I plan to drive to Milton tomorrow.
I haven't driven for over a month.
Bern doesn't plan to stop me.
I'm pretty sure it will be okay.
"Getting back to normal" has been a long time coming.
Can I keep it coming?
We shall see tomorrow.
Keep me in your prayers....
Bern told me that Brigit, our dog, wouldn't come downstairs if not on a leash while I was in the hospital.
And now, being home, Brigit seems worried about me. She hangs around me more than usual and follows me wherever I go.
As I write this she's laying on the floor two feet behind me.
I take her as a good luck charm--and I need one!
Brigit is a dream....
Saw my personal doctor today.
She was very open and forth coming.
Answered most of our questions.
I'm hoping to get better each day. We shall see.
The news out of Washington about Epstein and his con-sort is next to nothing.
No surprise there....
In spite of the non-sense down in Texas, I'm feeling better today.
Legs have stopped itching. Back pain is less. Walking very well.
Bern is going crazy trying to keep up with my Meds and seeing contradictory orders from the doctors.
Alas and Alack!
I've lost all track of baseball and I'm not sure whether to jump back in or not.
Reading a book and a half a day--enjoying that.
But would like to prove to Bern that I can drive so I can cruise around town and do some stuff.
I hope to drive to Milton for church Sunday--really miss church and the folks there.
We shall see....
Just got home again after spending 5 nights in the hospital.
Low sodium in the blood and some other things.
Hard to be in a bed in a hospital when you feel fine--that's the way it was....
Swelling in the ankles and legs is gone. Walking better.
A whole list of doctors to see.
Pain in my back and shoulder from all the time in bed.
When will it all be over????
Sorry I missed writing on the weekend.
Did church Sunday and it went well. The folks up there in M. obviously missed me!
Much goes into getting better. I can walk pretty well although my ankles and feet are still swollen.
I really want to get back to driving. Hopefully, this week I can convince Bern I can do it.
I watch too much news! Any news these days is too much. 24 hours of Epstein and Trump is really exhausting.
I'd like a desert island with classical music--if I could have that.
Little chance!
I have to focus on getting better. Heart doctor tomorrow.
We shall take it one day at a time.
As always....
Sometimes, after a sermon, someone will say to me, "Jim in that reading today, I'm not sure I believe it's true."
I always shock them by saying, "I''m not sure I believe it either."
The Bible has been edited so much that often it seems like that game "Telephone" where a group of people whisper something to each other and then on to the next person and so on.
What the last person hears isn't even close to what the original saying was.
Just like that.
Wallace Stevens wrote something I always keep in the back of my mind.
Here it is....
"The final belief is to
believe in a fiction,
which you know to be a fiction,
there being nothing else.
The exquisite truth is to know
that it is a fiction
and that you believe it it
willingly."
Try that on and see how it works for you.
