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35 May 22, 2013
The
1st, 2nd and 6th
It
has been a long time since a wrote a blog since (Jan 1, 2013) that I must
apologies for not writing sooner. In fact I have not done much in the way of
e-mails or responding to e-mails or reading comments or Jokes or witty
comments, it has taken everything I had to just get through this semester.
I
have been dealing with so much stuff that I just could not take on anymore. My
doctor felt it necessary to keep trying to find that winning combination of
lucky pills that would make it all better. After the 3rd time of
trying a combination I told her for now think of it as when you get your
security code wrong 3 times you loose access to that account. I told her it was
for the same with me that was the third try there is no 4th!
I
was trying to deal with 4 major things at that time. The 1st was my
foot injury after healing one I got another, while compensating on side of foot
it created another injury on the other. This meant more staying in bed and
adapted transport, and for those who have never had the pleasure of adapted
transport if you want to go somewhere you need the day to travel. If it is a
2hr trip you can count on 5 hours to get it done. If you have a dog, be
prepared to share a taxi Car with 2 other adults and have your 80lb dog sit in
your lap, Great fun and stressful on me and the dog!
So
I missed some first very important dates and events. The first being it was a
somber moment when the date came for the 1st anniversary of death of
my very good friend Sylvain Downs, I don’t know how many times that I wanted to call him just to say or stop by
with Lucky our family still misses him. The next firs we celebrated Lucky’s 3rd
birthday on Feb 14 but it was his first with us. The next first was Lucky and
mine first year anniversary together as a team. We came together April 11 2012
and it has been great ever since.
We
did our first year evaluation on May 3rd and went great. The next
first was our youngest sons first year in College and although it is a special program
trust me there was nothing special about the homework. He worked hard to learn
and understand, he learned sciences, he had personal growth, he took two
college courses and did really well. He had some hard times but no matter how
hard or tried he was never quit! I have tell you this he is my Hero but to me
and Arlene all our kids are our Hero’s!
As
I am writing this Blog we are coming upon 2 major anniversaries. The first is
the 2nd year of the passing of my nephew Eric I keep his picture on
the wall along with Jagger because there dates are intertwined. The second is
the anniversary of Jagger and have to tell you that as sad as that makes me
feel, I see a lot of him in Lucky. I feel very privileged to have been a part
of all of them.
The
6 anniversary of, talking at the schools. I was asked to come back
and speak once again at the high school to the science class. The interesting
part of this was I have now spoke to every student in the school on personal
level.
It
was the 1st year for Lucky and they loved him and enjoyed hearing
about the whole process.
These
talks are really no longer about what it is like to be visually impaired it is
more about life and how you approach it. I talk about Eric and Jagger. I talk
about how Eric was and his stand on bulling and talk about Jagger and how he was
and on his lasts days made sure I got to the hospital and made sure I was okay.
People
, ask me what are you doing with your Certificate Pastoral Ministry? I tell
them sit in on one of my talks and find out!
I
will be blogging more now.
We
are on the Move once again wait for some more blogs we are doing our First walk- a-thon on May 26 2013 and we will doing it in our area from starting from our
church and ending it will be a 4km walk.
Here is a link to my online donation do
not let the 0 donations scare you because we have raised some money.
Oh John-you just can't seem to catch a break, and have a good, medically stable,year-with no heartbreak. It's been so rough-yet you just plow through it all as best as you can. We think you are amazing-as always, and this is a wonderful picture of you and Lucky.
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