Wow! What a crazy week. My family and I have made it through yet another crisis, my mother ended up in the hospital this week with a staph infection in the incision where she had her back surgery three weeks ago. My father had taken her into the emergency room with a fever and difficulty breathing last Sunday, only to be told she was having anxiety and depression, but when I saw them I realized that her temperature was very high. We took it and found that it had risen to 103.9. We gave her Tylenol and later Ibuprofen. Monday my father ended up taking her to another emergency room, MUSC, she was admitted and tests were taken confirming staph. Mom was prepped for surgery Tuesday and given strong medications. We have once again battled what could have resulted in a horrible tragedy, but were thankfully spared.
It has taken days, but mom is almost herself again, and Dad is taking great care of her. I have been enormously inspired by my parents and the love that they show each other and the care my father has shown my mother during this trial. It will be impossible to ever question the love he has for her ever. He still calls her his bride, to this day and means it, which to me is a lovely endearment. The sparkle in his eye when he talks about her makes me almost blush, he is my father after all. I wonder often if my mom even realizes how much my father loves her and talks about her, how much he thinks about her and cherishes her very being.
When my parents took their vows they truly meant them, they have gone through thicker and thinner, richer and poorer, illnes and health. My parents have seen the good times and the bad. I love them very much and could not be happier to say they are my parents and two of my best friends. My parents are my role models as a married couple as survivors for many reasons. I hope to survive the many trials of life that they have with the grace and honor that they have. They are proud and honorable and I love them, they are my parents and I hope they are as proud of me as I am of them. I have survived my difficulties because I had their love and I respect every word of advice and bit of love they have given me.
Faith
Wisdom
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
--Isaac Asimov
The Butterfly
"The butterfly is ever more blessed than other creatures of flight. Though all grace the heavens in the ecstasy of flight, the butterfly has known the drudgery of the crawl and the lonely confinement of the cocoon. His new found freedom is richer, wilder and more thrilling than life itself. This is the beauty of recovery.
--Author Unknown
To be nobody but yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~E.E. Cummings
Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the thing I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
You Are Loveable
We go back...and back...and back...through the layers of fear, shame, rage, hurt, and negative incantations until we discover the exuberant, unencumbered, delightful, and lovable child that was, and still is, in us.
-Beyond Codependency
--E. L. Doctorow
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
--Isaac Asimov
The Butterfly
"The butterfly is ever more blessed than other creatures of flight. Though all grace the heavens in the ecstasy of flight, the butterfly has known the drudgery of the crawl and the lonely confinement of the cocoon. His new found freedom is richer, wilder and more thrilling than life itself. This is the beauty of recovery.
--Author Unknown
To be nobody but yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~E.E. Cummings
Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the thing I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
You Are Loveable
We go back...and back...and back...through the layers of fear, shame, rage, hurt, and negative incantations until we discover the exuberant, unencumbered, delightful, and lovable child that was, and still is, in us.
-Beyond Codependency
About Me
Hope
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