AS I SEE IT

Key to relieving pain is long walk

I was sitting in the doctor’s office recently wishing the doctor would let go of my knee. It was my second visit for the same complaint. My knee hurt, and it hurt even more when he pressed on the sore spot.

Soup was highlight of day

Potato soup. That’s all it took to make my mother happy. I didn’t even know she liked potato soup.

Everyone's opinion counts in booth

Tomorrow I am going to the only place in the entire country where I am considered completely equal to the president of the United States.

Fear for daughter cut column short

Halloween is coming soon.

Time slipped away while caring for mother

Where did September go?

Family visits bring joy

It was a short note from a long lost relative telling me that she would be in town for the annual swap meet.

Return home met detours

Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.

Walk was filled with sunshine

It was such a pretty day Saturday.

She's not ready to make decision

It is such a beautiful day today.

Mom's care is in doctors' hands

What a week. It started off well and went quickly downhill.

Favorite books changed life

I am responding to a challenge to list 10 books that have stayed with me.

Birthday party is postponed

Today is my mother’s 86th birthday.

Sparrows have settled post surgery

“For better or for worse, in sickness and in health …” those words came to mind as I was setting up the Continuous Passive Motion machine this morning.

Scarecrow created a memory

I did something this week that I’ve never done before. I helped to build a scarecrow. This was the final episode in a summer long project working with a great group of kids and their garden.

Care is in capable hands

Here we go again.
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