*yawn*
I stayed with David day and night while he was in the hospital which made for very little sleep most of the time and
no sleep at all for two nights. Since coming home, I've been going to bed early and sleeping in until 9:00, but I'm
still so sleepy that I'm either fighting to stay awake or walking around zombie-like. *yawn*
David is continuing to heal. I forgot to mention what he was having surgery for. He had his colon removed,
yep, the entire large intestine, all five feet of it. Anyway, now he has developed oral thrush from all the antibiotics
and is having terrible night sweats.
*yawn*
I think I'll head to bed now.
David and I are finally back home after 7 days in the hospital. He had surgery on the 14th and was released yesterday.
My parents came down and stayed with KJ through Sunday. KJ then spent nights with his dad and days at Zoo Camp until
leaving with my mom and sister yesterday. I stayed with David at the hospital. He had a really rough time for
a while, but is doing better now. Thanks for all your warm thoughts and prayers.
KJ loved Zoo Camp and can hardly wait to start shadowing the animal curators again. He still wants to work at a
zoo for his career.
KJ said something funny a few weeks ago that I forgot to blog about. He was asking about the swimming pool game,
Marco Polo, and wanted to know why it was named after him. I suggested that maybe blindly feeling your way around a
pool was similar to exploring unknown places like Marco Polo did. KJ then said that it could be played using lots of
names and started chanting, "Amerigo....Vespucci....Amerigo....Vespucci....or....Vasco....de Gama....Vasco....de Gama....Maaaaa....gellan....Maaaaa...gellan."
I died laughing.
We've had a death in the family. We found Peg, our paralyzed hen, dead this morning. David, KJ, Jared (neighbor's
grandson), and I had a lovely memorial service for her this evening. We buried her under the brick pathway in my garden.
I used the Dremel to make a wooden sign that says "Sweetiepie aka 'Peg'" and an image of a chicken. It looked pretty
darn good if I do say so myself. I lit some incense and a candle and said,
"We come to You now to release
This pain and all emotional beasts
That plague our hearts so heavily
Take them from us, set us free.
(I got this from a book, didn't make it up.)
Then everyone took a flower, said a memory of Peg, and placed the flower on her grave.
I held up a rose quartz and said, "This stone will always represent you to us, Peg." and laid the quartz on the flowers.
Then I said, (didn't make this up either)
"You're free to go now, little one
Rejoice and play, the time has come
For your spirit to be on its way
Have fun, be happy, your love will stay
We then meditated briefly about the special place Peg had in our lives.
