Author: Sheryl

  • O! How I Love the Hospital

    Innumerable thanks for all the encouragement and prayers!  This last week has been better, and I know it is because God is at work and so many of you are helping him.  Thanks for caring! Tomorrow morning (Friday), I will arrive at the hospital at 6 AM for outpatient surgery.  The goal is to remove […]

  • Waiting for the Red Bird

    Struggle seems omnipresent in my life lately.  No matter how much I wish it away, it doesn’t catch on and leave.  My health has been wearing me down—all the doings with my thyroid and now my uterus has jumped back on the bandwagon.  In short they keep growing things they shouldn’t.  My thyroid produces nodules […]

  • When Negative is Positive

    The biopsies weren’t as horrible as I’d imagined, but it’s not something I’d ever volunteer to do again. If you’ve got to, you’ve got to, but . . .

  • 6 Weird Things

    I really don’t like too much routine in my personal life.

  • Bravery and Grace

    I think bravery must really be grace in action. God doesn’t give us grace till we need it.

  • Out of the Mouth of Babes

    Who needs smooches and squeezes?

  • I am NOT a Pincushion

    Four needle sticks, 1 small bruise and 1 large hematoma later and no one was able to get more than a drop of blood out of me.

  • 2006 and Me

    How would you rate this year with a scale from 1 (excrement) to 10 (excellent)?

  • Exceptional Me

    You know it can’t be good when the doctor is doing the exam and her comments escalate from “crazy” to “insane” to “unbelievable.”

  • If I Were a Rich (Wo)Man . . .

    I’m always on the lookout for the perfect thing to give to someone I love. It’s not that I’m such a shop-a-holic. I enjoy it, but I can go without it for a long time. I can also spend hours looking without buying anything.