Sunday was good - well most of it was. I went flying early in the morning so Allie was still sleeping but when I got home I found out the she and Nancy went to the pool and spent an hour and a half there. One of Allie's friends was there and they just stood in the pool and chatted for a long time. Unfortunately many of her friend and support system will be heading off to college in the next few days. Hopefully that will not be to traumatic for her.
Today or tomorrow we will be finding out about her in home therapies and hopefully she will begin voice and piano lessons again next week also.
It's really different having her at home - it is great and she is really accellerating will in her recovery but still, there are no doctors or nurses there and thus no authority figure that she will take direction from without question. Mom and dad she can talk back to and defy and that is something we are learning to deal with. We are used to the back talk and the defiance but this is different. You know, serenity to accept the things .......
Allie gave me quite a scare yesterday, I told her I was going to my bedroom for a while and would be back out - she was watching Millie. I came out 30 minutes later and could't find her anywhere. I was going from room to room screaming for her and I was banging on her bedroom door and screaming her name. Her door was locked and of course when she was not answering I thought the worst and banged into the door. It sid not open and there was still no answer when I called so I banged it again and broke the door open and there she was lying in bed. I asked her why she did not answer and she said she was sleeping. I told her she must have heard me screaming and she just said she was sleeping and she did not have to answer if she didn't want to. Lesson learned - after I fix the door, no locks. I also found her roaming around the house at 3:30 this mornig. She said she couldn't sleep - another lesson learned - get those alarms in the windows. Phew, all is well.
Another lesson learned. I was flying back into Asheville airport yesterday when the haze really closed in as I was flying over the mountains bringing visability to 3 miles the lowest amount of visability for my rating and pretty much a yucky situation. From 6,ooo feet, three miles is not very much visability. I called the control tower to let them know our position and that we would be coming in for a full landing. They picked me up on radar and vectored me into position behing two other planes setting me up for landing in the third position letting me know the airport was seven miles ahead. With 3 miles visability that doesn't mean very much! After a few moments I knew the situation could get out of control with the mountains and low visability. I was already scheduled for landing but could not see the airport so I did what came naturally, I asked the tower (my higher power) for more direction and was guided by them until I could see the airport. Made the best landing ever by the way but what is the lesson? If you are lost, confused and cant see your way home; if you are in a dangerous situation or one that could get out of control; if you are in a situation that could be over your head just reach our and start speaking to your higher power, then listen and take action on the directions until you are in the clearing and back in control.
Full Recovery - Never a Doubt
Allie's Dad
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What an appropriate lesson to have shared today - I am afraid that my family and my husband's family here in OKC are dealing with quite a lot right now...cancer that appears to have spread when the diagnosis given said it was contained, thousands of miles between loved ones (though only for a short time - they are the ones most affected by this cancer - so distance is not a welcome obstacle right now) and a nasty custody battle over my precious two-year-old neice that SHOULD be ending this week with God's mercy on the precious baby! I am sure that it is easy to see what might seem overwhelming right now as this is only a fraction of what is going on, but your determination to make something positive out of the negatives that have entered into the lives of YOUR family over the last several months has given you the opportunity to minister to my spirit - many, many miles away and never having met me. For your ministry I am extremely grateful and I praise God that the same graces that brought YOUR family out of the depths of despair can and will also do the same for me and my family. And I praise Him for lessons learned by others that can be shared with so many!
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