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Sheba, Wanted to wish you and all the posters here a Safe and Healthy Thanksgiving!
Then I read some of your posts. Let me say how I am so happy to hear your husband is doing well and recovered. This must have been so difficult with everything else going on. Can we just say you’ve had a year.

I’ve been busy with an annual thing I help with and it’s almost done. My Mother said 4 people at her place have Covid now, up from 2.

Here’s to ringing in the new year and leaving 2020 behind.

@sheba2011

Sheba, my heart goes out to you. Thank goodness your husband is strong and does exercise which is good for the heart and surrounding tissues and muscles. If he hadn’t been working in the yard or walking around who knows what could have happened. Maybe, now when you walk Poppy you should also walk hubby. I just wish you would have vented this sooner so we could have been there for you. Glad that the doctors and surgeons were able to repair the vessels and now he is feeling better than ever. The world of medicine is forever changing. Just think, less than 20 years ago this would not have been possible. You, the employees at work and the physician worked as a team and within 24-48 hours after he was able to walk out (Ok albeit, wheelchair ride) of the hospital and then driving around town. You really have something to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day.

We also went out for a bit to pick up last minute items. Could not wait to get back. Would you believe I couldn’t find my stuffing. There was none anywhere so I will be making mine from scratch which is OK. I will be making the turkey with all the fixings tomorrow just for the two of us. My entire family will be staying home as well. They are listening to the precautions. I was also surprised that there was very little traffic. Now I think I will rest up before tackling any jobs.

To All in the HSN Community. 😘🌹😎

@oodiebom,

Sleep Apnea and he has a C-Pap Machine. 😎😘

Creating Connections While Apart

If you are apart from your family, you can decide upon a reminder together, and create a simple ceremony of connection that defies any distance.

Life’s journeys may sometimes take us away from our families and friends, but there are many ways to stay connected. Aside from making use of the technology available–speaking on the phone or seeing each other from across cyberspace–we can create simple ceremonies using nature and our own thoughts to connect our hearts across the miles.

The first step in creating your ceremony is to look to nature for similarities in the different surroundings. The second step is agreeing upon something that is meaningful to all involved. If your mother loves birds, then perhaps each time you hear a bird chirp, you can think of her and mentally send love. You may choose the sight of a butterfly, the feel of a breeze or raindrops, or the scent of flowers to remind you of a special someone. The pink glow of sunset might be your favorite time to send a thought, or perhaps the warming oranges of sunrise. We can all see the sun, the moon, and an array of twinkling stars when we look to the skies. The monthly full moon may be your time to connect with your loved ones, or the first star you see each night, knowing that they, too, are gazing into the night sky and sending love. You could choose a day that you would usually celebrate together, such as a holiday or a solstice. If you once shared Sunday brunches in the garden, you can each seek out a garden on Sundays. Or you can choose a specific time and account for the time difference in order to connect by heart and mind at exactly the same moment.

With practice, we may learn to recognize the feeling that comes when a loved one sends energy our way, and the feeling of soul-to-soul communication. In this case, distance may indeed make our connections stronger. There is certainly much to make us think of our close friends and loved ones often, but when we decide upon a reminder together, we create a simple ceremony of connection that defies any distance.

@kittengirl,

You are in our hearts and on our minds during this difficult time. Sending kitty hugs. 😘🌹

Cherie,

Good Morning in S. Cali I hope you and the family have a safe Thanksgiving.

@shoelady60,

Good Afternoon in the burgh. 😘💕I will give Poppy a slice of turkey no bone.
I want to wish you, your mom and sister and of course hubby a nice and safe
Thanksgiving. 😘Most of all let Jake smell all that wonderful food. 💕

You were absolutely right about something last month on this thread.
Remember the day you asked if something was wrong because I half finished
the thread. Well your instincts were kicking in. My husband had a Heart Attack on
that day and I had to leave. It was on a Thursday they would not let me stay with him
in the ER. I thank god we have a world class hospital near us. To make a long story
short hubby is doing fine after a heart procedure. I have say it was a lonely three days.
I did not know what to say to anyone I keep in touch with our children and our family.
I have a large family. 😘 I decided to share this once he was out of the woods and he is
doing great. This man weighs 138 pounds of pure muscles and hubby have a fantastic
body. This seems to be genic so some changes are in order. Hubby has been doing
yard work and than some plus he is a workaholic. In other words he needs to slow down.

Happy Thanksgiving I have my paper from the Breast Center and it is a joy and relief.

All I can say is what a year. I could not re-do this year ever!! I am so thankful to god for
everything and for all the support I have received from all the girls on this thread. 😘

@71flowerchild,

Good Afternoon in Texas. Happy Thanksgiving and we are all blessed to be here.
Sending cool OZ hugs to Jewell and Little D I am sure they can smell the good eats. 😘

I wrote to Oodie and I am going to tell you last month my husband had a heart attack.
Hubby spent three days in the hospital with a heart procedure. Took 2 weeks off to enjoy
life. Hubby was driving and doing things a day after his release. We are thankful he
had no pain or shortness of breath. Everything turned out fine I was a mess. No one will
ever know what that was like and I hope they never do.

So I have a lot to be grateful for. I will miss my dad but I am moving forward.

@taci,

Good Morning in California. I hope you are getting your home ready for tomorrow.
Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. I know you will walk it out
when the feast is over. 😘🌹

@oodiebom,

Good Afternoon in Florida. I have finished my shopping and now I am chopping. 😘😘
Be safe out there I want you to enjoy Thanksgiving Day. I wish nothing but the best for
you and your husband. 🌹Oodie this is what I had to share with you almost a month
ago my 50 something 138 pounds of pure muscle husband had a heart attack.

Shoelady60 may have been on to something as she saw I had not finish the thread.
Hubby was at work and they called me I took a deep breath and raced to the hospital
to met him in the ER they would not let me be with him. Hubby just felt dizzy and the
EKG in the ambulance and in the world class hospital he was taken did not show a Heart
Attach only the blood work showed what was really happening. Hubby came out fine as
he did have a heart procedure he spent three days in the hospital. My husband have
never taken any kind of medicine in his life. Well superman was out driving a day after surgery
and went back to work in two weeks. Hubby works for a fortune 500 Company.

Oodie I did not share this because it seems there is always something. I am grateful my
hubby is doing fine all they put him on was two medicine for a year hubby was out doing
the yards and has lost none of his vigor. 😎😘 Oodie this was on a Thursday and they would
not let me stay with him the day of the surgery so I came and played Trivia with you which
was on a Friday. Hubby was released on a Saturday and we were out and driving that Sunday.

Now we both will have a nice Thanksgiving. 💕Oodie I never want to repeat that day.

@loaf,

Happy Thanksgiving Loaf to you and your entire family in Ohio. 😘🌹

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