Hello on Tuesday!

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I love this little bear and have used it before but since I like him so much I am using him again!!

I had a nice phone call from Glo,who has a blog over at Young At Heart. Glo is feeling so much better that she was able to do a new post. I was so glad to hear from her and she sounds wonderful! She said she hasn't felt this good for a year!! Great news!!

We both are enjoying the beautiful weather in our part of Missouri! Glo lives about 30 miles from me.She is ready to go fishing!! No kidding!! It is 63 degree's!!

Not much going on here today but I wanted to let you know she has a new post so you can read about about her health.

Another Blogthing ! Cozy Mysterys! A lovely Button for You

The Sunset Test

You Crave an Important Life

Your dream is to life a live a life that leaves a mark. You'd like to have a mission or journey to complete, even if it takes years. You want your life to be meaningful, and having a final goal brings you meaning. You'd like to accomplish something big, if only to inspire others to believe it can be done.

The Sunset Test

We are having one day that is so cold and the next day is nice and warm!
Do any of you all love Cozy Mystery's.I have found a web page with listing for all kinds of cozy Mystery's. I like the cozy's because they aren't as gory or horror mystery's. Here is the link Cozy Mysterys List I know my friend Jane over Cozy Reader likes Cozy Mystery's as much as I do!

This sweet button was sent in an E-mail to me from Shorty Bear! Thank you!! I think this is so neat that I want to share it with you! I love my blogging Friends!!

I am so happy to feel a little better and to be able to post a little more often!!

Prayer Request for a Friend

Are you Coffee or Tea

You are Tea

You are mellow and reflective. You don't allow yourself to feel in a rush and frenzied. You're likely to appreciated the ideas or connections that come up over a warm cup of tea. While you do enjoy the energy of a caffeine boost, you love that it allows you to take a break. You're not in a rush to do anything. You're content with your life, and in no rush to change it.

Are You Coffee or Tea?

I saw this and thought this one looks fun!! I love doing these !! It was over fifty degrees yesterday and now it is 27! Brr!!

I have a prayer request for one of my friends. Linda's brother Jay had a stroke last week. He is only 50. This is what his sister Linda wrote to me:

He is a miracle! He was only hours from dying with the amount of fluid that was pooling around his brain when they successfully got the shunt in his head to drain the fluid. He is able to speak, comprehend, moves both arms and legs! With our experience with our dad, this was such a huge relief to all of us.

His stroke is in the back portion of his brain and was very large. That part of his brain controls balance, equilibrium, and vision. Those are the areas he will need therapy to restore. His short term memory is also pretty fuzzy right now.

He did not have a good night last night. As his nurse was taking him down for a CT scan, they ran his bed into a wall and now his head hurts again. The CT scan showed a great improvement in fluid draining, but the doctor is leaving it in for 2-3 more days. They are also concerned that he doesn't have a lot of output from his kidneys.

The doctor took Brenda into the hall to speak to her. He told her Jay will be in ICU through the end of the week and in the hospital/rehab. facility for around 3 months and not back to work for probably a year. Jay and Brenda, like most people, survive on both of their salaries. Finances are a huge concern for them right now.

I know Linda's family would really appreciate your prayers for Jay. I had another update from Karen who talked to Linda and he did really well in Physical therapy today. In fact Karen left on Friday and went down to Texas to be with the family. She is home and very tired!! Their Dad had a stoke 10 years ago this month. Their Dad lived for several years after his stoke but his stroke effected his speech and his movement with is arms and legs. He is with Jesus now. Thanks for your prayers!!

Happy Birthday to my Grandson and other news on Monday

Happy 30th Birthday to my dear Grandson Brandon!! We just got this new photo of his wife Ale' and their only child, my great- grand son Mathias. He is 7 years old.They live in Guadalajara, MEX.They are missionaries. I haven't seen Mathias or Ale' for a couple of years. I would dearly love to see all of them again soon.

