Category: babies

Live Wire…

Think of this week as sort of a traveling week… an adjustment to a new nomadic lifestyle for the Israelites. While they adjust to eating, sleeping, and living on the fly… I too am settling in to a new and foreign lifestyle. I am adjusting to living with and using what feels like a totally new eyeball.

As I try adjusting to the way I see things, read things, and even move and function… I recognize how much more difficult things must have been for Gods’ Village in Training.

As I’ve no full understanding of the hows and whys of my own actual eyesight restoration, at present I’m not nearly capable of exploring this part of the Israelites growth either. For now, we can call this week my extra long literary napping period. If things keep progressing as well as they have thus far, I anticipate being back in the Lobby with all my bells and whistles by next weekend…

You didn’t think that I would leave you without any Sunday music or our Potluck goodies did you?

Rise Up is our song this morning coming to you from CAIN… listen to the words and you will know why I chose it. God Bless!

This Sundays Potluck is brought to you by John Husband Medical Center… that’s my babe!

He got me my Twizzler Pull-a-parts for snacking so that’s first…

Then he got me those Coconut Prawns and dipping sauce…

From here, he made me a Cheesy Steak Melt and fries…

You gotta build your own…

Switching things up for me, he pulled out the skillet and headed for the breakfast aisle…

One morning he made me pancakes…

One morning he made Scrambled Eggs with bacon…

We even did a Baked Potato night…

FYI… he didn’t do all this in one day… I can’t eat that much at one time!

Now that we are all sufficiently stuffed with the heavy stuff, I will leave you with a light dessert…

A mint…

This has been such a crazy week! Between power outages, spotty internet connection, and a lazy eye… I am surprised to successfully get anything posted at all!

The biggest hurdle in all of this is motion sickness! Yup! I move to do anything and I feel like I am in the backseat of somebody’s car. I am happy to report that my right eye is beginning to focus on up close text. It never occurred to me that my eyes would be arguing, during this week of waiting for the second surgery.

I found it better just to stop wearing my glasses all-together, because even with the right lense popped out of the glasses, my left eye refused to focus at all unless I did a one eye squint. I feel confident that things will right themselves as soon as the left eye is corrected this next week. Homeward bound peeps, homeward bound!

Here, have a cookie…

Note To Self…

When it comes to encouraging words, the Psalms never seem to fail us, do they? I thought that this particular verse pretty much explains itself, but I’ll go a little further to say that I’ve risen and settled in many different places throughout my life and God has always been faithful!

Just the other day I was sitting in the dark, during our power outage, looking back over the years of my life. In all my adult years I have never been without some form of food and shelter… for myself, I learned that the idea of being homeless was a state of mind!

Yes, we were without a home… no, there was not a single night that we slept fully on a cold hard ground in the great outdoors. There was always an available couch offered, or the shelter of a car to hold off rain and wind.

Through all these months of lessening vision, growing isolation and complete reliance on another for my well being … I was never alone… ever!

Without the blessed assurance of being held in the palm of Gods very hand through all that… well… I shudder to think!

Amen!

P.S. I am sorry for any typos … using one eye for this.

This is the strangest experience EVER… but in a good way!

I had no idea how bad things were until my eyeball came back online. It is slow and fuzzy but I am able to read what is on my screen with my new eye. To most it might not seem a big deal, but I have worn contacts with a monovision prescription for over 10 years. What this means is that my left eye used a script to read up close, while my right eye wore the script for distance. The last two days after surgery has been an argument of the eyeballs! My brain shouts, should I read with this eye or that eye?

This morning, for the first time, I can read up close with my right eye… only for several minutes of course, and then it starts to get tired and fuzzes out, but that’s a start. Baby steps!

I know I was planning to do a current post for the Note To Self Saturday and Live Wire Sunday, but I am going to excercise some patience for my peepers and just wing it for the next week. I get car sick when I try to focus too much or move to rapidly. Light sensitivity is also an adjustment. I really didn’t realize how little light was getting in through that eye, until somebody turned the lights back on.

So for now I shall do the one eyed crazy chicken lady stare and allow my eyes to come back on line comfortably. Oh and guess what? I’m still pretty! For a bit there I forgot…

Here, have a cookie…

The Journey 12/07/2016…

Good morning my friends… this is coming live from the one eyed chicken… I’m Alive!

All has gone incredibly well so far, though I type this with only one eye. Doc says to let the eye rest a bit so I will end this on a high note … Soooo high that I can barely SEE you from up here!

Hugs and God Bless my favorite peeps…

Anxieties You Say?

Surgery Day… Yay!?

It is 9:08 a.m. and I am enjoying the quiet this morning without my coffee. It’s alright… I shall enjoy it immensely this afternoon some time. This is the fun part of surgery… the wake up but don’t eat or drink anything til after surgery. The only down side is the fact that my surgery check in time doesn’t come til 12:20. The truth is that I don’t normally eat during the early part of the day… but the no on coffee is not the greatest.

I will count myself lucky, however, as we spent all of yesterday without power, heat, or Internet so there went all my fun plans for distracting myself from dwelling on surgery concerns. It all came back on late last night, so I got a shower at least. It could have been worse, by far, but it was mostly just very boring.

I literally sat in the dark, in a chair, staring out the front door, for over 4 hours straight. I learned how quickly we humans go from happy and comfortable, to miserable and willing to shank someone! I’m just kidding, but seriously, I did have one of those try to remember as far back as you can experiences. The one thing I had that worked without power was my battery operated Bluetooth Headphones and a full charge on my cell phone that has all my offline music.

I listened to song after song that fully took me on journeys to all our past ups and downs… the times we thought for sure that we were done, all the times God faithfully showed up, and all the growing and learning that has been taking place. All in all it was a good day!

After my surgeries, it would make me very happy if everyone would start saying, “Lieutenant Toni, you got new eyes” ok?

I’m a little nervous, so there’s the joking that helps calm my spirit. Since you are my family, you have to laugh even if it’s not funny!

Attitude? Me? 4/20/23…