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What a Difference a Day Makes

October 25, 2011 - Posted by Ellie

I like today – how about you?

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be,
it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Today I’m energetic and effective and efficient. It feels exceptional. Yesterday I was disjointed, dodging and discouraged. It felt dreadful.

But what really tickles me today is how much I like this sense of being present and accountable. What happened overnight to effect this change? Two things come to mind: technology and slipping back into, or at least close to, my comfort zone.

You see, the technology I’ve depended on has been secretly failing, losing one little capability at Continue reading » What a Difference a Day Makes

Rescued by an Instant Support System – Just Add Trouble

March 16, 2010 - Posted by PattiAnn

This post is part of the Patients for a Moment: Show Me the Love ChronicBabe.com Blog Carnival hosted by Jenni Prokopy, the Editrix.

photo credit: ronocdh

Friends are born, not made.

— Henry B. Adams

Last Wednesday, my friend, Teri, was run over by a car – literally. It was, in the classic definition of the word, an accident. The driver and the victim knew each other. They live just down the street from each other. Part of the cause of the accident was assuming and the other part was hurry.

The car was parked in the driveway. Teri saw that her neighbor was in the car, the engine was on and she saw the driver check behind her. Teri assumed that the driver saw her and that the driver wouldn’t pull out quickly, so she walked behind the car.

The driver was in a hurry. She looked behind her, saw nothing in her path and gunned the engine – she was running late. POW!! Teri was Continue reading » Rescued by an Instant Support System – Just Add Trouble

Angels to the Rescue

January 5, 2010 - Posted by PattiAnn

photo credit: robad0b

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

— Luciano de Crescenzo

Happy New Year and welcome to 2010! Whether we want it or not, the new year is here. In the past, I’ve usually greeted the new year as an opportunity full of possibilities, I must confess that this New Year I am less than enthusiastic about the future.

You may have noticed (or maybe you didn’t) that for the last two weeks of December, Ellie was the lone voice writing here on BouncebackCafe.com. Up to this point, through a combination of good planning and luck, we’d pretty much managed to balance out the writing assignments during good times and bad. Thanks to Ellie for filling in during one of the busiest times of the year.

This post is the story of how my father was rescued from a potentially disastrous situation by the often unsung angels who watch out for us every day.

You Just Never Know…

My father had taken his annual December trip to visit my sister and her kids. He goes to see the various Christmas shows in which his grandkids are “stars.” Usually he is there for Continue reading » Angels to the Rescue