Some of you are familiar with the Yin and Yang. “A starting definition: Yin / Yang : Two halves that together complete wholeness. Yin and yang are also the starting point for change. When something is whole, by definition it is unchanging and complete. So when you...

August, like the rest of the summer, was gone in a blink! September and fall seemed to arrive before my eyes and before I'm ready for it. There was so much on my summer to-do list that never got done. I was going to work paint the dining room furniture that I didn't...

Once again I apologize for my infrequent updates to this blog. I will remind you all that I made not promises and confessed upfront that I would be bad at posting regularly. So if you look at it that way, shame on all of you for not believing me. I'm coming to you...

So as predicted, I haven’t been very consistent posting to this blog. I think about it often but time just slips away from me and another day passes. I’ll try to be better but I’m not making any promises. Sam Update: So much has happened in the last month and a half....

Just when we thought we were in the clear.........we went to the burn clinic today. The spot on Sam's bicep is just not clearing up so they are going to go ahead and skin graft that spot. This was not the news that we were praying for but we will deal with the curve...

I have sat down at the computer a dozen times over the last 2 weeks to update the blog and I just haven’t had the words. So much has happened. Some good but some really bad. There has been healing and cleaning out of old junk, but there has also been loss. Today I...

It's hard to believe it has been almost two weeks since Sam's accident and a week since we have been home. Is it possible to have both time flying and standing still? Each day is filled with debridement and dressing changes along with cutting, preparing and setting up...

Dorothy was right, there is no place like home! They kicked us out yesterday. We were in our cars and heading home by 12:30 pm. Well, two of us were heading home, the other had to go to the pharmacy and pick up some pain meds. I think we all took a big sigh of relief...

This is hopefully the last post sitting in room 165.  At least for now.  Sam is no longer on IV pain meds, thanks to the Soup Nazi of trauma doctors......."No soup for you!"  And today when his IV blew again, then fell out of his arm temporarily, before Sam pushed it...

Today was very much the same as the previous six days with one major exception......a tentative release day was mentioned.  Thursday or Friday! So excited and at the same time terrifying.  Dr. Biabak (Plastics) was in today and he is pleased with the progress in the...