I know it has been a while since I posted and I suppose the reasons are:
1. I did write a blog, but somehow lost it in cyberspace and could not recover!
2. Became so discouraged with the loss that I put blogging on hold ( it was a good write!)
3. At the beach over Easter, and too preoccupied with visiting to write!
4. Returned home after a week, and with much to do, time was a problem!
5. Finally, at the end of April, wanted to write before this month ended!
So, there you have it....five reasons for not blogging when you and I both know that it is mostly laziness. There is something about writing that never ceases to amaze me. The more I write, the more I desire to write, but once I get out of the habit a lot of time will pass and I must work at getting the written words to once again convey my thoughts. An example is: this past sentence had to be written twice because my fingers kept hitting the wrong keys!
Anyway, to bring you up to date on what is going on in our lives:
Lee had his four month check @ Duke last Wednesday and had a wonderful report! He will return in August for another check. He is so amazing! Hard to believe where he was this time three years ago when he was mostly bedridden, struggling to breathe on very high concentrations of oxygen, tethered to O2 with a fifty-foot line, and willfully struggling to acquire more feet in measurement of walking so he could return to Duke for a lung transplant! Unbelievable!
Today he is a healthy, happy fellow. He has been busy gardening, working the bee hives, fixing tractors and lawnmowers, and watching for the many swarms of bees that have parted their former places of habitat to land in his many orchards behind the house! So far, he has caught eight swarms of bees! He kept two and gave the others to neighbors and friends.
He left earlier this morning with a list of errands. He has been the president of his high school graduating class and is actively planning their 55th class reunion in August. I help as his private secretary, taking his notes, rewriting, typing and printing. Yesterday I reminded him that during the day I had worn the many hats of : Nurse, private secretary, chef, housekeeper, etc.....the list goes on.....................
We were planning to have our third reunion at the beach with our lung-transplant friends, but had to cancel and plan for a later time because of something I need to do.
I , along with my ENT surgeon, have been keeping watch over a thyroid condition for the past five years. Unfortunately, one of the six nodules in my multinodular goiter has increased in size and now has microcalcificaion in it. Anyway, I will be having a total thyroidectomy on Wednesday, May 1st. This has been anticipated, but somehow I kept hoping it would just go away! Not to be. So, Lee is able to do a lot of things now and one of those will be to take care of me for a few days. Of course, we have a big family and the children are always willing to step in and help.
I will try to write again, after the surgery. Having some time on my hands for a few days should allow for more blog reports!
More Later................................................Brenda
