Unnamed and Unfinished

Laughter is the best medicine.   ALWAYS.   There are scientific studies that show that laughing benefits the body and mind.   I am not a scientist and this is not a scientific blog, so if you need info about those studies, you are on your own.   I suggest Google. I had a chance for a good laugh recently with a couple of great friends.   In the midst of a scary days and weeks, oh how I needed these friends and that laughter.   It all started with a webinar I had to attend for work.   It was in place of a meeting in Indy, and I was all about NOT TRAVELING!   Good grief, my plate is so full with school, work and Big’s health the last thing I needed was to drive to Indy for a 4-hour meeting.   When the webinar was suggested instead, I was ALL IN!! So, anyway, I get to the office and log on.   And some in the group of about 8 participants wanted to actually SEE each other so I turned on my webcam.   It was humorous.   I felt...

Part of what propelled me to start this blog is my current journey through the unknown. Or at least what I actually recognize as the unknown. Honestly, isn't all of life the journey through the unknown? Every day is full of unknown opportunities and experiences, but I digress... Right now I face some big unknowns. My oldest child, my "Big," is facing some unknown and scary medical issues. This girl is hardly sick, but when she is, she goes ALL OUT! When she was born, she had an infection and a 102 degree fever... and then she had severe jaundice and didn't get to come home until she was 7 days old. When she was 1 1/2 she had troubling blood work with an extremely elevated alkaline phosphatase level found after fighting an unexplained fever we couldn't bring down with meds. When she was 8 she severely dislocated her right elbow. Yes, she is right handed. Our local hospital couldn't get that sucker back in and she ended up at a children's hospit...