Premonition? ♥️

 Thursday August 13th

Hike along the shores of Lake Superior...Morning of July 9th.

July 9 was the day of my stroke.. It was just another picture perfect day on our vacation. We went for a hike to see the pictographs on the cliffs along the shores of Lake Superior.  It was, at times, a precarious hike as you can see by the picture top right. It required all the dexterity we had… Crawling on those rocks.  I think about that day all the time. I guess mostly because it was the last day since then that we spent as a family.  It really was a perfect summer day. The sun shining, the lake was still.  Nobody knew what lay in store that afternoon.

I remember the next morning waking up in the hospital. I couldn’t feel anything on the left side of my body or face. My face felt frozen. Did it look different? I pulled my phone out of my pocket, opened the camera, and put it in selfie mode… Yikes!  But it’s not so much what I remember seeing that morning looking back at me, but the previous picture that I had taken. It was a picture from the day before on the beach...of Olivia, Max and Lucy playing in the water.  It was a typically adorable picture of three kids being silly… they were flexing like bodybuilders.  

Or perhaps maybe, just maybe, they were telling me how strong I was going to have to be.  

🤷🏼‍♂️♥️💪😊

As my discharge date rapidly approaches I feel like there’s a new pep in my step!  A week tomorrow and I’ll be home!  And it doesn’t hurt either to have another visitor today and a friend drop off dinner for me! 

 Thanks for stopping by Tom...it was great to see you and thanks for the yummy homemade cookies 🍪.

And thanks to Canham for my delicious homemade rib dinner! 🐖 

#Heartsmart

This was in the bag too...don’t worry, I drank it. 🙄

#Contraband

8 more sleeps... 🥱