If I had died in surgery my last words would have been. . . “chocolate chip.” It all began with terrible pains in my abdomen. After three days, my dear daughter-in-law accompanied me to the ER where I spent 6 hours having tests and talking with nurses, aids, even a doctor. They all noticed an […]

I can’t believe I haven’t written a blog for approximately 83 years!  Okay, apparently it’s only been six months.  It seems my life has been a haze of stress.  My most recent stress has been preparing to move from our home of 24 years.  I’ve been sorting, giving away, selling or throwing away stuff (I […]

Since it was discovered that Ron (my beloved husband) had an infection, he began several weeks of anti-biotics.  “They” say (who are They?) that anti-biotics destroy the flora (and fauna?) in your intestines (if you DO have tiny little flowers and fawns in there) and various other places.  Therefore it was recommended that Ron take […]

(A continuation from the last blog – Ron had a small heart attack.  The scene opens with Ron and Bonnie in a hospital room.) In the morning we waited FOREVER (until 9:45) for the people in white to take Ron to the Cath Lab for the Angiogram. [Have you noticed that now hospital personnel wear […]

The Morning After the Great Fall dawned with the promise that all that hospital stuff was behind us.  Ron would NOT fall again.  It was about 8:30 and Ron had just finished reading his Bible sitting in his favorite chair in the family room.  I went in to ask him something when he started to […]

I am thoroughly amazed at how much time has passed since my last blog. Life has not been boring.  One morning  I was minding my own business at the computer when I heard a horrifically LOUD noise that could be nothing else but a body falling.  I ran into Ron’s study to find him on […]

After months of anticipation, Ron had Deep Brain Stimulation surgery at Oregon Health and Sciences University Hospital.  The Surgery Part I was very successful.  Dr. Burchiel (the surgeon) said  it was downright boring.  The wires went in perfectly, with no bleeding. We were blessed that our daughter Renee could come to stay with us for […]

We recently celebrated our 46th anniversary.  Ron is such a martyr!  (Or am I the martyr?)  Seven years ago we were on a plane, making our 6th ministry trip to the British Isles.  After one of my journeys to the toilet, I passed Ron in the aisle as he was making his way to that handy […]

  Ron (my husband of 46 years) was having various aches and pains and was exhibiting a strange tendency to keep his right arm stiff and bent rather than swinging it as he walked. His doctor referred him to a Neurologist. I had assured myself that nothing definitive would be found.  The symptoms would just […]

It’s evening on Christmas day.  No need to dream of a white Christmas.  Ron and I awoke in our cozy log home to watch an angry wind blow tiny flakes sideways, trying to add more depth to the four inches of snow on the ground.  It was not encouraging to face this snowstorm as we began […]

The Christmas season has officially begun.  From now on we will be deluged with commercials for every toy in the universe and sappy coffee commercials, where the actors have a great love of family and the aroma of the brewed black beverage. We will never forget one particular Christmas.  Because we were ministering in Wales […]

It occurred to me, after sharing Ron’s malapropism in my last blog, “everything is peachy-dory” that there might be young people out here who wouldn’t understand it.  That malapropism is a combination of “peachy-keen” and “hunky-dory.”  I can understand the peachy-keen, since things used to be “keen” in the Olden Days, instead of neat or […]

Welcome back to The Continuing Saga of Ron’s Broken Heart.  I waited in a waiting room (which is actually quite logical) while Ron had an Angiogram (which is not as much fun as a birthday-gram).  I received the news “Your husband needs open heart surgery.”  You know, if doctor had said bi-pass surgery, it wouldn’t […]

November 9, 2012 Ron shouldn’t have joined The Disease of the Month Club.  That can be the only explanation as to why he has had a stellar career of experiencing rather major health problems, leading up to his present battle with Parkinson’s.  He started in high school with a tumor growing around an artery in […]

Who would have thought?  I’m actually writing a blog!  Where did the word blog originate?  First there was mail, then electronic mail = email.  Then there was the Captain’s log (“Stardate 4012” — yes I was there when the first episode of Star Trek aired on TV).  So there would be electronic log = elog.  […]