Father's Day

Father's Day weekend is always significant for me, this Father's Day Sunday is 6 years since the day I came home from Sacred Heart after my Stroke & walked up the side walk of My Parent's House to Hug my Family, walked being the key word, & Family being the next. The Saturday before I came home the Neurotherapist was there at the Hospital with me giving me my last therapy session, and after we were done, I was back in my bed surrounded by Mom, Sis & Hayden he was only 3 months old. Ed & Hunter had gone back to Omak several days earlier. My therapist looked at me and said you realize their are no neurotherapists in your area and of course I hadn't realized because I had never needed one but it didn't surprise me. But she said I can see that you will do everything that I tell you to do and I said to her "You tell me everything I gotta do to get back out there, I have two Boys to take care of" Thus the reason I am where I am today, I didn't let it slow me down or get me down.

My Dad has done so much for us, he has been the most awesome example that anyone could ask for, he hasn't always been perfect but that's what makes him an even better example for Me & for my Kids. That is probably where I get my drive from, we don't let anything stop us, there are a few things that may slow us down for a while but we keep going, keep working hard! We aren't invincable or untouchable we just keep on keeping on.

My Dad has had some mild paralyzation in one of his arms, so My Sis finally convinced him to see Dr. Long yesterday, Thankfully he did, Dr. Long sent him for an MRI, it was conducted yesterday afternoon and after review it is very clear that Dad has some MAJOR stuff going on in his neck for lack of the technical terms for it, we are considering this bad news actually good news because it came before he was completely paralyzed. He is on restriction at the moment, no shoveling, no neck twisting, no jumping off of anything no and no and no, can we tell him only to move his eyeballs, I doubt he would listen to that, this morning he asked me "What am I supposed to do" dead silence as I choked back a tear, I been there, it took all I could to make light of it all, we joked a little bit, talked about this being "Our Week" forever in our history. I couldn't help but laugh when he said if I have surgery on Friday I should be able to work on Monday, I just had to say Monday shit, you should be able to work on Sunday, the one thing about my Family we understand the seriousness of certain things but we try to always see the positives.

We play hard, fall hard and keep going, as my Dad has always said, "I ain't getting out of here alive"

I Love You Dad! Happy Father's Day!