I've been musing, editing and weaving this blog post for months now. It's never seemed quite right and I've not been able to figure it out other than this is about Beauty from Ashes, something amazing coming from a place of darkness or death. It seems lately that most of the things I struggle with are brought to the surface, bringing to mind an obvious cliche of boiling impurities out of metals to … [Read more...]
Not There.
April 30, 2012 by · 3 Comments
Last week when Bear had surgery, I steeled myself. I just can't go to that mysterious there sometimes. There is weakness, there is statistics and there is my grief, ready as a wet woolen blanket to be thrown back on all over. When he was wheeled away on the almost comically over-sized hospital bed, I swallowed the lump back and turned away. NO. When the nurse came to say he was in surgery, … [Read more...]
Medical Update (actually good news!) :)
September 9, 2008 by · 4 Comments
the lady from Summit's eye doctor was misinformed about him NEVER OPERATING at another location. She was wrong about him being inflexible. She was wrong to tell me to "find another doctor because there was nothing they could do about it".Wrong can be so Right. Well, for me in this case anyways. His surgery is scheduled for a week from TODAY, next Tuesday. Cross your fingers, arms, toes, legs... or … [Read more...]
my life, my frustrations, my pain
September 5, 2008 by · 2 Comments
In the interest of keeping people updated on Summit, here's the latest:-His eye doctor, Dr. Brown, knew that the insurance that we had didn't cover where they operate and chose not to inform us until we had booked the surgery. We were referred to them to have surgery so I feel this is inexcusable. I say they knew this because they knew which insurance we had, a very common one, and they knew then, … [Read more...]