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Dear Anna: A Letter From Your Tennessee Friend, Louisiana, With Love (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Rated "G" by the Author.
Louisiana answers yet another letter before she gets ready to go to church.
Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 6:10 p.m., C.S.T. (Almost put "2004"; I have to keep reminding myself it is a new year! LOL)~
Dear Anna Arnette~
Hi from Music City U.S.A.! How is everything up there in Anchorage? Hope all is well with you, your husband Bob, and all your beautiful children! We are all doing rather well here, but I am facing back surgery on the 25th of this month. I will be going into the hospital either on the 22nd or 23rd, and I will have the surgery either on the 24th or 25th. I am not looking forward to the surgery, but it is something that must be done, or else I will end up in a wheelchair before the year is up--permanently.
I have been trying to get some of my emails answered; I have already answered emails from Erin McCabe in Pocatello, Idaho, and Sari Annike Gustaffssenn in Ivalo, Finland; I have also written to my other Alaskan friends Jenna Aurora Doucet (she lives in Anchorage, too, just like you guys!) and Sikik Grace Eegeesiak (she lives in Barrow), and I have written to my Texas friend, Diane Aguilar, who lives in Del Rio, Texas. I still have yet to write to Rosie Bergegeay in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Greta Wagner in Mesa, Arizona, and my friends in Soulsbysville, California, Louisa Mason and Kendra Williams. Then it starts all over again! LOL I figured I would write to them while I still can and before I go into the hospital.
Of course, I am a little scared about my upcoming surgery, but I have put it in God's Hands, and I know, with His Help, I will make it through with no problems. Still, I would NOT rather have it AT all; but since I can't stop it from happening, I put it at the Foot of the Cross, and I am going to let God take care of things instead of trying to worry about things I can't really control. Until then, I am working less hours, and the doctor has me walking on forearm crutches, to take the weight off my back and sciatic nerve; and it's helped, but I am not used to having people wait on me. I also am not used to working less than eight hours per day on my shift, and I also have to use a scooter or my wheelchair when I have to do a lot of excess walking. So my activities are quite curtailed at the present time, and it is going to get worse until I recover from my surgery. Hopefully, I will be able to get off the crutches for good, and hopefully, all this severe, disabling pain I have had in the past, since my childhood, will be a thing of the past. Oh, I hope so; I have had more than enough of this crippling back pain! This is NO way to live, especially since I have a husband and a lot of children to take care of!
Well, enough of my health woes. How is YOUR health been holding out, and how have the health of your husband, Bob, and the kids been faring? I hope this finds each and every one of you well and happy, and I pray that nobody gets sick! Here, we have managed to escape the flu, but Ronee', my daughter, did have a cold and a few flares; but she has managed to stay out of the hospital, which is a huge step for her. My son, Johnny, has also managed to stay out of the hospital, and that is something of a miracle for him! Hope it lasts; I hate it whenever Johnny, Ronee', or any of my sicklier kids get sick unexpectedly!
Well, I know this isn't much, but we are getting ready to leave for church services tonight at Christ Community Assembly of God. I will write more after we get home from church; I can stay up to at least 11 or even midnight now, now that I don't have to go to work at six, like I used to do. I now go in at nine, and I work until 1, 1:30 in the afternoon, which I rather like! Until later on, take care, and God bless you all! Sorry for the long delay in writing, but you know how that goes when it comes to raising a large family! Such as life, hunh??
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Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 6:10 p.m., C.S.T. (Almost put "2004"; I have to keep reminding myself it is a new year! LOL)~
