Time and trouble....

Has it really been THAT long since my last blog? I shock myself!!!! I thought that I had typed in later than 4/22! Maybe I didn't send it after I typed it!!!! Do you suppose???? Guess I told you all about my friend and "taxi-driver" Rose falling and breaking her arm!!! I told her that little Chihuahua that some one of her family had given her was going to be the death of her yet!!! He is so hyper!!!! Well, after he pulled away from her and caught his leash on her ankle and she fell AND broke her arm, she decided too, that he was too much for her! So she gave him back to her Grandson who gave him to her and he found another home for it!! But Rose in the meantime has been staying at her son's house and came home yesterday for the daytime but will stay nights with some of her family for awhile. It's great to have her back!!! She said that she can't wait now to get back to driving her car so she and I can at least have a way to get us to Church!! Of course right now she can't do too much. Broke her arm near the shoulder so has to use a sling. She said the Dr. told her to keep up the exercises he has given her and before she knows it she will be O.K., but for her now time, she says, seems to drag! I seemed to be doing great here and all of a sudden got a running off the bowels, and a nausea. Don't know whether it was a 24 hour thing or not. Figured out it couldn't have been anything that I ate! Well, I called Steve that evening and he brought over some Pepto-Bismol and so I did get to feeling better. He left and went home about 11:00. The next day felt O.K. and I ate kind of light all day and then on Saturday got a scare when I had my usual trip to the bathroom. Looked like my stool was black and it was!!! That scared me and so I called Steve. He said he was ready to take off from work anyway and would come and take me to the Emergency Room. After 7 hours there, they decided that I was O.K. except that they were going to gve me an antibiotic because of a Urinal infection that I apparently still had from about two weeks ago. Then I found out from my son Bob, and when I got home, and I had a call on my answering machine from a niece who is an R.N. and I had called her earlier in the day about my problem and she and Bob both told me that Pepto-Bismol will do that!!! However, both the hospital and Sue told me that I did the right thing by going to the ER! Which made me feel like not quite the fool that I was feeling like!!!! Went to the Dr. then on Monday which was a regular visit and she also told me I did the right thing!!! Quite a weekend, and with all the coming and going and doing, I feel like I have been put through a wringer!!!! started feeling a little better yesterday, (maybe it was the visit from Rose!!!! We have known each other for at least 20 years and have been neighbors for that long!) But I tend to think that it was getting all the antibiotics out of me!! Oh yes, the Dr. told me not to take anymore of those and in fact took me off all the infection medicine!!!! So I guess maybe my system is getting back to "normal?".
Read your last blog today, Steve, and I wouldn't know what to tell you about giving to the poor!! Did you say you had talked to Fr. John about the man? One never knows, does one? There is a lot of good people out there, like you, and then it's getting to the point to where you never know whether you are being "conned" or not. There are agencies like the Salvation Army, etc. that do feed the poor and don't ask any questions about it! So why is this man standing outside a Church and it seems like day after day and always or almost always a different story? Maybe if he didn't get the handouts there, he wouldn't be standing there!!! Who knows? Father Hayes told some of the guys who used to do that at St. Anne's that they should come to the Rectory and they would give them a voucher to get food and or clothing through the St. Vincent de Paul Society or the Salvation Army. I don't know why but we don't seem to have them around the Church doors any more!!! Think about it!! Thank you for all your help to me when I need it! My problem is that I'm afraid to be taking too much time of you time away from your family!!! Believe me it is appreciated! Times are so tough these days! Seems like only prayer and good works are the only answer!!Well now that I have given you my Drs. report and my advice on how you should live, I'll sign off for this time!!! All I want for Mother's Day is prayers and I know that I have that from my family, but a little better health would be a plus!!!