Author: teambaer2
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ANGER
I can remember about twenty four years ago I felt ANGER to pit of my soul. I had never experienced such anger and I had no idea how to stop this emotion. I was angry at the world. I was angry at life. I was angry at everything and everyone. My life was on a…
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Strength
Strength can be defined as the emotional or mental qualities necessary in dealing with situations or events that are distressing or difficult. My husband has shown great strength and yet he feels so weak. This truly has taken a toll on him and here he is still alive. He would really impress himself if he…
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REALITY
The REALITY of how you feel doesn’t always fit in with the REALITY of your life. What I mean by this is I’m not always feeling good in some situations in life and I have to retained my feelings in order not to hurt the ones I love. The old saying “The truth will set…
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A YEAR
One year ago today my husband was implanted with his LVAD. As I sat in that waiting room scared, filled with fear and not knowing what the future would hold, not knowing if Joe would live, here we are a year later and HE’S ALIVE. This past year has had it’s ups and downs. The…
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Making Memories
This week we decided to take a trip across four states and with an LVAD patient it isn’t exactly practical especially in a car. But we did it and we got this. The memories we will have outweigh all the extra preparations we had to take. It was not something my husband wanted to do,…
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LIVING
Are we truly living? I’ve been asking myself for a while now. Is what we are doing really living? My mind thinks it is but my soul is wanting more. I want to explore, I want to enjoy everything there is in this journey of life we were given. I want to feel alive. I…
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EGGSHELLS
The saying Walking on Eggshells has come to my mind a lot lately. It feels like more and more that’s what I am doing. Although the changes I accepted in life are needed for me, some may not feel the same. No matter what I do or say, I feel I am Walking on Eggshells.…
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CHANGES
Today will never be like yesterday, the CHANGES I’ve had to make are going to be the life I know now. It’s not always easy to adjust to changes that were forced upon you. It’s been a year and we have learned to cope with all the changes in our life and I think we…
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WALK IN HIS SHOES
Until you’ve walked in HIS shoes you should not judge. Don’t speculate the way he feels, the way he handles life now or how he should do things. No one knows the what he is really going through but HIM. I wish he wasn’t so weak, I wish he didn’t have to go through this,…
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MISTAKES
Mistakes Early morning thinking has got to be the worst. Sitting on the shores of Lake Huron, watching a sailboat sail into the morning horizon has me thinking about a lot of mistakes I’ve made when my kids were young. It brings tears to my eyes because you can’t go back in time and change…
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Stillness
In the stillness of the morning I hear the LVAD pump humming and it sends a calming signal to my mind. He made it through another night. His life depends on this LVAD and on me. As much as he depends on it, so do I. I need him here, I need my husband alive,…
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Broken
I haven’t written in awhile because to be honest I feel BROKEN. I’ve watched my husband lose some battles in life and win some. I stood on the side lines, cried, cheered, encouraged, walked on egg shells and supported him the whole time. I am here no matter what and I just don’t feel it’s…
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SIMPLE
Life can be as SIMPLE as you make it. I’m happy here in my little house. I love my yard. I love my neighbors. I love living here. It’s a SIMPLE life and it’s just what is needed at this time. Choose SIMPLE it makes your life less complicated. That’s all I have today.
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WHY
As I sit here in the wee hours of the dawn, I just said “WHY” to myself and started sobbing. We had a drive by parade for my great niece’s birthday the other day, she lost her mom to cancer and it was her first birthday without her. As if it wasn’t bad enough that…
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Promise Kept
Well today was a PROMISE KEPT to my hubby. While he was hospitalized, he became weak, he couldn’t walk, he was losing hope and he needed an incentive to give him the motivation he desperately needed. So, of course I said to him that if he walked from the hospital chair to the bathroom in…
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JUST ME
In a world that has been turn upside down, I still just want to ME. Is that so wrong? Is that so selfish? I don’t want to change who I am. I don’t want to change my life. As this so call pandemic is in full swing, I sit today and I know that we…
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TODAY
I sat here for an hour trying to figure out what to write about, I had nothing. I was ready to close the computer and walk away. Then TODAY struck me just like that. TODAY is what I feel like writing about. Not sure why but it was there on the edge of my mind…
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See the Good
In my younger years I never could SEE THE GOOD in anything. I was negative, I was mad at the world, I didn’t like my life, I wished things were different and I didn’t know what had happened to the happy me. Well, I happened. It was me. It was my own destruction of my…
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Structural Change
I’ve heard this phrase Mass STRUCTURAL CHANGE when I was in High School. It’s resurface on some Facebook posts and in the media. I’ve been researching and reading on it and I do feel that the world is going through this right now. The world as we knew it will not be the same. This…
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Change
The world needed this CHANGE just for a short time. What we didn’t need was to feel so scared that it created anxiety, worry, isolation and hopelessness. The things that have been discussed over and over the past few months should of already been happening. Using common sense when sick should always be in place.…
Unconditional Love 