I had a wonderful phone call on Friday from my friend Mary from Mary's Writing Nook I really do enjoy hearing from her. She is so easy to visit with you would think we have known each other for years!!

Kelly is enjoying her SUV! She wrote someone an e-mail today telling them this car is up to date!! She told them this vehicle had wind shield wipers, the passenger side, door opens from the inside, it has heat and an AC and it doesn't leak oil and other fluids!!! This is what the car we had was like!!! She was being funny!! But it was true about our old Car!!

Nancy received a lot of Valentines and she loved them all! Some of her Dr's took the time to send her a Valentine!! She sent out Valentine also!! If she has said Hello to you, she says what ever Holiday is next, I will send you a card. Of course I have to filter though this or we would go broke sending out cards!!! If you sent her a card, Thanks!!

Amost time for Valentines!!

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Just in case I don't get to post on Saturday, Happy Valentine's Day to every one!!! Speaking of Valentine's Day when I was a little girl growing up on a farm in Iowa, my folks decided to sell the farm and go west for my Mother's and my health. We ended up in Hot Springs, New Mexico. The town changed it's name a few years later to Truth or Consequences for the radio program named that, with Ralph Edwards. But I digress! Which is not hard for me to do!!

When we moved there in February of 1946 I was in the second grade. On Valentine's Day I remember I got one Valentine from a little girl named Bonnie. We were so new that I wasn't on the list the teacher handed out for the parents. I remember that my Mother got me a huge Valentine with a fuzzy material all over it. I think I still have it somewhere in the house put away in a box.Many Valentines Days have come and gone since that one and I have received a ton of Valentines since then!!! It is the one that comes to mind!

On Sunday Kelly came home from church and said, "Mom" would you and Nancy like to go down and see Sarah. I said,"Yes"!!! Sarah is my son Bill's daughter who is teaching in her first school. She lives about 30 minutes from her parents! It was farther then I thought!!It is an hour and a half from our house to hers!! When we were almost there I looked up at the road sign and it said 85 miles to Springfield MO and I about flipped out!! But we turned off and drove 12 more miles West and we were at her home! She has an adorable apartment!! It is so nice and roomy and brand new almost!! It was so much fun to see her and how she has decorated her apt.

Nancy loved going along too, she likes to watch for deer, (bobcats! Yes, once Karen saw one!)turkeys,geese,groundhogs, raccoons, and hawks!! We saw geese flying, many hawks in the trees, even one flying down to get a field mouse. This was a nice outing for us!! It was a beautiful day on Sunday! Our weather is changing with wintry mix forecasted for Saturday.

The weather South of us was terrible yesterday with tornadoes in Oklahoma and TX. Several people lost there lives in this storm. My heart goes out to these folks who are left to pick up the pieces and who have lost loved ones.

Thursday!!

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This is how I'm feeling today!! Give me the chocolate and no one will get hurt!! I can't have sugar or salt so I am starting to crave both!!!

Our big news is Kelly has found the SUV that she was looking for these past few weeks. We have been with out a car for about 3 weeks!! It is not a brand new SUV just new to us!! Everybody has been so kind and given Kelly rides to and from work! My friends Jackie and Lilly have taken us to Doctors appointments!

Boy, do we appreciate their kindness!!!Wow!

Thanks so much!! She is getting a SUV because she can put wheel chairs and walkers into the back. She works in our home town, so she will have good gas mileage and her insurance won't be as expensive as if she worked in Kansas City. It is black and very pretty.

They brought it down today with the owner to see if I can get in and out of it with out a lot of trouble! I could get into it fine, but will need a small step stool to get out of it. I am used to getting out of Karen's truck which is a girly truck and easy to get in and out of it!

I will be so Thankful to have a way to get around in again and not have to bother our friends!! It is a beautiful day today with the temperature near 55 degrees!!

Awards and a new update on Glo!

