Here I Am /๐\ Heenaynee <> ืื ื ืื ื <> May You Be Inscribed And Sealed In The Book Of Life For A Wonderful Year!!
Last Friday's Holiday Marigolds.
This is the week of the Jewish High Holidays between Rosh HaShanna and Yom Kippur... The Days Of Awe...
We are each reviewed, everyone in the world, and our fate was Inscribed in The Book Of Life on Rosh HaShanna and the verdict will be Sealed on Yom Kippur, a major day - actually 25 hours - of fasting and repentance... We own up to all our behaviors that we wish we had not done, and the things we wish we had done...It's a great time to plan to fill the coming year with desirable and needed changes and improvements!!
I'm writing this addition on Tuesday October 11th. Though I didn't expect to, I survived this week. Baruch Ha Shem! Blessed Be The Name. I survived, and that's a good thing! Baruch Ha Shem!!
May you be inscribed and sealed in The Book Of Life for a peaceful and good year, filled with Joy and Fulfillment and Lots of Blessings!!
_________
I awakened early on Friday and took my morning meds. I was quite anxious!! For the first time in a month, I took a sip of Jim Beam & felt calm. I took some almost-dawn photos of a heritage pomegranate flower. ๐ธ I realized that my heart was not racing. Wow. That was a new feeling. I thought - perhaps the medication I have been taking for a month and a half is beginning to have an effect.
I finished packing my overnight bag and was driven to the hospital. Checked into the cardiac unit where the fabulous staff prepped me for the cardioversion procedure. It is supposed to shock my heart to beat at the proper rate, and more coordinated, so it would actually pump blood. I undressed and donned the hospital gown.
An EKV was taken. I asked them to measure my heart beat rate because I felt pretty good. The said they will tell the nurse to measure my heart rate. The normal procedure was followed, so that never happened. :-)
My upper torso was shaved and I rested. As I was dozing, my nurse came in for the first time. She introduced herself and said the cardiac surgeon had just seen my EKV. He said my heart rate was normal, I did not need the procedure, and I should go home!!!!! He also said I should continue the medication my cardiologist had prescribed, and that I should schedule an appointment with my cardiologist.
So, the curtains were closed, I got dressed, and called my caregiver firm's office. An hour and a half after my arrival, my caregiver picked me up and drove me home.
Later, after finally eating breakfast, we went to Nadine's Bakery and then to Target to pick up some things for Shabbat. Seeing these potted marigolds I realized that I might be able to actually function in the garden, so I bought one pot for the High Holidays...
Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
3.8-247.0mm
ฦ/5.6 64.6 mm 1/100 500 Flash (off, did not fire)
iPhoneography
Post processed using Pixlr App on my iPhone 6 Plus
There is another part of this story. I will write it at a later time. I am posting this tale by W. Somerset Maugham because it bears on my story.
"The Appointment in Samarra"
(as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933])
The speaker is Death
There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
Here I Am /๐\ Heenaynee <> ืื ื ืื ื <> May You Be Inscribed And Sealed In The Book Of Life For A Wonderful Year!!
Last Friday's Holiday Marigolds.
This is the week of the Jewish High Holidays between Rosh HaShanna and Yom Kippur... The Days Of Awe...
We are each reviewed, everyone in the world, and our fate was Inscribed in The Book Of Life on Rosh HaShanna and the verdict will be Sealed on Yom Kippur, a major day - actually 25 hours - of fasting and repentance... We own up to all our behaviors that we wish we had not done, and the things we wish we had done...It's a great time to plan to fill the coming year with desirable and needed changes and improvements!!
I'm writing this addition on Tuesday October 11th. Though I didn't expect to, I survived this week. Baruch Ha Shem! Blessed Be The Name. I survived, and that's a good thing! Baruch Ha Shem!!
May you be inscribed and sealed in The Book Of Life for a peaceful and good year, filled with Joy and Fulfillment and Lots of Blessings!!
_________
I awakened early on Friday and took my morning meds. I was quite anxious!! For the first time in a month, I took a sip of Jim Beam & felt calm. I took some almost-dawn photos of a heritage pomegranate flower. ๐ธ I realized that my heart was not racing. Wow. That was a new feeling. I thought - perhaps the medication I have been taking for a month and a half is beginning to have an effect.
I finished packing my overnight bag and was driven to the hospital. Checked into the cardiac unit where the fabulous staff prepped me for the cardioversion procedure. It is supposed to shock my heart to beat at the proper rate, and more coordinated, so it would actually pump blood. I undressed and donned the hospital gown.
An EKV was taken. I asked them to measure my heart beat rate because I felt pretty good. The said they will tell the nurse to measure my heart rate. The normal procedure was followed, so that never happened. :-)
My upper torso was shaved and I rested. As I was dozing, my nurse came in for the first time. She introduced herself and said the cardiac surgeon had just seen my EKV. He said my heart rate was normal, I did not need the procedure, and I should go home!!!!! He also said I should continue the medication my cardiologist had prescribed, and that I should schedule an appointment with my cardiologist.
So, the curtains were closed, I got dressed, and called my caregiver firm's office. An hour and a half after my arrival, my caregiver picked me up and drove me home.
Later, after finally eating breakfast, we went to Nadine's Bakery and then to Target to pick up some things for Shabbat. Seeing these potted marigolds I realized that I might be able to actually function in the garden, so I bought one pot for the High Holidays...
Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
3.8-247.0mm
ฦ/5.6 64.6 mm 1/100 500 Flash (off, did not fire)
iPhoneography
Post processed using Pixlr App on my iPhone 6 Plus
There is another part of this story. I will write it at a later time. I am posting this tale by W. Somerset Maugham because it bears on my story.
"The Appointment in Samarra"
(as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933])
The speaker is Death
There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.