Month: September 2019

Chuck and I are watching an old Kevin Costner movie, "Field of Dreams." Poor Chuck is chair and house bound. I think his belly hurts but he won’t say too much. He’s "tough"! Friends Dave and Drew (our new renter, Dave’s son) will be coming over later to plan the loading of the trailer with stuff from our sheds and carrying it to Lake Placid. This is not what I imagined. My dream was downsizing…. Instead everything seems to be going north and double hernias is the result. Hmmmmm. What’s next? I love the movie. Even if you have seen it, watch it again! Then go outside and play! Enjoy life. Thank God.

Home. When we were little we sang a song on what seemed like everlasting never ending car trips…. "Oh show me the way to go home…. I’m tired and I want to go to bed." It’s in our hearts and in our bellies. Finally, Chuck and I got to go home. He’s fine. In fact he got served dinner and coffee in his recovery room. They might have been holding him looking at his blood pressure that was a little high… which it never is… or they just wanted to let him sleep…. So. We are home on our easy chair and sofa watching a Mission Impossible. Totaly mindless and then…. we will fall asleep. … Let us thank God for blessings tonight! And let us wake up refreshed and go out and help someone! Praising and singing. God bless you!!!

Doctor said Chuck is repaired. Doctor will review all when we see him in 8 days! Chuck is in recovery and I have a book to read while waiting!! I will probably be awake for days as I’ve had 5 cups of coffee ( they have a machine that makes wonderful flavored coffees! ) If I were at home I would curl up with a book and watch him sleep. Here I have to let post op ladies watch him. That’s the hard part .. letting others be in charge!!! I’m reading and waiting until he is released. Thank you my angels for praying for success .. and thank Chuck’s guardian angel for being with him!!! God bless us!

Many of us spent DAYS waiting to see what Dorian is going to do. … I wrote about waiting, which involved packing boxes, watching movies, swimming, cooking and drinking wine! This waiting for surgery is different. First "they" strip you naked and give you a gown. "Don’t tie it up; we will be moving it"… Then "they" search for veins. Actually the "they" here at Baptist hospital are pretty girls. I think they do that so we will relax being proded and poked .. Chuck was so calm! I was the nervous one and I had nothing to do and no place to go. When they rolled him off to surgery… him sleepy, I wanted to throw myself on that bed and be the one under the warm blanket. It’s hard to wait when a loved one is in the eye of the storm. God be with my dear husband !!!

Dorian is expected to hang over Bahamas for a day…. That means serious flooding… The strongest hurricane ever recorded with a well defined eye wall. Very sad for small islands. Then the hurricane takes a look at Florida… a long slow look…. What’s going on at my house is moving. Our new renter Drew is going to move his stuff in to the bar room and he and his father Dave came to move our heavy stuff out of the way. We have designated all the stuff movers will move and all the rest of my stuff that can be packed will be packed into boxes for the movers. Then Chuck and I have to live here until the 18th… So, I am praying for a successful surgery for Chuck that he recovers from by watching movies, reading books and resting. Then the final move on the 18th. God bless us and God bless Bahamians and America.