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Re: Pat_B and everyone else
Great outlook! It's encouraging to read how you guys handle things.
posted by
adnohr
on June 3, 2022 at 4:01 PM
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Pat_B and everyone else
Thank you, Pat. I can't tell you how much we enjoy working together. It gets stuff done, but it also strengthens our bond. We talk to each other and to our dogs all day. The dogs understand the tone of our voices, and they react accordingly. While we haven't been together for a 'lifetime,' our profession as nurses and our pasts were similar in that we had both lost a spouse in our recent past allowing two fellow travelers in life with major cuts in our lives to bond and heal together. If I am happy, she is happy. If she is happy, so am I. If I hurt, she hurts... you get the idea. We work together and play together. We have a new beginning to make a new life. We both know that is rare, so we make the best of it.
PS: We keep ourselves busy all the time. It is rare we have 'lounging time,' but I am going to make an attempt to be more involved here. I read most of the posts made here, most, not all, but it seems we are working on something about 98% of the day. I've become jealous of my time because while I am in great shape (minus some nasty cancer stuff), I also know the clock of life is ticking and we spend our days making the best use of our time together. We work hard, but we also spend time laying on the bed or on a blanket in the backyard, talking and giggling like kids together. It's a good life and we intend to grab as much of it as we can.
posted by
BigV
on June 3, 2022 at 8:12 AM
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Re: TAPS
Thank you. My father always told me I could lay about, crying in the dirt about how life has wronged me, or I could get up, dust off, and keep going. I can't change a thing about my past, but I can change and influence my future. As long as I have my wife, my vision will always be forward, with nary a glance backward. Just as Sarah, Lot's wife, was turned to salt for looking back, my eyes are always forward. Always forward. If I can't change it, I stop worrying about it.
posted by
BigV
on June 3, 2022 at 7:24 AM
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What Taps said, except for the part about being a night nurse.
Your new place is going to be just right for you two before you know it.
posted by
Pat_B
on June 3, 2022 at 6:12 AM
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You sound perky for what you have been through. I have a lot of trouble sleeping at night as I worked so many years as a night-shift nurse. Now I'm just a night-shift old lady. Keep getting better. Continuing in my prayers for you.
posted by
TAPS.
on June 3, 2022 at 5:13 AM
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