A Little Update

How timely that I framed the verse mentioned in the last post and put it in my sewing room/ office! In quietness and confidence is your strength from Isaiah.
I have had a doozy of the a weekend so
I am giving you a life update,
a reason for the timeliness of the verse, and
a mention of a few things I want to record.

Mother has been sick for a while. First it was a sinuses/ears which are an ongoing problem that rears it ugly head 3 to 4 times a year. Sometimes we catch it early and heal quickly and sometimes it gets her down bad. The recent bout got her pretty bad and then quickly on the heels of that the other recurring problem is UTIs. That one had settled down for about two years, but it got her down starting a little over a week ago.

Friday midday she agreed to go the immediate care but only saw a PA. They gave her an antibiotic and some kidney stone medicine. I ended up having to take her to the ER Friday night.

All these weeks of staying home and being good went out the window when you had to go to the ER. The cases haven't actually stopped here and I know of a person my age who was just admitted this weekend for the Big C. The only worse place would be the rehab place which is part nursing home. 

She stayed in the hospital until yesterday. She was on pain medicine and IV antibiotics and seemed much better when they released her yesterday. IT was determined she had a cyst and some blockage that obstructed the kidneys.

She is not so good today because of all the pain medicine. She is so loopy and has no idea what has happened to her.

That said, I am going to take a blogging break. I will be back down the road, but there is just a bit too much to deal with to put a coherent thought together and I think it will take her a couple of weeks to get back to normal. I often feel with each of these bouts she loses a bit more clarity too, so that doesn't help. I think she will bounce back in a few weeks as she has gotten this bad and turned it around. I am praying that is the case anyway.

I will be dropping in with my friends in this wonderful community each week to read and comment and I will do a monthly post to update you. I was trying to do a weekly post, but I feel I need to just withdraw and focus on family.

That verse is just what I need to do right now...
Be quiet and have confidence that God has all this in His hands and He knows best. I intend to just focus my energies there for a few months.

To document a tad bit of life in other areas.... Coach Pat Dye passed away yesterday. I sort of expected it when he was hospitalized a few weeks ago and the last time I saw him he looked so feeble, but it was still a shock. To Auburn people my age he was a ICON. He came to Auburn while I was there. We loved him and he was a prominent part of our household life. We were DYE-hard Auburn fans.

The times we are in make it hard to even mourn a loss properly. Now he is not a family member, but still such a part of your life like any leader figure would be and you need to catalog those memories and thoughts.

I got my blue jays back from the framer. Jeff has determined that putting them in a bedroom is not proper exposure for the mockingbird, blue jay, and well, I will let you see my third choice in a moment. I told him that was what I had chosen these patterns for so I will evaluate it all when I finish the third one.

As you can see the third one is a cardinal.  A completely different direction than I had previously mentioned. There is some thought behind it which down the road I will share. I stitched quite a bit in the hospital room with Mom.

Thanks blogging friends for all your sweet comments. I am still not able to get my comments to come to my email, so my only way of replying to you is to comment back in the post which few want to go back to anyway. I have not replied to many from my previous post and will just let those go. I will try and get back to looking at things once a week and hopefully things will settle down and I can back to things more often.

Going Quiet for a few weeks,
Sandy