The Afternoon of Life

 I've been away from blogging for a couple of weeks.  I thought an impending disaster was about to unfold in my life.  My simple trip for glasses (I wrote about this at the beginning of the month) turned into month long turmoil that included a visit to the neurologist...a brain scan/MRI...a spinal tap (with accompanying 95-hour debilitating spinal headache)...and then...THE MIRACLE. The MRI showed something on the optic nerve...something that indicated the need for the spinal tap.  The first good news was a spinal tap that was clear...no malignant cells in the brain.  But as good as that news was, the miracle came the following week when the neuro-ophthalmologist could not find anything wrong with the optic nerve...NOTHING...NADA.  It was there last week...it was gone this week.  God is still in the business of healing and miracles!  I credit this to immense prayer support.  I am humbled at the answered prayer and sometimes wonder how and...

I really don't remember having a birthday last year.  My daughter told me tonight that while lying in bed I ate some birthday cake with her.  Why can't I remember that?  Is it because I'm getting old?  Or is it because God has been helping to block the painful memories of last year from my mind?  I was sooooo sick at this time last year....bald as a baby's butt.....wasn't eating much because nothing had flavor (except tomatoes)... and sleeping, sometimes for days at a time.  I'd been in the hospital in the middle of November for much-needed blood transfusions...I would go to the hospital for more transfusions before December ended.  I just don't recall much of it.  It all seems like a dream now.  But I do remember then that it felt like a nightmare and I thought I needed to resign myself to never feeling good again...never having energy.  But God is still in the miracle business and used the doctors and nurses at Roswell to heal my body....