A Visit With Dr. Woody

Ginny took off work Friday to drive me to my mid-morning appointment with Dr. Woody.

After a leisurely breakfast lingering over coffee at Dave’s Diner, we drove to a nearby park to smoke and talk about our vacation plans next month. We so enjoyed ourselves that we were almost late getting to the doctor’s office.

As soon as he came into the exam room Dr. Woody told us that in an hour he and his wife were leaving to drive to Carolina where her father has had a debilitating stroke.

The old gentleman is in his 80s but has lived a fiercely independent life on his own before this stroke. He served as a medic during World War II and served in the D-Day Invasion of Europe.

Dr. Woody said his father-in-law is an intense, strongly focused man who finds the limitations imposed by this stroke greatly frustrating.

Dr. Woody and his wife face some difficult decisions, medical and practical, about the old man’s life-style and care.

What a heavy thing to carry.

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You Don’t Have To Speak Portuguese

My son Donald send me this link to a site in Brazil:
http://jorgebll.blogspot.com/2007/10/tome-sobre-si-sua-cruz-e-siga-me-mat.html

It’s a blog for October 12^th. I do not understand a word of the text, but I find scrolling down the cartoon strip intriguing.

It’s based on Matthew 16:24 where Jesus says, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me…”

I wonder what this strange cartoon teaches?