Horses

I an putting a picture of Cassidy here on my post riding the horse I had as a little girl. It has been with me for a long time, as has my love of horses. I have over 30 Breyer plastic horses; have owned a horse at one time, and love watching the races on t.v. I used to spend part of my time at the "ranch" watching and being with the horses there. Although I love them and think they are beautiful, I wouldn't suggest owning one, unless you are willing to spend a lot of time and money on them.

This one in my house has very little upkeep and brings alot of happiness to the grandchildren, especially the girls..I wonder why girls like horses more than boys? Let me know if you know the answer to that one!

my Big Vacation

I got back from Swedish Hospital on Weds. the 29th, after staying for 16 days. I have to say, that I don't remember the pain very much..I hear from Stu that the operation was more involved than they thought and it was a good thing they went in and got the "thing" out. It was a side effect of Pneumonia. So, now i have 3 holes in my side from the tubes they took out; a large incision from where they took the 'thing' out, and a bloated stomach from all the narcotics...other than that, I feel pretty good! I was up to walking 17 times around our hall in the hospital, which was a mile- that way I could forgo the heprin shots in my abdomen...yuck- that was the worst!

I loved the staff, especially the nurses; x-ray techs, and the doctors. Quite an array of personalities and specialties;

I can relate this to a vacation, because I got to sit around, get as much food whenever i wanted, from a menu, got care literally 24 hours a day and got to wear a "cute' gown and robe and slippers with rubber on the bottoms!

I got to meet a lot of neat people and came to appreciate the power of blessings, and people praying for me. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

So, onward and upward!

Here are a few pictures: a picture of one of the tubes they pulled from my side- the reddish part was inside(eww); the two machines(I had three once) that I carried around that were for suction on the tubes( notice my cool wheelchair that I wheeled them around in so I could walk my mile a day!); the board that named my nurse and NAC for the day, and my goals.

so there you go! (sorry for the double of one picture- don't know how to get rid of it!!)