Archive for May, 2010
One day, my husband and I went to an animal shelter with a friend who wanted to rescue a dog. I had never been to an animal shelter before. It was chaotic and noisy. We used to have dogs, but two years earlier we lost our last one. We missed her terribly.
When my brother Daniel went on a trip to the Eastern Coast of Canada, he had a minor accident, or so he believed. He had been walking on some slippery rocks along the coast and he slipped and fell. He instinctively stuck out his right arm to break his fall. In doing so, he came down on a twig that punctured his flesh and drove itself deep up inside his arm from the wrist almost to his elbow. Since I was not with him at the time, I do not know how he managed to remove the twig from his arm, but somehow, he did. He said he was sure he got it out intact, but within a few days, his arm began to fester. He went to the hospital in Halifax where he was told they would have to amputate his arm. Daniel freaked out and left with his festering appendage still attached.
When I was newly married, I wanted to do everything right. Every time I heard or read of something that would improve the quality of our lives, I tried to implement it in our home. One such device that I heard of was a humidifier. The article said it would balance the humidity in the air and was necessary for Canadian homes because central heating was notorious for drying out the air in the home during the winter months. The article even listed a series of symptoms that would indicate that the air was too dry in the house.