Category: dogs

Today is the last day of a very dark and lonely journey. Tomorrow begins a whole new leg of my travels. If I keep my feet on the path, my ear to the ground, and keep this body in motion…

Ok, enough with all the body part puns… I was attempting some humor, but my brain started hurting. It’s too early and I need creamer for my coffee.

Basically, Ima be eating junk food and gaming today. Distraction tactics are all on board to ensure that time doesn’t drag on forever. I’m no longer keeping fears at bay… now I’m simply too excited for things to be finished.

I am not a fan of waiting, as you’ve probably picked up on by now. Patience is usually sought after by most. Unfortunately, it’s in my nature to want instant satisfaction, so exercising some patience takes me a bit of work… hence the food, gaming, and bad joke writing on my part.

It’s all good! While my whole world is changing and getting brighter to me, it may not be as noticeable to you guys. All you will probably notice is a ton more writing, here in the Lobby…

Not Sorry!

Here, have a brownie…

He won’t bite… I made him double pinky promise! I can say that since he has an extra finger.

**Re-run**

Hey Pfhlurrt…

I’m cranky and I have cabin fever…

This is what I got when I asked my AI for a picture of a squirrel riding a lion… don’t blame me, it’s not my idea!

Even with one bad eye yet to be fixed, I can still see that this looks more like a lion had a kid with a kangaroo and got this CatSquirlion!

It did make me laugh and feel a bet better about being stuck inside…. how about you?

Here, have a snack…

Again, I have cabin fever…

**Rerun**

Hey Bob…

I think I want to invest in a really good pair of sunglasses! I feel like I should keep them covered in the sun… now that I am getting them fixed. It’s not that the brightness bothers me, but I don’t want to undo any of the repairs provided by my surgeries.

Call me paranoid, I know, but I don’t want to do this again!

I am now fully enveloped in Cabin Fever! Walking has been sidelined until the second eye is finished. I want to walk so bad, but I have vertigo something awful. My eyes are fighting over which one is supposed to do what, which is to be expected, until the second surgery on Wednesday. Knowing me, I would fall down a man hole while crossing the street.

Tomorrow is the last post op for this first eye, and then I will try to walk on my trail at least once before my next surgery. Taking it easy is not my thing, so I am stoked for the second eye getting a makeover. Then there will no stopping this girl from hitting the ground running… well maybe just walking … for now.

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.