Hey , I've got to be real quick because school starts tomorrow. Mom is still doing great, albeit a little loopy. She tried to change the tv channel with her catheter today! She is tired and pain free while on her current cocktail of meds. This is good.
Doc says maybe Wednesday at the earliest for release.
I just wrote my students a first day of school letter....here is part of it (certainly influenced by mom and our journey over the last three years):
I hope that as you walk through these doors in the morning, or afternoon, or anytime…that you feel like this is a place where you are glad to end up. Even though it will push you and challenge you when you are sad and tired and wrestling with puberty, you will say at the end of the day that you belonged here, with each other, helping to make things a little easier. And so I end with a quote from Desmond Tutu:
“ Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Ms. Barrager
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Meg: I have no clue how to use facebook but just somehow found my way to my "posts" and aw all yours about your mom. I had no idea what you both have been going through, and now you are back at school! All this time I thought you were away in Oregon until school started. I will e-mail you and call you. I am so srry I wasn't present for you during this scary time! Love to your Mom, E
Thank you so much for your updates. It is such a relief to hear Diane is coping well and improving. Good luck with school and thank you for the inspirational quote. I want to share it with others. Please give my love to Diane, Sally S.
Good for Diane...continued good wishes for her speedy recovery...how lucky your students are, Megan....they are going to have a fantastic year....and so are y'all!.....2009 is turning out fine......love, Kathy
Thanks Meg. So glad to hear that you mom is doing well, and has a sense of humor trying to change the tv channels.
Your message to your students is beautiful. You will be an outstanding teacher for them.
Carole
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