I’ve been running like a madman lately. The walking has been good for me – I’m almost down to 250 now! We had to take Andarea to the Emergency Room tonight, her ear has been building up fluid and won’t drain. She was in so much pain she was crying badly for hours. The doctor looked at her for a half minute, told her to quit smoking, and gave her some prescriptions. Have to find the money to pay for those…<\/p>\n
Frankie is at home again, and doing well. I don’t call her enough \ud83d\ude41 ah well<\/p>\n
Lenny has said he is going to fix his scooter and virtually give it to me. That will be a big help.<\/p>\n
I am taking a sabbatical from Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective. One member wants to do everything her way, regardless of consensus, and with that it has not been “support” for me. I hate being the stumbling point in the group, but it affects me more than the others. I love everyone in the group, but have to take care of myself — coming home from support group repeatedly in tears is not a good thing. Andarea has been wonderful, calming me down and doing the right thing.<\/p>\n
I don’t have anything but physical therapy on the schedule tomorrow… still have two loads of laundry to do though, and probably a few other things (like getting Andarea’s prescriptions picked up).<\/p>\n
Guess I’ll close for now.<\/p>\n
Hugs,
Me<\/p>\n
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Sand and Stone<\/p>\n
This story tells of two friends walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.<\/p>\n
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.<\/p>\n
The friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”<\/p>\n
The other friend replied “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”<\/p>\n
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.<\/p>\n
Take the time to live! Do not value the things you have in your life. But value who you have in your life!
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