I have been given so many awards while I have been ill. One problem with this is that I can't remember who gave them to me except for this first one!! I am so embarrassed!! I should have written the name in the script when I copied and pasted these!! The first one was given to me from Nancy over at Nancy's Nonsense Thank you so much for thinking of me!!!
If you gave me any of the other ones please let me know and I will put your names on them!! I think I thanked you for them, I HOPE!!! Be sure and take any one of these awards if you would like one!!!

I am going to call Glo today and see how she is doing. She came home one day this week. So that is good news!!OK, I have given her a call this afternoon and she is still weak. She still has her sense of humor!! She said she is still kicking!! She is waiting on her lab report about her blood work. She said to tell all her blogging friends "Thanks" for their many prayers and Please pray for her sister who slipped in the water and they think she may have broken her knee again!!

I am so sorry to hear about all the people down south of me who are iced in with out heat. My son-in law's sister lives in Mountain View AR and she will not have power until Sunday or Monday!



From Nancy

Sunday Night!

We are to get snow tomorrow and the next day. It has been so cold!! It was 21 degrees today but felt like 6 degrees!! Brr!! But it is winter and January!!

I talked on the phone to Glo last night and she is still in the North Kansas City hospital. Her heart rate the first of the week was 122 but now it is 46 so the Doctors are still watching her and she still is getting a IV. Thanks for your prayers for her! She sure does appreciate you all.

She was watching the Miss America Pageant last night and she told me Miss Missouri was from her home town! She didn't make the cut but I thought she was pretty. Glo said she watched her grow up. I lived in Glo's home town from June of 1953 to December of 1954. We move there on Queen Elizabeth's Coronation Day. I listened to it on the radio.

My Daddy didn't get us a TV until 1955!! I went next door and watched TV with our neighbors from time to time. I was so happy to get a TV when we did, and my Dad just loved it, I don't remember when Gunsmoke first came on but he loved that show. I was to old for the old Mickey Mouse show but I watched it any way!!!I remember watching Dick Clark and American Bandstand when it was new!!

Update on Glo!

I just got off the phone with Glo and she had her procedure yesterday. The surgeon took out a 10 millimeter stone. It was dark black. She said she is not in pain now and feels so much better!! Now they are working on getting her heart adjusted and the correct medicines. She said to tell everyone "Thanks" for your prayers!!!

It is a beautiful day and the temperature is 60 degrees!! It is suppose to cool off by tomorrow and have snow by the week end!! Boy, oh Boy, I am ready for some warmer weather!!

Nancy and I got out this morning to go to the Dr's office. She had a shot and I had lab work for my kidneys. I see the kidney specialist next week. I am hoping for a good report!! We both are feeling much better!

Please Pray for our dear blogger, Glo

I just had a phone call from Glo. Glo has a blog at Young at Heart. She is in the North Kansas City hospital.Over the week end she became ill and started vomiting up blood. The Dr. said she has a gall stone stuck in her bile duct by her liver. She had her gall bladder taken out 30 years ago. They were going to try to get rid of the gall stone today but her pulse went up to 122 and they weren't able to get it down so she had to go back to her room. She asked me to asked you all to pray for her recovery. I know how much I appreciated your prayers this fall and winter for me!! Thanks already, for praying for Glo!!

Saturday!

Girly Comments & Graphics

This is how I felt this afternoon while trying to get to a bunch of your blogs to say Thanks!! I just didn't make it around to all of them today but I am going to try again tomorrow!!

Since I have not been able to get out and about Wow!!! You all have spruced up your blogs!! Every body's looks so nice!!

The weather is beautiful today, it is 45 degrees here !!! I love it!!

Monday Morning!!

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Thank you all so much for your prayers!! My hand is much better! I am able to use it again!! Praise God!

It is time to get out all the yearly receipts for my missionary daughters mission organization! For a while a I wondered how that was going to go!! But I am able to use the computer better and I can do this!!

I had a checkup last week and my stents were all opened and working! My kidneys are still needing baby-ed and so I am trying to eat right and drink plenty of fluids! I just wish I like water better!!

Thank you for all your kind comments!!They mean so much when you are feeling not up to what you would like to be feeling!! But Praise God Iam so much better then I was!!!

