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: Davenport, 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 (I feel called to people, not to the pulpit) and consider my calling to Christ's service my most important role in life.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

PTing Awaaaay

I began a new medication today. Spiriva. I do pray it helps regain the energy I have lost. My pep slipped away gradually, and I really thought it was my fault... gaining weight, not active enough, yet not being able to get enough air just doing normal activities. In a way, the problem is my fault over the long run because I smoked for so many years.

I've always been a goer and a doer, and I do need exercise to stay healthy, so I am looking forward to good results with this med. They also gave me an "emergency inhaler," like I needed that?!

So, now that I am the typical Florida retiree with a little pill minder divided into daily compartments, I'm gearing up to go see my grandkids, my kids, some kin folk even older than me. And just as we finalized our travel plans, we find out we'll have company. Stephanie, who we have not seen since she returned from Afghanistan will be in Sanford Saturday night. We are full glee and plan to make complete fools of ourselves. We will be gone Sunday, so I need to find folks for my ministries. God works these things out, I've found... usually better than I ever cout

The biggest issue we've been in prayer about is the money. Taking this trip, even avoiding hotels and restaurants, is going to cost more than we will have when it's time to go. We will have some pay deposits from Disney drop into the coffers from time to time, however.

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