How can it be that I’ve been with WordPress.com for twenty years? Now, I haven’t posted here for twenty straight years. I was posting elsewhere like Tumblr and Google’s Blogger platform among others. To everyone who has visited here, read my posts, interacted with me, and shared their stories I thank you. This is a great community. Blogging is very much alive in the hearts and minds of those who believe in its power to tell a better story and share more.
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My wife and I have been through a lot over the past 5 weeks. She had three surgeries to clear out an infection that was life-threatening. A one-week hospital stay followed by a two-week rehabilitation hospital convalescence has been a challenge for both of us.
Her care team in all three hospitals were true professionals and did a great job in getting her on the road to recovery. They were compassionate and competent. We are fortunate to live in a community with good hospitals, not everywhere has that.
I have had the honor of being her caregiver among other things. It’s in the husband manual in case you didn’t know. For better or for worse sort of thing. Due to her medical situation I have had a crash course in wound care and I think I am doing pretty good with it. We do have enough gauze to start on a mummy.
We have been blessed with gifts and help. From a furniture delivery to help with lawn care and a car battery and needed cash have been given to us. None of which we will ever be able to repay. This grace and generosity is because of our situation and for some reason I don’t feel worthy. Maybe it’s just my personality speaking but yeah, I can’t help but feel this way.
Our friends and fellow humans far-and-wide have been truly lovely. As I sit here on a Sunday thinking about everything, I am grateful, thankful, dare I say blessed. Yeah, all that and a bag of chips. Thank you, God, for making this all happen.
My wife has been in the hospital since Saturday with a serious infection that required emergency surgery. She has had a couple other follow-up surgeries to be sure they got the infected stuff out. It’s been a week we never saw coming.
The good news is we have employers who are understanding and compassionate. Our health insurance is good. The hospital she is at is a wonderful place of great doctors, nurses, nurse techs and other staff. A true blessing if you ask me.
In the hospital where my wife is a patient are other people and other families who have their own health struggles. My heart goes out to them. Many are truly suffering serious illnesses and have been there much longer. I hope there will be healing and comfort for all.
Everyone has a right to good, quality, life sustaining healthcare. That is something that has been fought over for years. No country of any worth should deny their citizens the right to live because it’s too expensive. Many countries around the world make this a priority. Let’s hope America one day will really do the same. Everyone should have life and freedom from unnecessary pain.
Improvement is improvement.
This question is tough because I cannot pin one restaurant down. I am a big mom-and-pop restaurant type of guy. Diners are my favorite places to eat because most of them serve breakfast all day long. However, I do like ethnic places like Chinese, Thai, Indian and Japanese. Lately I have been finding out more about Korean. I like food that is seasoned but not spicy so that is a consideration. There are several places I enjoy around my city that serve good food at good prices.
Friends, it’s been a few days since my last post. In that time I have celebrated my 27th wedding anniversary among just living the life. So, one could say no news can be good news.
I hope you all are doing well. Thanks for tuning in.
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