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Like Dorothy, when she was locked into the witch’s castle and the hourglass was emptying of sand, I’m frightened — oh, Auntie Em! I’m frightened!
My daughter-in-law called this afternoon with the news that my son was taken to the hospital after suffering a stroke. Not words any mother wants to hear, let me tell you! It turns out that they (in all thier innimitable wisdom) THINK he had a TIA (transient ischemic attack). They’ve run a battery of tests from a CAT scan to an MRI and other than a “shadow” they saw on the MRI, they cannot find a cause of this.
He had all the classic symptoms of a TIA — disorientation, slight paralysis of his left arm, blurred vision, inability to process a thought chain, but no apparent cause. His blood pressure was (and is) normal, he’s not overweight, he’s in his mid-thirties, normal range of cholesterol and otherwise very healthy.
He did have an incident a few weeks ago with his knee which has since been bothering him and he was scheduled to have an MRI on that later this month. I’m wonderfing if he had a clot break loose, but surely “they” have covered that base.
——update!—–
Today, the doctor finally told him what happened. It WASN’T a TIA (thank GOODNESS!), but what it is is so weird!
It seems that his brain is too big for his skull.
Some of his brain was protruding out of the hole where his spinal cord goes into the skull and putting pressure on the spinal cord which was what was giving him the symptoms of a stroke.
His doctor has advised him to give up caffiene, and get more rest, so it remains to be seen if any other treatment is done (they can enlarge the hole in the skull that the spinal column goes through if it’s necessary).
His doctor also told him that this condition is hereditary and congenital, so he has to watch his two children and I need to tell my doctor 
Pray for him and his family.
Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
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I’m preparing for a 4 day trip to Atlanta and just found out when I dragged one our best luggage sets out of the closet, that Ken forgot to remove everything from one of the bags when he came back from Germany last YEAR!
At least it wasn’t dirty underwear he left in it, but it WAS something I thought he left in Germany — namely the charger to my camera! Well! while that mystery is now solved, I sold the camera not long after he came back and bought a new one that is a different brand, so this charger doesn’t work for anything in this house!
Don’t think I’m going to look up the person I sold the camera to, either 
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Writing is an addiction. If you’ve ever written something that received someone elses’ attention, you are hooked. The need to write something else that gets commented on, or read by someone else is your spur to write more.
It almost doesn’t matter if the response is complimentary or uncomplimentary, it’s the heady rush of “hey! someone READ what I wrote!”. That’s what gets you hooked.
Now that I think about it, I may be MORE excited about someone who disagrees with something I’ve written about than with someone who compliments me on what I’ve written. Reason being, when someone disagrees, you can pretty well bet they’ve read at least most of what you wrote. They usually quote you on a sentence or two and nearly always take your salient points to refute, all of which tells you they read on a more than cursory level, and with some degree of depth, your entire piece.
The complimenter on the other hand, can be pretty empty with their words. You often don’t get that indication that they read past the opening paragraph or so of your composition. (reminder to self to include some points upon which I agree or note some particular turn of phrase used in writings I want to compliment).
So, disagree away with me. It serves to spur me on to greater literary (cough, cough) heights.
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Mik and his wife, Carolyn are trying to plan a 10th wedding anniversary trip and have thought up the idea of a contest to get suggesions on where to go, what to do, etc.
It sounds like a fun contest and I wish I were more inventive so I could come up with something totally cool for them to do.
They already have two outstanding suggestions — Ireland and a B&B in the Napa Valley of California. Both of those appeal to me greatly, but don’t think my husband would enjoy them as much since he’s no wine drinker.
Anyway, Mik & Carolyn — best of luck on your trip! Whichever one you decide on, I can tell it will be super special!
Hugs,
Maggie
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