As I write this blog the weather is cooling down and daylight hours are getting shorter. In our part of the world the harvest is almost in and homeowners are getting ready for winter. I do not like to see winter coming, but it has to come and we must do our best to prepare for it.
My health is improving and I am glad for that. A matter of fact I am amazed and truly thankful. The CPAP machine is doing wonders. I would never have believed that air blowing in ones face could enable one to sleep and get the rest needed to cope on a daily basis. The more I explaine to people why I am better, they tell me they have the machine or a family member has to use one. One lady in our church said all her family members have to use a CPAP machine.
I am using a loaner machine to get all the bugs worked out. At first the face mask was too big and so I received one that did fit. Then the air was too cold and I was getting brain freeze. So the therapist sent me a heated tube and that has done wonders. As long as arthritis in my back does not act up, I get a good night's sleep.
Since I have been using this machine during the month of September, my voice has come back strong again, I have energy I haven't had for a long time. As time goes on it will only improve. But the machine will be a part of my life for a long time. If I go away over night or on vaction I will need to take it with me. I will be getting my own machine some time this month. The machines are quite expensive.
I visited the doctor yesterday and we talked about my health and he went over my reports and medical history of late. He told me I was a lucky fellow, as my health otherwise is very good and if I drop some pounds I will do a lot better. He is only a young fellow just starting his practice, but wants to work with me and get me where I should be health wise. I look at this, as another chance to live a good productive life in my senior years. I am going to do what he suggest.
When I look around and see others my age, or younger, and see what they are going through, I am certainly thankful for what I have been given. I have a younger person working with me at the church and has been working two weeks a month while I have been ill and I do the other two weeks. Yesterday he entered the hospital with eternal bleeding and his kidney's shutting down. Hopefully he will pull through, but he is seriously ill. So it looks like I may be working every week for awhile. I pray and thank God every day for what I have been given.
Later this month as family and friends, we will get together and help my mother celebrate her Ninetieth birthday. She will be 90 on October 25th but the celebration will take place on Sunday October 26th at the Kentville Fire Department. Best wishes only. It will be nice for all our family to come together again,
This coming week will be a busy one as I am taking a course on Church Renewal. It is a university course, but I am only auditing it. I don't need to take it for credit as I am not taking anymore degrees. It cost enough just to audit it. The course runs from Monday through Friday, 9 am through 4:30 pm each day. I hope I will get something from it to help build the church for the future.
Valerie is doing great and helps to keep me going in the right direction. I don't know what I would have done without her during the last 10 months or so. Again I am a very fortunate man.
I must sign off for now. I am looking forward to seeing my sister and her husband from Pittsburgh PA. later this month. Hope everything is going well with them. You, my readers are in my prayers. May God bless you all!
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