Happy New Year!!

This is what I have been doing for the past week! Resting! This is a cute icon that Denise sent me a while back.Thank you!

I got my splint off last Wednesday and the Dr. said He wasn't putting a cast on it because my fingers were starting to freeze and not bend and they would end up like sticks if he did. I have had to soak my hand 2 or 3 times a day to keep it pliable. I just have to be careful not to knock my hand against anything!

I still have a goose egg on my hand but not so big now.

Thank you for your wonderful comments and well wishes for me and your precious comments for Kelly! She felt so bad about this!! But it was just one of those freaky things that happens!!

When I signed in tonight I see where Mary over at Mary's Writing Nook has been really sick. I am sorry to hear this I have to get all caught up again and see how all of you are getting along!

This week I go and see about the stents in my kidneys and how all that is doing.

Thanks again for all your wonderful prayers for me and my family!! I appreicate you all!!

I want to wish you all a very Blessed New Year!!!

Merry Christmas??? Even with what happened!

Yes, my hand is in a splint!! On Christmas Eve we were over at Gramps house. We had opened gifts and visited for a while. It was time to leave and I said"Kelly give me a hand and help me up. She has helped me up a million time before!!! She reached down and took my hand between my little finger and the palm of my hand and pulled! I said Kelly, that hurt!! When we got out and into the truck I looked down at my hand and there was a goose egg bigger then a lemon almost the size of a orange!!!

Karen said, "You are going to the ER"! They took ex-rays and I have a hair line fracture in my hand. They could not put it in a cast because of the swelling. Kelly felt S0000 bad!! Of course Kelly's siblings said, 'Way to go KELLY, brake Mom's hand on Christmas Eve!!

I have to go to the Dr. this week and see if they can put it in a cast.

Other then that I had a wonderful Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Glitter

Merry Christmas to all my Family and Friends!!! Wishing all of you a lovely Christmas with your family and friends! Many Blessings to everyone!!
Thanks to Karen who hacked into my blog site this morning and redid my header and back ground! What a fun suprise!!

Happy Birthday Kelly!! And No Sodium Diet means weight loss!!

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Happy Birthday to my Dear daughter Kelly! She has been a blessing to all of us in our family and friends!God gave her a servant's heart and a loving spirit she shares with all of us!

I am doing better and on this NO Salt diet and I mean NO Salt, well I guess I get some 2000 mg a day. But when you count them up they go fast!! The wonderful side of this is that I have lost 13 pounds from watching my sodium intake! The other benefits is that I got rid of the fluid on my lungs and can breathe so much better! The other is the swelling in my feet has gone down and this is really a good thing!

This is why I haven't been out visiting much, is if I sit to long at the computer they start to get big as balloons!!


I am going to try to start reading your blogs but not leave comments,and see how that goes! So if you have one of the counter deals that tells you who has been to visit you and you see I have been there and not left a comment you will know what I am doing.

Some of my blogging buddies told me it would be a little easier if I would visit 5 blogs each day and leave a comment and that way in a week or so I could make my rounds. So I am thinking that sounds like a good idea! After the first of the year I will see if I can do this!!

Some of you have asked about my special needs daughter Nancy and how her health is doing. We go to the Kansas City Cancer Center every other week since June for the lupus. Nancy's blood count is going up and this is good.

She really gets into the Christmas spirit because she is like she is between 5-10 years old, so she loves Christmas! She loves to give gifts and we have to hold her back or she would give everyone she knows or would like to know a gift!!But maybe she really has the right Christmas spirit!

Pictures of our Christmas Tree!!

I wanted to share the pictures Kelly took of our 3 foot live Christmas tree!! Kelly bought it for me! She has only had 3 live trees since she was born.

Yes, Kelly does have a laptop but we can't shut the lid or move it one drop or it doesn't work!! So we are just happy at this time to be able to have a working computer!! The tree now has pretty decorations under it!

