April 2, 2006

  • Rainey's return

    Rainey and Ben are home.  She just came in after an uneventful flight.  They are both looking and doing great.  The only problem is that Ben has to get up at 2:00 a.m. to help a friend deliver the Sunday paper because the friend misses church otherwise, and he is one of the youth leaders.  I have the friend's younger brother in class, and they are a wonderful family.  (In fact, the friend's mother kept Rainey when she was a baby.) 


    Both of them report that the family in Mexico is doing well.  Papá was 90 years old, and Ben and I had a nice chat about good deaths and funerals and bad deaths and funerals.  Ben was a pall bearer for his Abuelito, and he mentioned how his father, Rafael, was


    I will finish this tomorrow.  I am about to go to sleep. 


    Nurse Cox, have I told you lately what a wonderful person you are???  When Lorena was in the different hospitals and in the nursing home, it was so incredibly wonderful to see some of her nurses and technicians come on shift because I knew that I could relax and sleep because Lorena would be cared for, whereas, when some others came on shift, I knew that there would be no rest during their shift.  I know that you would be one of the former, and I suspect that you are as much a minister as a nurse in the very truest sense of the word.  I am certain that your patients are blessed by you -- and to have you.  Thanks for your kind words.


    Mrs. Tiggy Winkle, thank you also.  So often your comments are just exactly what I need to hear and see, and I find them very comforting.  You have been a true and loyal friend.  Thank you.


    I have not had time to be on the computer much lately, so I beg the forgiveness of those of you who have been such staunch supporters.  I will be back....    Please forgive me.