What took you so long?

On June 2nd Dr. Hubby went to the country club like he has done practically every day for 50 years.  The past few months, he has not been able to play golf due to the Parkinsons, but loved driving out there and checking his golf cart tires.

He said the last thing he remembered was raising up from checking the tires and falling backwards.

I found him an hour later when I went to look for him.  He did'nt come home when I thot he should, and I was so fearful.

I found him on the golf shed floor.  Apparently he got on his cart and drove it into the shed.  He had a granmal seizure from a head injury and two mild heart attacks. 

We were in the hospital for seven days, and went home for six.  Rushed back to the hospital with conjestive heart failure.  Another stint in the hospital then back home for three days.  To the hospital again, this time with two mild strokes. 

We have been home now a month.  He has sitters at night, as he was very aggitated at night, and tries to get up constantly.  He cannot stand nor walk, as the parkinsons has taken it toll.  His brain does not tell his legs however that he cannot stand nor walk.  Parkinsons is an evil disease with no cure.  His muscles are going very fast, and soon he will not be able to swollow. 

I sit all day from 6:30am until 8:00pm, and I am trying with all my heart to make each day a good day for him.  He gets so tired of the bed, and when he is himself, he begs to die, and pleads to let him get up or says he cannot live like this anymore.  He has dimentia also, and forgets from time to time where he is.  Since he is in a hospital bed he somemtimes thinks he is back in the hospital.

I am not feeling sorry for myself, but thankful I have known a man that loves me uncontionally.  No one in my life has ever loved me like this man does, and each year we have had together is a blessing to me.  Twenty four years of knowing him and loving him, and almost twenty married to this kind gentle man that I call Dr. Hubby.

When I found him and four men helped me lift him out of the cart shed, and got him up to the club house, paramedics began working on him,  he turned to me and asked "what took you so long".... He knew I'd come looking for him.  

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Enjoying this beautiful weekend here in NE Texas.  Dr. Hubby has had a very difficult week.  Had a tooth extracted by oral surgeon on Monday.  Then Thursday and Friday he fell hard when bp dipped very low.  Changed his meds, and so far so good today.  Daughter and Mr., and little A will be here shortly to eat and visit.  This has made us both happy.

Remembering My Uncle Karl Roasa, who died in action during WW1.  He died in France, and then his little brother, the baby went to France in WW2, (MY DAD) and my Grandmother died before Dad made it back.  They say, she grieved thinking of of her eldest and youngest dying in France.

I have no idea what she went thru nor my uncle nor my precious Dad who passed away with lung cancer in l965.  Being on a foreign land during war time has to be awful.  Thank them both for serving.  One who did'nt make it back, and one who did.........

Burned Bridges/or fools rush in

Recenty, our little community had a bond election for new schools.  We are old!   Jr High built in l936 and the newest school built in l950.  Needed very badly, and both of our kids went here and was a wonderful experience.

However, it was defeated 1160 to 868.  Another little community six miles away that attended Jr. High thru high school had their elementary closed due to low attendance, and an expense the school system could not afford.  At their voting precenct a posture reading, "remember, they closed our school" was put up....  Seems the school was closed abruptly and they were not given time to adjust before it happened.

The little community was just voted wet, and alot of the kids are going to a near by school in another county.  In fact they say 150 kids were taken out of our school system in last six years due to racial and or bullying by other students/teachers showing partiallity etc. 

Several large land owners bought huge ads in our local paper saying No to the bond issue.  Many of  The local businesses were against it.  Most old money and had voted down the last big bond by 7 votes in l980. Many lies were exchanged and now our community is turn apart.

Hubby and I rushed in, had big Yes sign in front yard, and tried very hard to get others to Vote Yes.  I was told I was not nice, and now I wonder if I was wrong in my passion toward this bond issue.

I love my community very much.  We are dying on the vine.  We won three State Championships in a row, our kids excell in UIL, as well as sports.  I taught here for 22 years.  My heart is here as well as my devotion for all the teachers, past and present.

But Was I a fool, not to see why these people did  not vote YES?  An average household would have gone up $5.00 a month.  Did I miss the forrest for the trees?

Lord help me see what is right in this situation,  I've never had enemies before, and it is really bothering me.

Blessings, Heide

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson: At 5, began studying under his cousins tutor. At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French. At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages. At 16, entered the College of William and Mary. At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe. At 23, started his own law practice. At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America" and retired from his law practice. At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress. At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence. At 33, took three years to revise Virginia’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom. At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry. At 40, served in Congress for two years. At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams. At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington. At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society. At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party. At 57, was elected the third president of the United States. At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size. At 61, was elected to a second term as President. At 65, retired to Monticello. At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine. At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president. At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government.  He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man.  That happens to be way more than what most understand today.  Jefferson really knew his stuff.  A voice from the past to lead us in the future: John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.  A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.  If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. .