Meanderings...

I haven't posted anything here for a long time.  Life has been getting in the way, real life that is.  The kind where you go day to day, and sometimes hour to hour trying to keep your head above water, and hope you don't sink before you learn how to swim.

I've learned a lot the past few months about myself.  I've been a caretaker to an ill person, have learned that there are yucky things I can do that I never, ever, ever, thought I could do.    And I have to say, I admire nurses more now than ever.  I've only had to deal with yucky stuff this one time in my life and not on a day to day basis.

So, if you know a nurse, have a nurse in your family, take a minute and say thank you to them, they deserve it.   They deal with this stuff all the time, and maintain their sanity. 

And I cannot forget CNA's or Certified Nursing Assistants, I've met some awesome ones the past while as well.   So many of them have passion and compassion, a great sense of humor, and a gentleness when dealing with ill people, and I hope those ones go on to become nurses or other associated medical professionals themselves.  Although they are already. 


So here's Kudo's to all the medical personnel out there, you are appreciated and noticed.  

Just wanted to say that. 

In Memorium

I got word the other day that a woman I knew from childhood had passed away.   I would like to call her a friend, cause even though I might not see her but every few years, and we always chatted a little when I saw her.

I first met her as the pesky little sister when her family moved into a house next door to ours.  Well, it was up the hill a little ways, cause when you live in the country you don't live right next door as you do in suburbia.   Her older sister and I played together as children, more from proximity than real friendship back then, and as we got older, we developed separate friends and interests.   And then I moved away, far far away.  And I'd see Delma from time to time when I was back in Duncan.   We always exchanged pleasantries, and I told her she had an open invitation to come visit me anytime she came to the States.   I would like to think that if I had stayed there we could have been real friends.   All I know is, she was always smiling, always sweet and I liked being able to talk with her, even though it was always very brief.   I wish now I'd tried a little harder to stay in touch.  But then we connected on Facebook and I got a glimpse of her life, and it was a rich, full life.  She had a life partner, she had children, she traveled, and documented that in pictures.    And I was so glad to see that.   

And now she's gone and as cliche as this may sound, the world is a smaller and colder place without her.