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On Monday: I crawled out of bed, bumped my head on the bunk above me hit my knee on the locker stumped my toe on the toilet.
On Tuesday: I was tangled up in the sheets, unable to move my legs, my hands were in a vice, I rolled off the bed onto the cold floor.
On Wednesday: my eyelids were pressed closed, as tight as a prison door, I pushed them open with my fingers only to find a dark cell.
On Thursday: I awakened with a smile on my face and bounced out of bed to the music of the Grateful Dead, playing inside my head,
On Friday: I didn't want to open my eyes, holding on to the last [?] of a dream, my Jeanne's arms wrapped around me, her body tightly against mine, fading into memory.
On Saturday: her morning kiss awoke me, I climbed out of bed in my underwear into my pants leaving my love behind in a dream, I will find again tonight.
On Sunday: sleeping with my love, somewhere in the stars, at midnight her thoughts brought me wide awake, I jumped out of bed wanting to decipher her dreams, I wrote this down.
1/6/19
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Thanks for writing this, I hope my transcription is OK. I really enjoyed this beautiful prose/poem.
Writing here - and will try to get at least a note in the mail too (it can be a race) but this is so much easier - I know I can finish this, at least. Theresa posted on FaceBook last night that Mel has had a heart attack - she’s now at the cath lab so they can see how bad she is. She’s been admitted and will have to have surgery - I’m guessing bypass (hard to get info from Theresa because she’s so flustered). Theresa is at the hospital with her, so hopefully I’ll get more news as it happens - try to write this week-end, or at least add another post here.
I love you.
Your Jeannie
Hope you get both messages on the same day else you’ll be nuts - lol
So - I just hung up from talking to Mel - she’s doing better and will be released from Kaiser tomorrow - she’s going home with Theresa for at least a few days. Theresa is at 4411 Palm Ave - Sacramento, 95842 - if you want to send a note or anything.
Mel definitely had a heart attack - she didn’t have symptoms that she associated with heart - instead she was having acute indigestion and heartburn. I’d read somewhere that women often manifest heart problems like that - more so than men - one of the reasons they call this the “silent killer”. She was petrified when they told her they were going to do the heart cath and put in stents - her mom died during the same procedure. Her mom, however, had had a major attack - Mel’s was mild in comparison. Doctor told her that she can resume her normal routine in 2 days - except no lifting for 5 days.
Theresa wants her to just move in with her, but Mel doesn’t really want to do that - doesn’t want to give up her independence, I guess. Either way, Theresa will drive her nuts for awhile, fussing over her.
Ok - no other news right now. I hope all is well with you... I love you - for always and in all ways
Your Jeannie
Tomorrow (Monday) I go to the doctor - just routine (a Pap smear). I thought about changing it - Amber and the girls are going to the beach - but I really don’t want to go all that much. I don’t much like the beach - hate the sand, etc - they don’t have my ocean here - the Pacific, wild and free, thundering against the cliffs (no yucky sand - lol). Actually, what the clincher was - the thought of walking across all the sand to get to the water and then, worse yet, walking back after playing in the water <sigh> guess I’m just old!
Also - either Friday or Saturday I’m going to Valerie’s - in Alabama - and thought of how uncomfortable that trip would be with a sunburn - and there’s no way I’d avoid the burn, even using sunblock - I’m usually so white I’m fluorescent until much later in the summer - after a few weeks of our pool.
I told Amber that I’ll regret not going as soon as I see them leave - lol - but it’s for the best...
I love you - on my way to bed now - sweet dreams - I’ll see you in mine.
All my love - always and all ways...
Your Jeannie