First of all, let me clarify something. A friend asked me yesterday if the radiologist put a little metal cap on my head to give me the treatments. Kinda sounded like a Green Mile story! No, I don't sit in a wooden chair, with a metal cap with electrical wires and I don't have a group of individuals staring at me and waiting for me to get what I got coming.
Here is how it works....With my head screwed onto the table so I don't move, and with a huge wedge under my knees so my back doesn't spasm, I lay there for 4 minutes while a big white wand type passes over my head from one side to the other and some green and red pin point lights go off and on. No noise, no sensation, no nothing, except hope....Itsn't weird how much damage radiation did to the Japanese folks? What God has made is in our hands, thats for sure.
I have been experiencing some slight numbness around my mouth and that is a concern that I will bring up with technitions today.
I have been asking God for communication. Something to let me know we know each other. Some proof that he cares. Some proof of a connection.
While I listened in the night for a still small voice, or searched the scriptures for a coded message, I was puzzled.
God came to me this weekend in a big pot of chicken cachitori, bananna bread with black walnuts, chocolate chip cookies, bread and wine at church, emails and photos of sunrises....God's creatures, with physical, touchable, huggable, intelligence and compassion.
God in all of us, connecting us to each other and to him.
So, how did I use the second weekend of the rest of my life?
I made a huge decadent dessert for friends who came to eat dinner Friday night. I won $300 at the corner casino and lost $40 at the other casino where friends and I went out on Sat. night. I had a red beer.. I walked the parimeter of my yard and saw, hollyhocks, bleeding hearts, tulips, daffodils and raspberries peeping through the soft soil, I washed lots of clothes, worked on Sienna's scrap book, sent thank you cards, sorted through photos, shopped for Easter, cleaned the linen closet and the med chest. Pinned a quilt, read three chapters of a dull book, shaved the hair from my lip and bought pink, pink nail polish. Probably some of the same things that all of you did this weekend.
I am leaving town tommorrow on a secret mission....later this week I will tell you about it.. It's a grandma story.
About Me
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- My book "The Bastard Tree" is still available on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com. I hve had a lot of positive remarks about my story and although I am not making money with it, I am glad I did it. It is one of those things that people always say, "you should write a book," so I did. I like to write and I hope you will enjoy reading what I post.
