February 15, 2011

• My Bucket List

  I don’t have much to write about.  Life in bed doesn’t bring that much excitement into one’s life!

  Staying in bed is the key to my recovery.  So, I must obey the doctor.  He released me to do whatever I could do without negative effects.  If something is hard for me, then I’m to wait another week.  But, MOSTLY, I’m to rest in bed for 2 weeks. 

          

  I took some bird pictures before my surgery.  The snow was on the ground and they were hiding in the trees.  Hence, my pictures aren’t of the greatest quality!  The fact I’m an amateur photographer doesn’t help!  The birds prefer my neighbor’s yards.  I think the dogs scare them off from landing at our house!

       

  My camera is NOT by my bedside, encouraging me to rest and not jump up to take pictures of people and things!!!  Besides crowding my nightstand with things to help me recover, I also have a TV tray that Jesse brought in and loaded with necessary items. 

         

  I snagged another pink bucket (used for sponge bathing) from the hospital.  I’m not supposed to twist, reach, or lift/strain my body.  Everything has to be within easy grasp, or I’m to call in the troops for assistance!  My pink hospital bucket is well stocked with many things that are *NECESSARY* to me!  LOL!!!

                          

  I have two lotions that I love to mix together.  One is lavender and the other is lemon.  I only use these fragrances on special occasions, so my nose is telling me I’m being pampered through this period of recovery!  The two fragrances (lemon & lavender) blended are very soothing to me.

             

  I had my pocket size “The Message” book (with New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs) at the hospital with me, and it remains on my “bucket list” of necessary items!

           

  Much to my delight, “The Message” (OLD testament) arrived today from Amazon.com with another book, “With Christ in the School of Prayer,” by Andrew Murray.  I LOVE receiving new books!  I had ordered 4 other spiritual study books from Amazon, and they arrived the day after I came home from the hospital.  Books in the mail are like mini-surprise presents! 

  My bucket list also includes the remote to the TV, the telephone and my cell phone, Carmex (can’t live without it!), cardboard to write on (supports my paper), pens, a gallon jug of water (must stay hydrated!), and other necessary items.

  It’s my “bucket list,” so to speak! 

        

  Chirper continues to be my always present and faithful little friend.  He never tires of standing guard over me in bed.  It makes me wonder how many angels are standing guard over my life, angels that I CAN’T SEE, but who are sent from God to comfort me!  How many things is God doing in my life, right now, that I can’t see nor even glimpse in part?

              

  My sister-in-law from Tacoma, JoAnn, is here to help and my mother-in-law from Amarillo will soon be here to help, also.  My husband has been wonderful!  Such a sweet man and so willing to do whatever he can to keep me comfortable.  The girls are little angels and helpful servants.

  Yesterday, I sat at my desk a while and ate my breakfast while going through some envelopes.  Later I took a bath and washed my hair.  The combination was too much.  I shook like a leaf the remainder of the day and evening.  Who would have thought sitting at a desk and bathing would be “too much” activity?

  I slept for 12 hours last night!  I must have needed it.  Although I’m sitting at my desk now, I intend to to back to bed and read.

              

   
  So where are pictures of me?????

  I can’t take any of me, right now.

  Because . . .

            
  
  My two fake teeth fell out again!!!! 

  Remember when they did that during my chemo therapy?!!!  I had warned the anesthesiologists to be careful when inserting the airway during surgery.  I have 3 little sores inside my cheek where I bit my lip.  I asked for Vaseline to put on my teeth so I wouldn’t bite my lips and it took them forever to listen.  I assured them I knew the importance of not drinking before surgery, but I needed moisture on my gums and teeth.  I think when they put the airway in, my lip must have rolled under my top teeth, and then the airway rested on those two fake teeth.  Hence, they broke the morning after I arrived home while eating a scrambled egg tortilla roll up.  Yeah!  Not even a sub sandwich roll or pizza crust.  A simply scrambled egg tortilla!

  I can’t go to the dentist to have it fixed, because I’m to stay in bed, for the most part, these next 10 days.  Getting out and lying in a dentist’s chair isn’t part of the plan!  And, I’m not in any kind of pain.  Just ugly and looking like a jack-o-lantern!!!!

  I should say adieu and go back to bed.

  Be Blessed  ~

  
   

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