The Law Of Love

"Lucifer is doing all that he can to divert us from those things of first importance. One of his most effective tools is to convince us that it is impossible to stay centered on spiritual things when the demands of life are so pressing.
"When a lawyer asked the Savior which of all the commandments was greatest, Jesus responded without hesitation: 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. … And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.' These are the great commandments. Upon them hang all the law and the prophets. These are the things that matter most. As we strive to live these commandments, the others will take care of themselves."
- Mary Ellen W. Smoot

Happy Birthday Honey

Disappointed

Don't let those smiles fool ya!

They are deceiving!

Harry got his PICC line in around 1:30 yesterday afternoon. We kept waiting and waiting to be released to go home. Finally around 5:00 pm one brave nurse came in to tell us that we were staying until Monday. The hospital and Insurance Co. could not find a Home Health Care Agency that would take a new patient on a Friday afternoon. Several said they would be glad to start on Monday morning. I guess that I can't blame them but boy were we disappointed. I didn't do so well "springing him".

I'm Springing Harry Out Today!

Can you believe it? He is a very blessed man to still have his foot and to be leaving the hospital after only 10 days. He has received many Miracles. I hope The Good Lord never runs out of them. Thank you for your petitions to the Lord on our behalf. We've felt your prayers and acknowledge the Lord's hand in all things. We are deeply greatful for His mercy and kindness.

He has to have a PICC line or a central venous catheter put in today before he can leave the hospital. A central venous catheter, or vascular access device (VAD), is a long, thin, flexible tube used to give medicines, fluids, nutrients, or blood products over a long period of time, usually several weeks or more. A catheter is often inserted in the arm or chest through the skin into a large vein. The catheter is threaded through this vein until it reaches a large vein near the heart. This is how he will receive his IV home therapy for the next several weeks.

He also has a wound care vac attached to the top of his foot. This will continually pull any fluid and infection out. Dr. Brooks says that this speeds up the healing. We still do not know how this happened nor do the Doctors. Apparently his foot abscessed and the abscess blew up.

I'm truly surprised and delighted that he will be home to celebrate his 55th birthday tomorrow! Yall have a fun and blessed weekend!

Gave Up The Ghost

Kicked the Bucket

Bit the Dust

Succumbed

Expired

Departed

Passed Away

Croaked

Deceased

Perished

How ever you want to put it!

Mr. AT&T was here yesterday

morning and the telephone

wires in my house have pretty

much taken their last breath.

My options are to hire and electrician to rewire my house on the inside or Mr. AT&T can drill a hole right thru the wall and run one line to the phone box outside. But that only takes care of one jack. But at least we would have one land line that worked. With everything that is going on right now we are planing to grieve silently and let this one go for a while. So if any of you need us and can't get us on the house phone use our cell phones. Thank you!

Now on a different note,

see that cute red phone in the above picture? We had a yellow one just like it when I was growing up. It hung by the back door and if you wanted privacy you just opened the back door and pulled the long cord out with you, shut the door, sat down on the stoop and talked away! Brings back a lot of fun memories! I've always loved talking on the phone. As for Harry he can't even stand to hear it ring.

Child Stylist

Last week Shelby gave her Barbie a hair cut.
Monday night Shelby gave herself a haircut.
Check out Christon's blog
for pictures, details and drama!
Christon made her an appointment with Denise
to straighten out the whole mess.
This time I think it turned out
better than we could have imagined.
Shelby really loves her "new do"
She came by the hospital to
show Pop Pop this afternoon.

She wanted to feed him his soup.
But he put a stop to that.
I'm telling you, she is a thrill a minute.

SHE WAS RIGHT UP IN THE BED WITH HIM.

But he did let her wash his face!

PRICELESS!

p.s. Christon had hidden all the scissors. Shelby pulled the chair up in the kitchen and used the ones out of the knife block. I would have never guessed she'd think of using those.

Do You Know What I HATE!!

I HATE This!!!

We've had some work done on our house this week and now that it is done, this is what is left all over every where! I hate, hate, hate it!!! Did I say I HATE it?
They also left nails all over areas that we drive the lawn mower, golf cart, cars and trucks on! They were very nice men and they did a wonderful job for us but I HATE what they leave behind. They aren't the only

ones that have done this.

Why is it most construction workers smoke?
My back hurts and I can't hardly pick them up right now but I'm working on it, one butt at a time!

Did you know, it is estimated that several trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide every year. That's billions of cigarettes flicked, one at a time, on our sidewalks, beaches, nature trails, gardens, and other public places every single day. In fact, cigarettes are the most littered item in America and the world. Cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate tow, NOT COTTON, and they can take decades to degrade. Not only does cigarette litter ruin even the most picturesque

setting, but the toxic residue in cigarette filters is damaging to the environment, and littered butts cause numerous fires every year, some of them fatal.

Sorry, I just needed to get that off my chest!

Have a nice day!

And The Winner Is....ME!

This came the day every thing hit the fan.

I've wanted to post this sooner but here it is!!

Scrappy Sue had a contest.

It was her 100th post giveaway and all I had to do was read her blog and leave a comment. Check here to see the cute way she chose the winner! ME! Yea!

This is a picture of the package

that came in the mail!

Look where Scrappy Sue lives!

That's right, New Zealand!

