It's March 1st!

Today is March 1st! Shocking! This year has flown by. I am happy to report I have 26 treatments done! I am scheduled for 15 more and then my doctors and I will decide if I should continue them longer. I have certainly had my fill of movies! More movies than I have watched in my entire life. I must admit “Survivor All Stars” has been great! Also great to watch on the treadmill (run whenever they run and don’t allow yourself to get off the treadmill till someone gets kicked off). Oh and I watched Mama Mia and thought about my cousin Lisa and sister Cyndy the whole time! I almost cried when they sang “Super Trooper”. I remember singing that with Lisa and Cyndy over and over.
I am excited to tell you how well my leg is doing. While I will always have this disease, the infection is gone and I am out of danger for losing my leg, at least anytime soon. I have been amazed by “The Tender Mercies” of the Lord in my life these past few months. It is not a coincidence last October I randomly met three people who asked me if I had heard of Hyperbaric Treatment, causing me to seek out doctors I didn’t need yet, but would urgently need in January. It certainly is not just luck our insurance company has not said one word other than “OK” for a very expensive and experimental treatment. And was it a coincidence our family moved half way across the country to literally 3 minutes away from one of the only Hyperbaric Centers in the United States? (By the way the hyperbaric center opened in August, two months before I started my struggle with my leg). I know that our Father in Heaven is just as aware of each one of you, no matter if you believe in him or not and he loves you more than you can comprehend, and if you look closely you will be able to see those tender mercies in your life to.

“The tender mercies of the Lord are real and . . . they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Often, the Lord's timing of His tender mercies helps us to both discern and acknowledge them. . . . The Lord's tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts…” ~ David A. Bednar

I want to also thank you all so much for your love and comments and EXERCISE! I think there are about 65 of you! You’ll never know how much it has meant to me! I am so blessed to be eternally connected to so many of you!

A Special Hello to my friends in Hudson

I want to shout a hello, kisses and hugs to my friends in Hudson! Here is a picture of one of the mountains here in Bend. Gwenyn…oh I wish I could talk to you in the tube, it really would make my time fly by! And Linda, I cried when I read your post. You have been so much on my mind. I miss you and thinking of you and Aimee exercise for me makes me burst with Joy! Lori Feia, I wish I could hang out with you in the cul-de-sac and talk about the boys (I mean our boys, not “boys”…lol).. I know living next to you was one of the Lord’s blessings in my life. Pam, I miss talking to you so much! I hope things are going well for you! And Annette…I am excited about your new little one and you live not so far away from me. Leiani, thank you for being inspired to email me. I needed to hear from you and my Hudson friends. You are so in tune with the spirit, and I think Heavenly Father paged you to email me J. Amy Hess, thanks so much for the email, Mackenzie still talks about Brayden all the time. I am so glad I got to know you last year. Beth I miss you, I hope we can talk soon. I hope you know how much of my heart you own and I think about you all the time!

Love,

Amy