This is my new, well new to me love seat that Kelly got me for Christmas. If I had known that our coffee table looked so lived in I would have picked up a little!! The Kitty Cat is Myrtle . She is Karen's cat but she lives with us! We have one more cat who is huge, Zeke . He has long brown hair and very gentle.

Have I shared that Karen has lost 115 pounds!! She is looking so nice! Kelly has lost 60 pounds! She looks great, too!!

Well, Boy Oh Boy, is this fun being able to post about something beside my health!!! I am losing weight too but that is because of the medicine I am taking for my kidneys.

I have been working on getting out Christmas cards and my special needs daughter, Nancy loves to send and get cards. All through the year when we are at Doctor's offices she asked for every one she meets and talks to for their address and tells them she will send them a Christmas card!! So,I have addressed 30 Christmas cards just for her!! She wanted to send more, but I had to cut the list down because of my health this year. It gives her so much joy to send these out that I can't bear to not do this!!

Update!

I have been to the Doctor's for my test on my heart and GOOD news! I have no blockage in my arteries in my heart and no fluid in there either! Praise God!
I have lost 10 pounds in 5 or 6 days so some of the swelling has gone down. I am breathing better and the top of my lungs are better! There were crackles in the bottom of my lungs but I am sure they will get better!
The kidney specialist put me on a 2 Gram Sodium diet which is 2000 mg a day and does that go fast!!! Every thing on earth as salt in it!! But I am following it!!
I really want to Thank you for your prayers! You all have been a wonderful Blessing to me!!

We were able to get a little live 3 foot tree up and decorated. When I am able I will post pictures of some of our Christmas decorations.
We had snow today!
I had a wonderful hone call from my friend
Mary on Monday! This was a wonderful gift of her time! I appreciated it so much!!! We were able to get to know each and it was like we had been friends for years!!
Yesterday Glo called me and this was great so I could find out how she was doing. She has had some serious health problems too. She is doing better.Praise God!
Blogging Buddies are the Best!!!!

Scriptures for Healing

Mom wanted to share these with you, a friend of ours sent these to her to build up her faith...

Psalm 30:2 (New Living Translation)
2 O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you restored my health.

Restore means:
To bring back to a former, original, or normal condition, to bring back to a state of health, soundness, or vigor. (dictionary.com)



Psalm 103:3 (New Living Translation)
3 He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.


Psalm 107:20 (New Living Translation)
20 He sent out his word and healed them, snatching them from the door of death.

(Amplified Bible)
20 He sends forth His word and heals them and rescues them from the pit and destruction.



Psalm 118:17 (New Living Translation)
17 I will not die; instead, I will live to tell what the Lord has done.


Isaiah 58:8 (New Living Translation)
8 “Then your salvation will come like the dawn, and your wounds will quickly heal. Your godliness will lead you forward, and the glory of the Lord will protect you from behind.

(Amplified Bible)
8 Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.(A)

Jeremiah 17:14 (Amplified Bible)
14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise.


Jeremiah 30:17 (New Living Translation)
17I will give you back your health and heal your wounds,” says the Lord.

(Amplified Bible)
17For I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord, because they have called you an outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no one seeks after and for whom no one cares!


1 Peter 2:24 (New American Standard Bible)
24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.


3 John 1:2 (New American Standard Bible)
2Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.

More Health issues!

I had my labs this morning and I was having a hard time breathing so I asked them to check my oxygen level and it was low! The nurse said I needed to see the Dr. and he ordered a chest ex-ray and it showed that I have fluid on my lungs.

He gave me a prescription for some kind of pills which Kelly will pick up this afternoon. Then I will know what kind of pills I am taking.

My kidney specialist is suppose to call this afternoon about the swelling in my feet.

I have to have a echo cardiogram the last of the week to be sure my heart is OK.

I sure am Thankful for all your prayers and your concern for me!! And putting me on your prayer list at your church!! You will never know how much this means to me!! I tear up just thinking about how much you all care about each other.

I am just going through a bad time now, but I will get well!!!