iona's blog

It's a journal. It's a devotional. It's a record of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivor. It's documentation of God's activities in real time. There are good days and bad, happy times and sad... I tell it like it is. This is an unscripted walk along the meandering paths of my mind. My life has never been dull... and I've never known boredom. Read on, you'll see...

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Name: Iona Hoeppner
Location: Kissimmee, Florida, United States

I am a happily married mother and grandmother of a large family. I've also had several careers including writer, teacher, trucker, investment and finance advisor, web master and artist. I am an ordained minister (not to the pulpit) and consider my calling to Christ's service my most important role in life.

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Good Life

I am amazed at how low my energy level remains. I begin the day feeling great and going hard, then in no time, I'm feeling low and hardly going. Believe me, I'm not over doing. I am, in fact, doing very little, just have no reserves.

I went for my followup at the doctor and was dismayed that they began reciting the mortality rates of meningitis. Hello? I didn't die! Not planning to kick off any time soon. I had hoped to hear about how to regain my pep. I was told to come back in three months. I'm not likely to do that. I'll either be better by then or much worse.

Anyway, the real highlights of my week were the Wednesday evening "Back Yard" cookout and devotional at The Vine, sharing food and fun and a great down home  Christmas parade with friends in Kissimmee, talking on the phone with some of my kids and grandkids and meeting with my church family this morning to worship and learn and love together at The Vine. It's been a good week!

The house is not clean (but not horrid, either), the packages I need to send are only half wrapped and I haven't even started the Christmas letter and cards... but I will slowly get to it all... or I won't. Life goes on and I still love life. A LOT!

Richard is home from work in we will soon go to the store for the last of our Christmas shopping and to get milk and bread. I hope to finish preparing the gifts to mail so they can arrive before Christmas. Then, I'll goof off all evening. No wonder I don't have any energy. I lay around too much.

Tomorrow, we're going to Disney's MGM Studios for dinner and fun with friends. I'm looking forward to that. Life is so good. And The Giver of Life is awesome!

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