The weekend is coming to a close. I would usually be getting the girls ready for bed now after family time weekend fun. But I am now picturing Mark reading the girls a story and with lots of love sending them off to dream land.
Speaking of dream land, last night was a better night. I woke once at 2:30. The pain was about a 7 on the scale. Instead of calling for more pain killers, I decided to do some deep breathing and make use of some of the 'spiritual' / mind disciplines that I have read up on over the last 15 years.
My favorite book in this area is by Louise Hey - You can heal your life. I have read this book dozens of times. Visualization is what it is all about. Once again, it is in the mind. So back to me in bed with pain at 2:30. I am breathing deeply and imagining all the healing and strength is flowing through my body. I concentrate on my right arm, hand and leg. I can actually feel tingling feelings running through these parts of the body. It must have done the trick, cause the next thing I know, it is 6:30am.
Staying with the spiritual side of things. Are the things that happen to us fate, do we have prior knowledge in some sense? I ask this cause for the last 2 months or so I have been telling Mark that I have a bad feeling. Like something bad is going to happen. Also that I have been having these flashes come into my head that I am in an accident - more like a car crash of sorts.....who knows if this was a kind of preminition, or just strange things in my head.
One of the nurses helps me shower in the morning. What a wonderful feeling to have a proper full body shower!! I feel good, but am very tired. Not much energy today.
Need to find a name for all of my fellow injured people here.......As Eden pointed out, we all have wheelchairs....So I will call us.... wheelers.....So a group of wheelers organized a group breakfast of 'jahnun' - a thick pastry and butter that cooks over night and is eaten with crushed tomatoe. This is the highlight of the day for some.
Its Megans birthday today - 12 years old. So the Berzens and my family are coming for lunch. They bring sushi and cake. Wonderful.
Seeing Mark and the girls all of a sudden gives me renewed energy. They are simply the wind beneath my wings! Thanks Bett Midler (great song).
The afternoon is spent with friends and family coming to visit.
Shirley, my boss brings gifts for the girls which makes their day. The support she offers is amazing.
The focus of conversations is how fragile life is, how accidents happen, etc etc. All of this is true and I suspect I will be used as an example in many future conversations......I have a friend who fell of a ladder and.......
My fellow wheelers mostly have simple stories.
Iris slipped on gravel on tiles in a shop
Orna slipped on a few drops of water
etc etc etc
Slowly the family and friends say their goodbyes......tomorrow is my first day at school so to speak.
Getting ready for the night pain killers. Drugs can be wonderful!!!
Goodnight.
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