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Today I sit her, in this blue recliner again, & thinking about how nthe New Year will be better.
I lost a majority of my hearing last March, so 2009 was officially the worst year ever for me, & if this chemo works, 2010 will be the best ever.
It is amazing how one's plans can be drastically changed, like for instance, I had plans to go to Elko, Nevada this Labor Day to see friends & get a job in a cow camp, but it is hard to do those things when you can't hear words or have balance problems.
If things did go as planned, I would be flying a fighter Jet for the Air Force & have the perfect family.
Now as it is, I can't ride Pardner to some of my favorite places or do the things I want, but I am learning the difference between want & need.
I am also learning that this is nobody's fault that I am like this & at least these tumors are benign.
This story has no morals, other than the fact that plans CAN change, whether we want them to or not.
I lost a majority of my hearing last March, so 2009 was officially the worst year ever for me, & if this chemo works, 2010 will be the best ever.
It is amazing how one's plans can be drastically changed, like for instance, I had plans to go to Elko, Nevada this Labor Day to see friends & get a job in a cow camp, but it is hard to do those things when you can't hear words or have balance problems.
If things did go as planned, I would be flying a fighter Jet for the Air Force & have the perfect family.
Now as it is, I can't ride Pardner to some of my favorite places or do the things I want, but I am learning the difference between want & need.
I am also learning that this is nobody's fault that I am like this & at least these tumors are benign.
This story has no morals, other than the fact that plans CAN change, whether we want them to or not.
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Comment by Wendy on January 1, 2010 at 9:55am -
Rusty, your story has a moral, a message to be conveyed. It's up to the reader to interpret it. Reading the comments I see many interpretations...attitude...fortitude...destiny.
You are teaching me to follow Hemingway's advice, "Live life to the fullest." Keep teaching us, Cowboy!
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Comment by Cita on December 31, 2009 at 11:29pm -
hm.... well, I guess I would be all sympathetic if the nurse hadn't been a hottie. Oh, yeah! She was NOT a hottie... ok... well, sniff, sniff.
Oh, and darlin', there is no f'in way we'd let you fly anything more than a paper airplane. (And you HAVE the perfect family you dilrod.)
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Comment by Michael Brown on December 31, 2009 at 8:27pm -
I admire your fortitude, Rusty. You've come through some pretty rough patches, and still you're smiling, where a lesser person (maybe myself included) would fold up and quit, or at least be complaining loudly. I hope 2010 IS your best year, and some of us can watch and learn how it's done.
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Comment by Ian Rochford on December 31, 2009 at 6:18pm -
Thank goodness it didn't affect your ability to write.
One of my favourite jokes last year was How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans...
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Comment by Teresa on December 31, 2009 at 5:43pm
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Your attitude is testimony to the adage, "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to what happens to us." I'm still learning this one.
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