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A Life Poem
Life can seem ungrateful and not always kind.
Life can pull at your heartstrings and play with your mind...
Life can be blissful and happy and free...
Life can put beauty in the things that you see...
Life can place challenges right at your feet...
Life can make good of the hardships we meet...
Life can overwhelm you and make your head spin...
Life can reward those determined to win...
Life can be hurtful and not always fair...
Life can surround you with people who care...
Life clearly does offer its Up and its Downs...
Life's days can bring you both smiles and frowns...
Life teaches us to take the good with the bad...
Life is a mixture of happy and sad...

So...

Take the Life that you have and give it your best...
Think positive, be happy let God do the rest...
Take the challenges that life has laid at your feet...
Take pride and be thankful for each one you meet...
To yourself give forgiveness if you stumble and fall...
Take each day that is dealt you and give it your all...
Take the love that you're given and return it with care...
Have faith that when needed it will always be there...
Take time to find the beauty in the things that you see...
Take life's simple pleasures let them set your heart free...
The idea here is simply to even the score...
As you are met and faced with Life's Tug of War

I woke up today with another phone call that changed my day as I had planned and now my dad needed to be taken to the Emergency room once again as he could not empty his bladder. My mom needed me at the hospital as they could not do the tests they planned on doing as the dyes were not allowing them to be mixed with the tests so they were changing the plans from the night before and now I had my dad and mom both at the hospital but the positive was I dropped my dad off at ER and I told them I had to leave and go to the 4th floor as my mom was having procedures on her heart today and they could reach me there...they were very understanding and kept my dad all day for me..He was released and I had to decide what to do with him as he kept me up for two straight nights and last night Kerry and Lindsay had him at his house and I stayed home to sleep and he kept them up all night so I am really at a loss but I had to call and ask my brothers for help and I am left alone...so I am putting him in the nursing home for the week until we can get things with my mom straightened out and hopefully then we can handle having dad here...They had to put a cathater back in him and he has another infection in his bladder. Then he is still having small strokes..I was told this will keep happening and that it is not going to be an easy road ahead for us. He will be in Lakewood Nursing home by our house so I can go see him and he is close to us..

My mom came through very well. She has one part that is 60 percent blocked but he couldn't reach it as it was to risky and the other two are still open..then her aorta is very rough and filled up with plaque but we are thankful for the good news..they are still concerned for the blood clot test that is high in the blood work and they will still have to figure out if she has blood clots in her lungs..I am just thankful that this part is over and a good report for what we were looking for..Just pray for direction and for my father as he is up at night and wandering...he gets confused and so unlike him...it is a strain on us as we are all just physically and mentally exhausted this week...hugs, cheryl