Stil Here ..Still Going Home Soon!

Hello all my friends..so sorry for the long time writing...can you believe it! I forgot again how to log on!!!! duh...but here is the scoop!

It is very interesting how the mind works..from the beginning 99% of the rehab focus has been on the legs.must get walking! and I am very happy to report that along with all your love prayers and support and rehab I am up and walking with some support from a walker and a cane. I still have no or little feeling in my legs but I know that will come in time. However the spinal cord also connects the Gastrointestinal system ie in my case the bowels..usually not a topic for general conversation but let me tell you in my room (God help me there are 4 of us and I say this as a prayer..even though I have good roommates living in a ward for 4 months is a learning experience! enough said! haha) the general topic of conversation is "what we are putting into our bodies ie meals and when and how it comes out! Nothing is sacred...haha

Anyway the incomplete break has affected that part of my system and it is just not working 100% and that is why I am still here.... as for when I am getting home I really don't know...after 6...count them 6 discharge dates I will hear of no more...when I am in my front door that is the date! But being here has offered me many other advantages and opportunities...The Universe has a plan and I am just going along with it...how about this ....one of the Dr's (one I really like!) is Polish...my dear friend Annemarie from Truro has a Polish daughter-in-law named Sawa..her mother is here for 3 months from Poland and speaks little to no english so at a Polish Festival AnneMarie, Sawa and her mother & I went. Dr. Uva (sp?) was also there and I introduced him to Sawa and her mother ...turns out they are from the same city in Poland! cool eh it gets better...in a city of 300,000 his father lives just down the street from Sawa's mother! and she is going to take something from Dr. Uwa back to his father for him...coincidence...I think not!

The next thing I am going to tell you is because I know you will all understand that I tell you to help you understand why I am still here and not coming from ego...( I am embarrassed to tell you but that is ego...isn't it)

There were 2 things...the OT (occupational therapist) was talking to my roommate across from me and my roommate was telling her how she had been in so much pain the night before and I went over and did some Reiki and she was able to go to sleep. the OT said to me "you are a healer..." I said even though I don't care for the term healer yes that is what I do and I am sooooo ready to get back to it...she said" you are all ready healing and have been doing alot of healing all the time you have been here...." I was blown away but said thank you... it really made me feel good and honestly I think that is part of why I am here...I have gotten to know many people and maybe have helped some either at a mind, body or spirit level....it totally humbled me.

Then another day during a conversation with the social worker...she said something like "any hospital would be happy to have you as a patient you do so much good here....again humbled would be the right word here.....

There have been many other situations which help me understand why I am still here...and I am grateful for the opportunities offered to me. God's ways aren't so mysterious if one just lets it happen and goes with it. I have learned a lot here and am truly thankful.

I have really gone on here haven't I....well another dear friend Jennifer...has encouraged me to write more and I am trying to do so....

I ask that you continue to pray for me (body & mind & spirit...) I promise to keep up my blog just as often as I can......I really!!!!!! love you all..good night

Test blog

Hello everyone,
I am just testing the blog entry for Ruthie. She will be back soon :)

Hi, I want to echo Deanna's thanks,I have put a letter of appreciation in the Berwick paper but for those it is intended and haven't seen it I will be putting it on FB. I t will be a few days though because i am back in Rehab counting the days...ahhh about 4.2 days but who's counting! I don't have my personal computer here this week but will try to get on the Rehab one at least once a day. I am so very excited about being home! My stamina is still not great (I found that out this weekend...)but hope to see you all at some time or other. I will be continuing my physio in Berwick so I will be still working (not that that will ever end! haha) .

I am not sure what the future holds for me but I am excited about it and am really just focusing on my continued healing. I have learned many things on this Journey and am still processing a lot of it...but I do know!!! that I am blessed with wonderful amazing friends who I will never take for granted and for whom I will always be there for them...

I love you all!

Home for the Weekend!

Hi all, I am home for the weekend, in my own home! yeah! Then back to the Rehab for 5 more days...thanks to my wonderful frind Linda Rozee who has spent the last 2 nites here and cooked us a wonderful supper last nite and Carrie Purchase who is spending tonight with me. They are not just here for social purposes but because I can not do every thing yet and they help me alot as well it allows mom to sleep better! she is such a mother..worries a lot but I love her soooo mch and Dad as well!

I have so many thoughts I'd love to share with you all, I am relly trying to sort them all out...I have to leave in a few minutes to attend David Fullers funeral, such a kind and gentle soul butso sweet...gottoa run more later

New Discharge Date

Hi folks, well as they say, "the best laid plans of mice & men" new discharge date is July 03/09. They feel they want to do a few more things and that is ok with me...I want to be the best I can when I go home...I just have a few moments as I have to go for physio...but wanted to let all and sundry know...love to all

At long last Virus Free!

Hello all, it has been some time since I have been able to blog, computer virus and other computer problems but that is all in the past!
I continue to heal and look forward to going home. This weekend the 19th was my original discharge date but it has changed, I will be going home this weekend the 19th to my home, to spend the weekend seeing how I get along with things. My very good friend Linda will spend Friday nite with me which makes my darling mother happy (and me too). and then home for good June 26th.
What a trip this has been, I originally thought I would be writing profound thoughts on this blog, but that hasn't been the case, the reason being is that there has been so much going on here and the focus has been on healing and getting stronger. Learning to walk is a very complicated thing. Now that I am getting around to thinking about going home away from the safe protective enviornment of the Rehab...well lets just say there is alot to think about....the neck is fine according to Dr. Oxner, who besides being a brilliant surgeon he is tall dark and handsome and is a sweet man, and so is the back which according to him was "smashed" (he might not have said that word but something similar if not so dramatic hehe.)
But I still have lots of healing to do, for example, I am numb from the chest down (just under my breasts) I really didn't give that much thought till now but I have to be very careful about heat and cold, cuts and thumps along the way, nothing that can't be done but something to think about. It will most likely get better as recovery can go on for 24 months after the accident. I will have to sell my car which is a standard as I would not trust my left leg to handle the clutch safely, and I swore I would never have a automatic car.....never say never! haha

I have been thinking about all the things which have happened since the accident which people would put down as "coincidence" or "small world" but I see the Universe "handling things" I don't always understand why or the purpose of the "coincidence" but trust the Higher Power does. I am compiling a list which I will blog when I am finished...so amazing. I will sign off now but stay tuned I am up and running again and will keep in touch.

Love to all....

No Worries

Dear Friends,
I am just posting a quick note for Ruth.
Her computer seems to have a virus and she is unable to log onto her blog.
Rest assured she is doing FINE!!! Her neck brace is off, she is slowly on real foods and is getting excited to be going home on June 19th with no chair.
Her spirits are great and she is still feeling blessed.
I am sure she will be back online very soon!!
Deanna