Thank you!

My Christmas present of most importance came early this year. Every year probably for the rest of my life I will have an MRI done of my head. Today I got the results and there has been no changes since last year. Cleared for another year. This is my twelfth year of having this test done. My body has passed through twenty different conditions. Most of the time I think that I handle the stress pretty well, but the MRIs are the most challenging. I am grateful beyond words to be living and functioning in doing the things that I enjoy most. Thank you to all who show me compassion as I struggle. My faith, and especially at Christmas, is the foundation of my life.

Shopping and Walking

Well I did it! The clerk at the store could not believe I had not been to a store in about five months. For a woman who loves to shop this was a dramatic change in my life. Our daughter Anne has very graciously shopped for our groceries and other needs. By the end of June I quit tracking the days I stayed at home. Until recently we had not been to a restaurant. We did some takeout meals and that helped.

Many organizations started doing online meetings and those have been a wonderful resource. A key part of the days were phone calls, messaging and face time with family and friends. The hardest time were the days David spent in the hospital after a trip by ambulance. We are grateful he did not test positive for Covid19 and neither did our two sons who were tested. Our lives slowed down. I read a lot, cleared through some clutter and worked on some genealogy projects.

Somehow I have to make time to get out and walk. That is what I enjoyed most today. People were respectful, it was not crowded at the $ store. What drove me in was getting birthday cards for our grandchildren and some things to send to them. I wore my mask, kept my distance. I also did curbside pickup at the library and we kept our distance. I was impressed that she wiped down my card before handing it back to me. For those who are being conscious of how to protect others a great big Thank You from me!