Oct 18, 2025 – Accept
Yesterday Don and I drove to Atlanta to have lunch with my boys (Alex and Davis), their girlfriends, and the mother of Alex’s girlfriend who we hadn’t met yet. This was also our first...
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Oct 16, 2025 – Therapy
It seems that the sleeping-through-the-night song may have been a one hit wonder. However, four hours of uninterrupted sleep and waking to no pain is still better than waking every 3 hours to an...
Oct 15, 2025 – Right Hand
I, mostly, slept through the night last night, from around 11:00pm to just before 6:00am!! I woke briefly several times during the night, but was able to go back to sleep without getting up...
Oct 12, 2025 – Serving
Have I really let a week go by without posting a blog? It’s not because I haven’t thought about it every single day and even looked forward to exploring what God might have for...
Oct 5, 2025 – Nurturing
I started thinking yesterday that these first two weeks of rotator cuff surgery recovery have been like the first two weeks with a newborn. Every three hours or so there’s a feeding, but my...
Oct 3, 2025 – Dictation
I have discovered that you can teach an old (or rather a middle-aged) right-handed dog new, left-handed tricks. I’m brushing my teeth much better now using my non-dominant hand. After the shoulder surgery, I...
Sept 26,2025 – One-handed
I thought the 23rd was going to be my first blog after my shoulder surgery on the 19th because it was the first day that I felt like writing after days of juggling ice...
Sept 19, 2025 – Before, During, and After
I’m surprised and pleased by the pain I’m feeling tonight because it confirms that I’m doing the right thing going into surgery tomorrow (9/19 – I’m writing on the evening of 9/18). I am...
Sept 18, 2025 – Thankful Awareness
I did the first night of the home sleep study last night (my insurance didn’t approve the lab version, but I actually preferred easing into the evaluation this way because it was less intrusive)....
Sept 17,2025 – See God in Everything
Our Japanese friend, Miko, flew in yesterday morning to pay her respects at Daddy’s grave. While I was waiting at the bottom of the escalators that the passengers come down, a mother and 3...