A New Endeavor ! ????

1.31.13

I was working on our farm's website ( www.woodfinnfarm.com ) and had to replace a photo on our 'contact us' page. Lo' and behold- I saw a little box on the top " enquiry forms".  I clicked on it w/ my ever faithful mouse and there were  a good 10 emails that never had been forwarded to My personal email address !  From as far back as oh, last July. Interest in boarding a horse here, a working student enquiry, a wonderful gal interested in the "Mommy & Me & a PONY !"  sessions ( to be held this coming spring ) and then one I Almost didn't look at but am SO glad I did.....

It was an email from a gal who worked for the ' Farm & Ranch ' magazine asking me if I might be interested in keeping a month long " diary" of what goes on here.  Well, after picking my chin off the desk, I started smiling. I knew the magazine well as I used to subscribe to it when I lived in Maryland and simply couldn't afford it here in Pa....

 " Of COURSE I would like to keep a 'farm diary' of going's on here !! "

She returned an email today ( the high winds today kept me from getting email in a timely manner) and asked if April would be good for me. Omg- would it be GOOD ??  It'd be PERFECT !!!   Springtime here is marvelous- all the plants begin to bloom, horses shed those awful dirty winter coats, humans begin coming out of "winter hibernation" and want to do things- and of course, the springtime weather is Gorgeous. Warm sunshine, grass is beginning to green up nicely,and we no longer need to wear heavy clothing creating that ever popular Michelin man look !

Stay tuned- I hope this actually happens - if not, well it sure made a windy, bitter cold January day more interesting .

 Here's a little chuckle for your Thursday afternoon :

He's Home !

 My husband was released from the hospital on January 28th - Four days after having open heart surgery !  Wow- I was floored when he said he was allowed to go home So soon.

It was a rainy/ icy/ sleeting type of day and the ride to the 'big city' took a little longer than usual, but I got there with no mishaps. ( thank goodness)  We had to wait and wait for the discharge nurse to come and "sign off" , but eventually got on our way before the traffic really got heavy.

So- he's Home. I have never welcomed that sentence as much as I do right now. His scar isn't anything like I was expecting- its much smaller and was glued shut. Amazing ! A serious , difficult surgery like that and the surgeon used Glue. He has four little dashes on his stomach that look as though someone might have been sending a Morse Code... but they are only where some chest tubes had been inserted. 

I am once again amazed at how wonderful medical science has come from the days of my dad suffering from heart disease. The husband is going to be Fine, the folks at the hospital who cared for him so well, and the wonderful surgeon who gave him a brand new aortic heart valve are incredible

If any of them happen to read this-

 THANK YOU from the Both of Us.

Jan. 26, 2013...

My husband went to the hospital this past Thursday... Open heart surgery to replace his aortic valve. We were both terrified, but neither one let the other know. Go figure...  I was the one who waited from 7 AM until 7 PM when I finally got to see him. He came thru it all with 'flying colors' and was totally out when I did get to see him. That was all I wanted- to just See him; to be sure it was all 'real' and not some cruel nightmare. To me, he looked so helpless, and I knew the pain that was going to meet him when he did finally wake up. The surgery went splendidly, according to his surgeon - and Glenn now has a bovine valve replacing his that wasn't working and was crusted with calcium... In a few months he should be almost healed and each day, his sternum and ribs heal a little more, therefore causing less pain.

I spoke to him today- just two days out of a major surgery, and he sounded SO much better than yesterday. All of the tubes he had are out now, and the only thing left is the insulin drip. That hopefully will be removed this evening and he'll be entirely on his own once again. He's in a semi-private room as well. His nurse said today that he was coming along super, and he's trying hard to get past it all.

 I am SO proud of him for being who he is ;a strong willed, intelligent, hard working man who will work hard to overcome any challenge.... and those are what allowed me to fall so in love with him.

 Here he is, doing what he Adores the most :  Drumming !

A New Year..... And Elvis is in the house

 January 6,2013

It is a new year; full of wonderful things to hope for, work towards and to see to fruition....

My husband and I began the new year with going to hospitals, having tests done, and a lot of waiting, for me, that is. It seems that he needs open heart surgery to have his aortic valve replaced. We Both hope that it can be accomplished soon...and then he can spend the winter letting his rib-case heal. THEN  we pray that he'll be set to get back to being "Glenn".

A funny thing happened when he had returned to the recovery room in the hospital.  We had started out in one area of it, then he was taken via  hospital bed to have a TEE done. ( this is where a small camera is put down via his throat to snap some good photos of how his valve is or isn't working- he was put under for this)  Once he was returned to the same room- he was wheeled to a different cubicle to 'return to lucid'. All was going fine... I was there and he asked me 'where was he', then what floor we were on. He was trying to figure out just where he'd 'landed'.

Then, way across the room- past the nurses area- there was a woman returned. Obviously the same sort of tests had been done to her as well.

Glenn kept chatting with me and the nurses checking on him - making perfect sense too. He was coming out of it all perfectly, it seemed. There were some people who had come into see the woman across that room- and I noticed it was "Elvis" ...with Mrs. Elvis too.  Very obviously an impersonator but Elvis- just the same. I pointed him out to Glenn- who was seemingly returning to the land of living really well.

" I must have gone over the Rainbow Bridge - There's ELVIS !!!" 

 And laughing,totally cracking up. Thank goodness those folks were far enough away that they never did hear him.  He must have said it three times, and even noticed the guy's cowboy boots .

  "He must be Elvis- he's got the boots too- I've gone over the Rainbow Bridge...."

The whole thing cracked me up as well as some nurses...
 Life is never boring with my beloved husband !