Isn't that cool?

So my package came in the mail
yesterday! (7/15) She mailed it June 20th.

It took almost a month to get to me.

When I opened the package

this is what was in it.

A post card of where she lives.

And this little package

wrapped so cute.

And this is what was in the cutely wrapped package. A New Zealand key chain and magnet. And the most delightful Cadbury Chocolate candy called Buzz. It's marshmallow covered with a thin layer of Carmel and then Cadbury chocolate! They were really good and light. If I lived in New Zealand I'd buy them all the time. Thank you Scrappy Sue! Now I can't ever say I haven't won anything before. Because I won this and it's fun being the winner!

Hey Yall

Things are still going well

for Harry. It's been a nice

peaceful, boring weekend.

Test start again tomorrow and

all results should be in by

Wednesday and that will

determine every thing else.

Just wanted to say thanks.

Update

Just in case your were interested Harry's surgery yesterday went well and the DR. said that he didn't have to remove anymore dead tissue. The swelling was down enough that he was able to close it up and put in a drain. While they were in his foot they also took some bone to run cultures on. The Disease specialist came in last night and said the cultures that they took Wednesday have still not grown any bad things yet. The antibiotics are broad spectrum and are really covering the infection. What ever that means. His temperature is still normal and all the Dr.s are optimistic. They still have him scheduled for the Nuclear test on Monday and Tuesday and possibly another surgery on Wednesday like the one they did today. This will be an extended stay. His birthday is a week from today. July 26. It would be great to be out of the hospital by then but who knows. Thanks for caring and checking back on us we really appreciate all the prayers and well wishes.

Harry's Nurse

Does any one recognize this great nurse?

It's Kaye Pittman.

She's a pediatric nurse at our hospital here in Brunswick. She has been Harry's nurse the past two days. Isn't that funny that they have him on the Pediatric floor? They only have one 16 year old and the other patients are older. It's been wonderful having someone we know and love taking care of him.

He had a real good day yesterday. Fever normal and everything looking good other wise. He is having surgery again this morning to clean it out again. On Monday they will do some kind of nuclear test that can tell them if the infection has gone to the bones. We are keeping the faith and taking each day as it comes. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.

When I got home last night I had 10 missed calls on my cell phone. In my hurry to get out of here yesterday morning I forgot mine and Harry's cell phones. Thank you for your calls and I'm sorry I missed them. I'll try to remember to take my phone today.

It's Friday so yall try and have a good weekend!

Hospital

My husband Harry is a diabetic. He has been since he was 18 years old. He hurt his foot a few weeks ago and he doesn't even know how he did it. He doesn't have much feeling in his feet. His foot has been swollen and we have been staying home a lot and keeping it propped up. He has run a low grade fever off and on for the last two weeks. Well today all things came to a head, literally. After going to the Doctor today, we learned that he has some infection in his foot. So we went from the Dr. Office straight to the hospital and with in two hours he had surgery to clean out the infection. He will be in the hospital for awhile. We are praying that there is no infection in the bones. We will not know if there is any for a few days. We could use all the prayers we can get. So I may be missing in action for a while. I'll still try and post some updates on his condition. I just probably won't have a lot of time to check out all of yours and leave you comments. So please forgive me. I'll be back soon. Thanks and my love to all.

Wordless Wednesday

More Apples Please!

OH MY GOODNESS!

Do you see this pretty little girl

in that pretty little green dress

and pretty little hair bow?

And do you see what is in

her pretty little hand?

Well let me give you a closer look!

Yeah, she found a "hooge" rollie pollie! (She can't say huge. It's the funniest thing because she has a great vocabulary and can say anything except these 3 words, punkum, nacums and hooge.) She loves rollie pollies and picks some up every morning. Well she picked this monster up and said, "oohhh, pop pop just missed this, he'd be so excited" I nearly cracked up. Then she looked up at me and said "God made it this way." Wow, she must really be listening in Sunday School. So back to the story, we were heading to breakfast at McDonald's and to play on their play ground. So I told her we would run by the shop and she could show her daddy and pop pop. She said, "and show Cheryl and Calvin too?" I said, yes and show them too. (they work in the office at the shop) And when we got there she marched right in and held her little hand out and show every one, that would look, her hooge rollie pollie. After we left that excitement she wanted to show aunt Jor Jor! That's just what aunt Jor Jor wanted, was to be woke up by a little girl at her door with a hooge bug in her hand. She opened the door still asleep and took one look at that bug and was pretty much grossed out. Here's Shelby just grinning ear to ear with her bug and so excited and poor aunt Jor Jor. She put Shelby back in her car seat for me and we went off to McDonald's. Both girls ate a good breakfast of eggs and apples and grapes. Then we played a few minutes before Shelby then wanted to go to her mother's office and show her and everyone there her exciting morning find. By the time we got to show it to her mom and listen to her scream, the poor bug broke in half. It was sad but in a matter of a few seconds it was in the trash and she's not thought another thing about it.

I guess that's the life of a rollie pollie.

Reagan with a little bit of breakfast on her dress.

After leaving Christon's office we went and borrowed Madi Kirkland for some more entertainment. Isn't Madi just the cutest brown eyed girl! Thanks Amanda, and sorry the bug didn't last until we got to your house.

You would have been amazed!