Life - simple but, always complicated!!

The news wasn't great when I first heard it, Mindy Maggio was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in March of this year. A tough hand to be dealt to such a nice, and I mean very nice human being. Nice will get you lots of respect, friends, love, but it cannot and will not get you a better hand on the health front. If it did, then my Mom, Aunt Ann, Spreter, Cyndi Keats, Thornton, Muench , ....would still be with us enjoying their friends, families and life.  Refer to  Only the Good Die Young   🔗🔗 Mindy and her husband were coming upon their 41st wedding anniversary 🥰🎁. Two of their sons, Nate and Justin, are getting married this summer. That's what a mother of three sons  has always been preparing to witness and celebrate, not fighting the war against cancer. I can see Mindy beaming with pride and joy, dancing the mother-son dance.  It isn't really fair unless you trust and believe in God. God rewards us in ways we we didnt expect or wanted. Still it's h

An ABC News Studios documentary talks with survivors of the 1972 plane crash into the Andes, where 16 men spent 72 days fighting to make it back home.  PRISONERS IN THE SNOW https://abcnews.go.com/US/survivors-1972-uruguay-plane-crash-revisit-tale-extremes/story?id=98405303  Survivors of 1972 Uruguay plane crash revisit their tale of going to the extremes to live.  I was fascinated by the real life story of survival of this Uruguayan rugby team.  I read the book ALIVE  in an English class durng my junior year in high school. We had discussions about the book , including the survival methods of the rugby players. I don't remember any of that at all But, the courage, bravery , and determination of all who initially survived the crash is captured well in the two hour documentary, Prisoners of the Snow. The story has been told many times in books.and movies.  Roberto Canessa (left) and Nando Parrado upon reaching civilization. "Death has an opposite, but th

❤️  It was January 1987, a Thursday, the 15th of the month. My wife was pregnant with our first child,  in the first trimester of pregnancy.. Finally, she was beginning to feel better after being hospitalized with hyperemesis. The physical complications due to   hyperemesis are an inability to perform daily functions,  and the lack of adequate nourishment. Most of December she was not well. At the end of December, she was severely dehydrated, malnourished, and her electrolytes were out of whack. A hospital stay was needed.🤔 Even before the hospital stay , Linda had to stay home from work due to the complications of hyperemesis. She lay on the couch eating only ice chips and maybe some jello.The visiting nurse service brought IV's  for nourishment. Instead of gaining weight, Linda was losing weight. The doctors assured us that the fetus, our baby was getting adequate nourishment. The baby siphons off nourishment before the mother gets hers.  Instead of a ver