Quick update about this week. My grandmother had a stroke on Sunday, June 8th. She was moved to the Jewish Stroke Center from a small hospital there in the small town she lives in. She's, amazingly, doing better now at the end of the week than we thought she would in 3 months! The stroke affected her speech and her ability to understand causing confusion, but after giving her Heparin, she's made an amazing reversal. On Monday, June 9th, my dad, who is almost 66 years old, had knee replacement surgery. He got to go home on Wed., which was a day earlier than planned, so He's doing very, very well. Tho, even with all the "doing goods", i am still stressed as ever!
After the week i had, i was so pleased to see another email from Paulette. She made a suggestion in her reply to me that maybe i could look into starting a USO location here in KY, since we don't have one. The closest one is in Indy and while i could make that drive, it would be harder and harder as gas prices increase. At her suggestion, i visited the USO website
and looked for a location nearest me and called the phone number. After only being passed to one person, i have someone helping me to find out what can be done to help the bases here in KY. I'm SO excited and i'm so motivated! i can't wait to email Paulette and let her know what i find out.
You know, i am not sure people that give us hope, inspire us and motivate us know how very impressionable they were on our lives. I think the 3 go together... we need hope to be inspired, and we need inspiration to be motivated... in very simple terms. But how blessed we are when we find, and recognize, that we have found hope in one place, inspiration in another and motivation in yet another.
Today is a good day. I feel very hopeful, inspired and motivated. Thank you to my kids for giving me the hope that there is good in the world... to Michael for inspiring me to find it... and to Paulette for motivating me to be it.
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