Connie's Corner

A special but sad day....

Yesterday I had my six month check up at the "skin" doctor and am now sporting two more mole biopsies. Results are due by next Tuesday.

Today is Jim's birthday and this afternoon I shall be at the cemetery with a fresh bouquet of flowers. He would have been seventy today, first birthday without him in fifty years. I am beginning to think the pain and longing will never ever go away, maybe not even get any lighter. The solace I find here helps to keep me going.

When I got home from my appointment yesterday, my neighbor was hobbling to her mailbox so I went out to talk. She twisted her back after getting up from a stool and had just returned from the chiropractor, definitely in a lot of pain. She is so nice...she still managed to chat a while. A hurting back is so painful, and there is practically nothing that helps but time.

My heart goes out to all the families in Texas who are enduring the aftermath of those deadly tornadoes this morning. It is a reminder of our stormy weather to come. Hurricane season begins here on June 1st.

Well, my brain won't turn me loose from Jim today so I may as well say...

until next time...c