I Don't Have It so Bad

The other day I made a post about losing the use of my right hand. As you know my right and left legs quit working a long time ago and my left hand is most often curled up in a ball and almost unusable. I didn't want you to think how bad this is but I just wanted to make people aware because I know so many care about me but cannot keep up with my condition.

For the most part I have many things to be thankful for. My wife has been fantastic and I could not have done this without her. My son Matt comes over almost every day to help with me and the cat. Our son Tom is stationed in storm Lake and comes to visit as often as he can with his dog Atlas. Our oldest son Dan, helps a lot when he can visit. He is stationed on the West Coast so it is not easy for him to get home but when he is here he does a lot of work for us.

We have been watching Tom's dog Atlas for over a month while he is at Fort Knox training cadets. Yesterday was Friday and since my wife works summer hours she doesn't come home till after 10 so I was in bed late. About 9:45 AM Atlas was barking at something in the living room. It doesn't take much, anybody walking by and he barks. I yelled at him from the bedroom. He must've felt very guilty because he came in jumped up on the bed, and flopped his head down on my chest. He often comes in the bed with me but sleeps with this head by my feet. He must've needed some special attention for him plop his head down like that. He stayed like that for 20 minutes until my wife came home. When she went to get me out of bed I was still smiling about the dog. She asked if I was in a good mood because I rarely ever smile when getting up out of bed. I told her I was still chuckling about the dog.

Friday, the same day I was able to go out on the screen porch since the weather was so nice. The cat loves it out there and she joined me. She falls asleep on my left hand and I have my right hand on her back. Somehow she psychically makes me go to sleep and I woke up an hour and a half later. That cat is an evil genius!

Later that night we went down to the NewBo market for music. We were joined by my wife's sister's, her mom and one brother-in-law. We had a great night of friendship, good food and tasty beer.

As they say "Count your blessings". If I do that I find I have many to be thankful for. I try not to feel sorry for myself and with the Lord's help most of the time I'm able to live like that. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.