Venturing out

I'm venturing out to run an errand for Tim today and to go to the doctor and to see two client...Hope I mkae it through the day. Surely has been a nice week of laying on the couch an playing on the computer! But alas, I guess all good things must come to an end. This experience has really made me understand why people with back pain get hooked on prescription meds so easily!

Can you believe it?!?

We were sitting at the breakfast table this morning and Tim reminded me that a compression fracture makes me shorter! SHORTER! Can you believe that? I think I'll ask Dr. Cole if he can put me on some kind of stretching table to stretch that back out and make add an inch or teo while he's at it! Maybe just enough to more evenly distribute this belly fat!

MRI

Dr. Cole sent me for an MRI yesterday. The long and the short of it is that I have a compression fracture (I think that's what they called it) and a couple of little bits of bone broken off but none that are in danger of damaging my spinal cord, so I just keep doing what I have been doing. Resting...I'm geting all my playing on the computer caught up without feeling guilty and napping during the day. Next week I will go to see clients when I have them and stay home and rest when I do not. What a life!

Good bye car, God bye dear friend

Well, this weekend has been a bitter sweet one for me. It started on Thursday night when I followed some folks from Sycamore View down to Ecru, MS (near Ponotoc) to the visitation of Linda Rogers and Tony Horton's father. Tony was my first camp love. Linda and I went to church together for the last 20 years or so. Her daughter, Jessica, and Joe(y) grew up together. I would not have know Tony if I had run into him on the street. He does not have one hair on his head but then again, he has not put on nearly the weight that I have, but he did say he would recognize me with my dimples....we had a good visit catching up with each other.

I left there and went to Corinth so that I could stay with Mama on Friday morning while Mutt had some tests run. I spent the night with Diana. In my hurry to get to Mama's, I lost control on a curve...it had just begun to rain and I couldn't make it. Your mind really thinks weird things at times like that. When I finally realized that I wasn't going to get contol of the car again, I just closed my eyes and let go of the steering wheel. I thought, "I'm going to have a wreck." I don't remember anything else until I came to a stop hanging upside down in the seatbelt. I remmeber thinking, "Am I dead or alive?" Since I could think, I decided I must be alive and I let myself out of my seatbelt. The passenger side window was broken out so I wiggled my way over to there and looked at the field and thought, "If I crawl out there, I'm going to get muddy...but if I stay in the car and the gas tank blows, I'll die, so I think muddy is better." By then several men were there asking if I was ok. I told them I thought I was. I could walk and move all my limbs...One of them crawled into the car for me to get my purse so I could call my sister an she called my brother who called the HWY Patrol. About that time. Billy, Diana's boyfriiend who was coming to do yardwork in her yard came up. I have never been so glad to see anyone in my life! He took me to his back seat and told me to lay down and rest. The patrolman didn't give me a ticket. He said he figured my day had started bad enough already. But in truth, I was really blessed because I went right between a sign post and a light pole and didn't hit either. The air bag didn't even deploy. The top didn't cave in. I have a cracked verterbrate in the upper lower part of my back which is pretty painful, but is getting better and the dr. put me to bed for this week. I can get up when I want to but he said not to over do it. I only had to take pain meds once today so it's getting better. I got Napoleon at the Toyota place to order me a new car just like my old one. It should be here in a couple of weeks,,,now if my insurance totals the other one. The patrol man and the wrecker guy both thought it would be totaled. I don't know if I'm more upset about my back or about my car!
Robiin, my brother, took photos with my phone but I don't know how to down load them to the computer,,,If I ever do, I'll post some,

One more sad note, My freind, Evelyn Tucker, died a couple of weeks ago and her son didn't let anyone from church know until it was all over and done and she was buried, He cut her off from all her friends for the last few months and now this,,,I just can't understand. But I surely did love her and am glad that she is no longer suffering in this world! I will see her again one day!

Tim's skiing

I've talked to Tim once and gotten a couple of e-mails from him. He sent this photo of Joe. He says that Noah (Cathy's son) skis straight down the moutain just like Joe did when he was that age and he is loving it and Cathy is enjoying it, too. I'm glad they are all enjoying it. I enjoyed sleeeping until I woke up this morning with no alarm to wake me up. I will have to get up in a little while and go to the office but I'm in no rush today!

It's Quiet Again!

Well, the Harding Grad Students have gone. Twelve students and one teacher from Texas A&M spent the night last night. They are going to be working at LeBonheur this week. The rest of the week they will be staying at Germantown Medothist Church in the gym. I enjoyed having them all here. Now the house is all quiet again. Tim and Joe are gone to Pagosa Springs to ski with the church group. Cathy, Tim's youngest sister and her son, Noah, are with them. the church group will join them tomorrow. And I am enjoying being in the quiet of the house all by myself. I my even take a Sunday afternoon nap and get back that hour of sleep that I lost last night. Later today I'm going to Mamie's (my cleaning lady) surprise 70th birthday party. I'm giving her the picture that Tim painted of her. I hope that she will be pleased with that. I usually put extra money in her envelope on the day she works around her birthday but I didn't this time...she pobably thinks I forgot about her.

Laura's birthday is Tuesday. Happy Birthday, Laura Lou! Hope you read this because I haven't gotten a card in the mail. I did get your package from Ghana in the mail. Hope you got it.

Beckie, I hope you are having a wonderful time in Greece and Italy!

I have this wonderdul Caramel Almond Crunch ice cream that Tim bought me before he left....that might be my entire diet this week!

We have three Harding Grad students here this week taking short courses. Tim is enjoying telling to them about his painting. they are enjoying his coffee machine!

Quite weekend at home

We are enjoying a quite weekend at home and it is really nice for a change! We had home Bible study here last night and the night before, we had Mike Tinker, who was in a lot of my counseling classes come over to spend the night. He had something to do at the grad school on Thursday. It was great to see him. That is the one thing I miss about school is seeing all the kids. We are about to go to the office and do an interview with the lady from the Bartlett Express about our Ghana trip and then going to a movie this afternoon. That will be very enjoyable! Don't think I've told you guys that John was offered a position in Canada near Toronto...a Tenure track position and he is really excited. Laura thinks that she will apply to do PHD work in French. Joe has been working for two whole weeks at Fed Ex getting up and getting there all on his own. It's been wonderful! Hope you are are haivng a wonderful weekend, too!