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Growth…Somestimes Quickly…Somestimes Slowly 

I  can only tell you about me and really I don’t know why I am

still alive. I will be seventy-one on August the 18th,2010 .

One reason that I have let an extra week pass without making a post is

that I have been busy this week with an AA convention in Covington,La..

The next reason is I got sick. I either got a stomach virus or I  ate

something that got stuck in my system that would not allow any food or

even water to stay down. Just moments after I swallowed it….It would

come back up…just as it went down,not sower or anything. After 30 hours 

of no fluids I began to dehydrate and get weak so I checked in at our local

hospital emergency room.Quickly, as I came in, they gave me a drip,took

my blood and gave me a special cocktail of drugs that would soothe my

stomach. The next day was Memorial Day and I became much better and I

do have a follow up doctors appoinment this morning.

Re-learning an old lesson from this experience.

While waiting to be released I struck up a conversation with a lady in the

other section of the little room. She was  a fairly young woman who has had

MS for six years. Although she had lost the use of  her legs and  all bladder

control she  remained positive and grateful. The doctor said she had

serious bed sores  and an urinary infecion. I could not see her because she

was behind a drawn curtain. Before I was released her 21 year old daughter 

came in and talked down to her and told her that her 26 yearold daughter

had refused to come. Her ex-husband shows up and announces that an

ambulance was here to pick her up but he did not have time for all this

crap.He said he has his own life to live.

I cried when I had no shoes…then one day I met someone with

no feet.

You see , my wife  can’t drive anymore… A friend came by and offered to

drive me home. My son called and ask if I needed help but my step-daughter

who had been at the convention all week end to take care of her Mother

had just driven 40 miles home to New Orleans (without a blink ) turned

around and came to drive me home.Thanks ,Janell, You are very special

and I am very lucky person.Lots of Love. …You see it pays to live

right 24 hours each day…I can surely count my Blessings. John

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