Ken's Ordeal Part 5: Waiting
If you wan to start at the beginning, click the link labelled "Ken's Ordeal" at the bottom of this post or in the sidebar, and scroll down.There were many good, and likely life-saving results of the...
View ArticleDo We Need a "Spiritual Covering?"
I am sorry to have been distracted from many things that deeply matter to me--so much so that writing here has slowed to a crawl. I hope to be back soon. Ken is going to Mayo at the end of the month,...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal Part 6: The Mayo Clinic
To start at the beginning, click on the link at the bottom of this post, "Ken's Ordeal."Among other doctors, we visited an allergy specialist, wondering if perhaps Ken's continued illness could be due...
View ArticleP.S. to the Last Post of Ken's Ordeal: "Camp Lejeune's Toxic Legacy"
I forgot to mention something in the last installment (# 6) that might be significant to someone. The day before we left for Minnesota, I was sitting in the waiting room at my doctor's office and...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal Part 7: A Mayo Deja Vu
To start from the beginning, just click on the label "Ken's Ordeal" at the bottom of the post and scroll down.One of the Mayo entrances.There is little to say in this installment. Our second trip to...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal: Part 8 -- Changes, and an Offficially Abnormal Test
To start from the beginning, just click on the label "Ken's Ordeal" at the bottom of the post and scroll down.Last December we knew Ken was dangerously ill. I have previously written about the strange...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal Part 9: An Answer--But Wait
Last time I wrote about the visit to orthopedics to have Ken's knee checked out. Immediate surgery was recommended. We have since confirmed that the surgery will need to be done at the Veteran's...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal, Part 10: We Come Full Circle
Ken, and our daughter, Kris, arrived home late last night from the latest Mayo excursion. I didn't take Ken this time because of scheduling conflicts. And it seems we have at least a partial...
View ArticleTime Keeps On Slippin' and Transitions Keep Coming
I have been singing this Steve Miller classic all week. In the 70s, when the song was a hit, I got married, birthed two children, moved away from California (never to return except on vacations) and...
View ArticleTime Keeps on Slipping: Unpacking the Pile of Boxes
That last post went in a direction I hadn't planned. Now, isn't that ironic? I just realized it and laughed as I typed that.I've written about The OASIS at St. Nazianz on this blog. There is a link...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal Part 11--From the Mayo Clinic to the Veterans' Administration at...
As I typed the title, and "Part 11," I stopped and walked away from the computer for a few minutes. I am astonished, and not in any sort of positive way. When I began these posts with the label...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal Part 12 in Which We Learn of a New Disease, RS3PE
Ken's appointment in Rheumatology was at 2. At about 3:30 we finally met the rheumatologist, Dr. Z., a "fellow" as it turned out. He looked very young and he was extremely serious. English was...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal Part 13: Scans and more Scans
Ken has returned to the Milwaukee Veteran's Medical Center a couple of times for scans that are designed to reveal infection in the bones. The good news is that the scans reveal no infection. Why the...
View ArticleRemembering Kevin
Last Sunday, January 2nd, Ken's brother, Kevin passed away. He was 54.Kevin lived with us for almost five years. The last few months, mainly because Ken has been so ill, Kevin has lived in a group...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal Part 14 No Cancer, But is this Good News?
It has been two months since I posted. Where to start?Ken had a PET scan.The rheumatologist says that the illness Ken has, whatever it is, cannot be RS3PE, much as the symptoms fit, because certain...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal Part 15: Knee Surgery
On April 4th the long-awaited replacement of Ken's failed knee prosthetic took place at Milwaukee's VA Medical Center. His pain had steadily increased in the two weeks or so leading up to surgery,...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal Part 16: Neurological Tests
It has been three months since a post about Ken, but here is number sixteen. That in itself is a bit horrifying. I think I have avoided posting because things seem pretty grim. It is difficult to be...
View ArticleThe Story of the Blue Countertops
The story of the blue counters begins with a dream that came at a terrible time in our lives. While this story is not about that time, I share a little of it so you understand--and so I don’t...
View ArticleFriday Five: The Sound of Muzak (tm)
I have not played the Friday Five for a very long time. Today is the day, since I'm home from work. Over at Rev Gal Blog Pals, Deb has this to say:Recently, we got some Indian take-out food. While we...
View ArticleThe Blue Shard
I walked in the cityOn a sidewalk No one near.Strangely lonely, Empty city.In the gutter, A glint of sunshine. I stopped, Looked. Vivid with colorA large shard of glass, Cobalt blue, shot through...
View ArticleKen's Ordeal #17: No More Tests to Do
In the last post with the tag "Ken's Ordeal" I said that Ken was waiting for a brain MRI and to hear the results of many hours of neurological and psychological tests. There were delays, but finally...
View ArticleAletheia Praise Night at the Prison
Last night was the monthly "Aletheia praise night" at prison.Aletheiameans "the truth that is revealed" and is the name of a weekly Bible study at the prison where my husband is a chaplain. It was...
View ArticleRed and Yellow, Black and White?
I haven't blogged in a long time. It has been hard to find a voice or anything worth saying in the current sorrow, doubt, anger and weariness that seems to characterize my life at present. It has...
View ArticleLeaving Home
Later this week the movers will arrive to load up our stuff and take it to a new place. We have lived at our current address (a pleasant ranch-style house on Pleasant Avenue) for nearly 15 years. We...
View ArticleThat "Damn Obamacare"
Disclaimer: This post is not about really about Obama, nor about Clinton versus Trump, and not really about politics. I am retired from the ministry, unlike when I started this blog. A few years ago...
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