to me so I'm counting my blog as a personal handwritten letter to each of you! (Okay. are we getting delusional here?)
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Probably like so many others in the world, with the call of our new Church President, I feel the prompted compulsion to read the Book of Mormon by next General Conference. That end date, by the way, is March 30th. I read a lot of Conference talks and also read the Scriptures but it's hard for me to read from cover to cover as I get sidetracked and start looking other things up and yes, I am reading it but I just get so scattered. I decided to make a change for success with a goal in mind.
I decided to have a paperback Book of Mormon be my Read Through Cover to Cover BOM. And I set the goal to read it, cover to cover, from General Conference to General Conference. It is really working great. I'm not distracted and start looking things up (well, not to much. actually hardly ever) And I read no chapter headings. I just go through verse after verse after verse.
I remembered years ago, flying from Alaska to Boise to help out my Mother and also needing to prepare to teach the BOM in Seminary that coming school year. I decided to read the BOM in the 3 weeks I would be there and that was how I read it. not reading any chapter headings. It was wonderful as the story line was so exciting with no breaks. This is the same way. I'll keep my regular scriptures for everything else. This little paperback is just for reading cover to cover.
I was breaking my BOM in. Now is that a term that people use in this modern world? You know...taking a new book and carefully opening it with several pages, and then gently pushing down the center so the spine won't break if you just whip it open and be rough. So as I was getting my paperback ready for the big read, I thought about reading and learning and in today's world how much I enjoy documentaries. Selected ones but there are really some great ones no matter where your interest lies.
Over the years I've been fascinated with the scripture- men are that they might have joy. Trying to understand the complexity of earth-life challenges, with pain and suffering and heartache and heartbreak and on and on, and how can one be having this joy? Therefore I've read a lot about happiness and gratitude and forgiveness and love.
In today's world, as I mentioned, I've watched documentaries about various subjects and not to long ago I watched two that fascinated me. Worldly things fascinate me when they actually are backing the teachings of the Church. Like it's now fashionable, a worldly thing, to basically live the Word of Wisdom- eat healthy/abstain from smoking etc. etc. Fasting monthly, and intermittent fasting ...lots of books about the wisdom and benefits of developing that habit.
(Really this is going to tie together) I recently watch two Documentaries... Happy and Inn Sae'i.
Inn Sae'i means the power of intuition. Actually it wasn't recently I watched them. It was quite awhile back so that means you will now get a hodgepodge on combo info on what so impressed me.
MumboJumbo....Mixed bag of info that I enjoyed!
The Gross National Happiness was measured and it turns out that Denmark was the highest rated. While Toyko, Japan was the lowest. Shocking to me was they have coined a word called Karoshi. The definition is Death by Overwork. Men are dropping like flies! They even filmed a Karoshi choir, seems they were all young females, singing to honor their spouses that died of Karoshi.
Okinawans, also of course Japanese, live the longest happy fulfilled busy lives. That went into healthy eating and exercise and balance and friendships and relationships.
A study was done in Happy (not to the Okinawans), electrodes applied, to measure the brain activity of good thoughts. Good thoughts being gratitude. They showed the ability to produce dopamine by expressing gratitude. They also showed the rise and impact between folks assigned to list weekly their gratitude list and the marked difference and rise, when it was done daily. But the big kicker, the #1 thing in alighting the brain with all sorts of goodness and the very greatest measure of happiness was...Acts of Kindness!!!
When they showed the incredible impact that acts of kindness have on the brain, connected with highest rate of happiness...I thought...The Gospel is so true!!!
Weren't we just challenged in December to focus on acts of kindness??
These two Documentaries added a bit more to my understanding of Men are that they may have joy. More and more I see that joy is possible no matter what sort of things are going on in our mortal trek.
Way to much written here but sending it out anyhow.
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