{"id":6989,"date":"2017-07-04T03:51:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T03:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2017-07-04T03:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T03:51:08","slug":"through-the-shadow-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6989","title":{"rendered":"Through the Shadow and Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here I am at last with something to tell you about some of my health issues.\u00a0 I feel like I took a slight detour with my life the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

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It wasn’t a detour I chose to take and it was rather worrisome despite all the prayers going up for me, but think I am on the other side.\u00a0 Knowing that millions of people suffer diseases all over the world much worse than anything I have ever experienced,\u00a0 I feel rather silly even discussing what was going on with me.\u00a0 As you read in my past post, I had a heart scare.\u00a0 A scare caused by something an ER doctor told me.\u00a0\u00a0 I have had more pictures taken of my heart than I had taken of me during my wedding! \u00a0My heart has been very photogenic the last few weeks!<\/p>\n

I have spent weeks thinking I might have to have surgery or a stent or something done to my heart.\u00a0 Well, today was my visit to the cardiologist who pretty much told me my heart was in excellent condition, my arteries were clear, my heartbeat was strong and my lungs sounded great.\u00a0 Sooooo.\u00a0 All that worrying for nothing.\u00a0 I still have the winded feeling so don’t know why that is continuing.\u00a0 The Dr. told me to start a walking regimen.\u00a0 So that is what I will do.\u00a0 Plus she took me off one of my meds and halved another one.\u00a0 The fewer meds I have to take, the better, I always say.\u00a0 No more water pills that made me, well, make more trips to the bathroom than I would like.<\/p>\n

Speaking of bathrooms, this arrived on our front porch this week.<\/p>\n

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The top for our bathroom cabinet.\u00a0 Finally.\u00a0 Today our contractor came with his helpers and a plumber and they finished my bathroom.\u00a0 So happy I can brush my teeth and wash my hands in our brand new sink.\u00a0 Now I have some decorating to do.\u00a0 When I get it all done, I will show you. I ordered a picture today to hang on a wall above the bathtub.\u00a0 I think you will think it’s appropriate when you see it.<\/p>\n

To keep my mind busy, I kept knitting socks.\u00a0 I’m getting quite a pile of them.<\/p>\n

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And finishing this pair.<\/p>\n

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My grandson told me he wants to learn to knit so sometime this Summer I am going to teach him.\u00a0\u00a0 He wants to knit socks too!<\/p>\n

I have been adding to my stash of yarn just like I use to do with fabric.\u00a0 Honestly, I have not been near a sewing machine for months except to repair some things.<\/p>\n

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Self striping yarn. It’s like a box of chocolates.\u00a0 I don’t know which one to take out first.<\/p>\n

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This brown and tan looks so yummy.<\/p>\n

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Then there is this yarn.\u00a0 Varigated and oh, so pretty.\u00a0\u00a0 I have a lot of socks planned.<\/p>\n

Our garden is blooming\u00a0 and we added more lilies to it this year. There is a place called New Creation Lilies that is in southern Indiana and they have fields of beautiful lilies.\u00a0 We went down there the other day.\u00a0 It was pouring rain and I almost told David to turn around and go back home because I didn’t want to make the people have to go out in the rain to dig our lilies.\u00a0 You go out in the field and write down the lilies’ names you want and they dig them on the spot.\u00a0 It let up raining a little so we continued on.\u00a0 We walked around the fields under umbrellas. It was buy four get one free day and I very quickly picked five lilies as the rain was getting stronger again.\u00a0 We sat in a barn and were kept company by an old black lab while our lilies were being dug.\u00a0 Chickens walked around free range around us.\u00a0 It was such a neat atmosphere.\u00a0 I could have stayed there all day.\u00a0 I hope to go back next year on a sunny day.<\/p>\n

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I actually got these lilies at a little grocery store.\u00a0 I have divided these a few times and have them all over our garden.<\/p>\n

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Phlox.<\/p>\n

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Hollyhocks and larkspur.\u00a0 I don’t know what that bush is called behind the larkspur.<\/p>\n

We sat out on our back porch the other day enjoying the garden and decided to start planning a little trip we want to take for our 49th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n

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We got the atlas out and started dreaming.\u00a0 We have been in almost all the states except Hawaii and it’s becoming harder to decide where we want to go. Next year for our 50th anniversary we\u00a0are planning\u00a0a long trip, but don’t know where yet and we are going to Walt Disney World with our oldest son, his girl friend and our daughter and her husband and family for nine days.\u00a0 It’s going to be a busy year and we are planning now.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve always thought part of the fun of taking a trip is in the planning.<\/p>\n

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We may just go where the wind blows us.\u00a0 Who knows.<\/p>\n

I want to thank all of you who said a prayer for me during my health scare.\u00a0 I believe your prayers were answered and for that I am very grateful to you and to God.<\/p>\n

Here’s to good health, trip planning and lily fields.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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