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request for prayers (Monday, August 20, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM) [Post a Comment]

Dear Friends,  I have been steadly getting worse these past weeks.  The pain has stolen day after day of my time with friends and family.  I just finished another round of antibiotics.  The infection and the antibiotics have made me sick.   I am so discouraged.   Please pray for healing in my body.  I want to be well and pain free. 

with love,

carolaina 


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Better weekend (Monday, July 23, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM) [Post a Comment]

Having a better day.  The weekend went well and I am still doing well today.  My abdominal area seems to have settled down. 

 More brain changes have occured.  My eyes are not focusing together; this has happen before about a year go and then they kinda matchup in focusing a few months later.  My sight since the accident has been blurry, fuzzy, jittery, and swirlly.  The eyes not focusing together makes seeing more fuzzy and jittery.   I can Not find  a focal point espically when i try to draw.  My brain cannot figure out where to set the pencil about the paper and connect what i see to where the objects should go in a perspective.    My depth perception is shallow and that comes out in my art work.  It appears my left eye is the one causing the focusing problems; its depth perception is shallower than my right eye.  Several times a day I will be going to do something and I go to the wrong room; i realize this when i get to the wrong room and have to redirect myself to the room I intended to go to. 

Tiring out quickly is also an issue. I tire out long before I am ready to quit.  But with less to no pain I did not tire out in tai chi this morn.  

I spent some time signing some art this morning and that did tired me out.

 This past weekend We went to one of my favorite parks and I sketched while there.  I tried to sketch the log cabin but my mind could not figure out how to draw it.  It is a basic box shape  with a lean-on porch and an high wood shingled roof; but i could not figure out the angles.

I did manage a nice sketch of a pile of flat bottom rental fishing boats on the bank beside the small lake. While I was sketching the pile of boats one or two were carried off by soon to be fishermen.  I had the jest of the outlines so it was not big deal.  I can draw with or with out an object and it will look fuzzy either way, grins.  

 My sis called and told me she loved the paintings I mailed to her.  She loved the flowers but wondered what they were.  I said they could be called mums. 

Take care my dear friends. 


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art Gallery (Tuesday, July 3, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM) [Post a Comment]

Dear Friends and Family,
 
I now have an on line art gallery.  I will add new paintings about once a month.  Painting has been my solance and a means of watching myself heal.  Every painting tells my story of recovery from a blood vessel breaking in my head and having emergancy brain surgery.  I am legally blind and a miss being able to drive.  My blindness has two accpects that affect my life greatly; one i am complettly blind in the right corners of my eyes.  I can see out of the left corners but it is skewed to say in the simplest. The recovery has been slowed because of two more surgieres one to embolize a uterus full of fibroids and the other was to remove a ping pong size polup from my colon.  The colon spasms and hemroids have been the bain of my life this past year; meds are finally seeming to help cool things down in the abdomenal area. 
 
I am proud to present to you my art gallery:
 

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pre-menopause (Saturday, June 9, 2007 - 10:49:00 AM) [Post a Comment]

I was unsure if i would be able to make it to the star party but it seems it will not be.  I was hoping and had made the resolve to come but I awoke to another period.  Don and I are about to pull our wits out.  I have prayed God protect our relationship and but a hedge of protection about us.  I wonder when this mess will have a clearer time in our lives and we will not be meet day after day without crises.  I am hoping my pre-menapause is a short one and does not linger.  But I would like to think I can deal with about anything so long as I am without physical pain.  My track record I am looking back over is not very good  at dealing.  I run away from conflict and try to smooth and sooth.  So I can at least see a pattern and so maybe a can break something free.   I want to have a fight with Don and then make up; we have to be so intellectual through all this mess.  Pre-menapuase is not intellecual.  I was raised to be gracefull in all situations; I do not think this will be a graceful transistion and keep my sanity.  I am going to be messy and fight back with all intent of winning.  I am serously thinking about getting a T shirt that says "I am Pre menopausal; you have been warned."  I think the timid shell of mine is cracking. 
 
It is more than pre-menopuase that has brought this attitude of  standing up for myself; it is an accumilation of many events over the years and especially the past five.

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painting and resting (Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM) [View Comment or Post a Comment]

Dearest Friends and Family,
I sketched the columbine this morning on a large sheet of watercolor paper. I plan on sketching a few to paint later.  And then I just had to try to paint the columbine.  I knew I would have to do it quickly and have the painting completed within this morning.  With the brain changes and sight changing like Arkansas weather I knew I woulld have to work fast within this brain moment time frame.  I could say all the things the painting is not, but my goal was to paint the picture and I did. 
 
Yeah Rebeca came this morning and we tai chi'ed.  Ben was a mess and wanted attention.  He was so in the way. He usually just watches us.  I played with him later.  He was like a child in a swing just meow-howling with so much happyness. 
 
The resting on top of resting is paying off.  The resting is making me down sad though.  I feel like so much time is just being lost.  I thirve on being productive.  And I have not been able to be doing what I really want.  Scaled back only to find I could not even to those little things for very long.  Thank the Lord we have a house keeper and gardner.  One does not have to be weatlth to have such help; that is just where we chose to spend some of our money.  So well worth it for us.  It calms my spirit.  I cannot do it all, so I pull in resources that will help me accomplish what I want and need. 
My friend Alison went to Little Rock today and one of the places she stops is Hobby Lobby.  She is going to pick up some watercolor paper for me.  She called and she found three differnt kinds of paper that are suitable for watercolor painting.  I called her back to see if she might see if they had any bamboo paint brushes.  She found a set of brushes and one that had long brisels. (It will be interesting to see what I end up with) And she found a book on chinese painting so I should be set. 
 
I Had been using the internet and the library for resources on Asian painting. I will now have my own book to add to my libary.  It will be interesting to see what the book is like.  Alison when she found the book said it was perfect.  It should be for 25$.  I spend too much money on art supplies and I am feeling a little un easy about it.  But I needed the paper; the other stuff is just fluff stuff.  Though if even one of the brushes is like I am hoping for that will be super wonderful.  It is always good to have a new book friend. I am anxious to see this new book.  Alison said she would either bring it by today or tomorrow. 
I would love to hear from you; leave a little note.  Take care, Carolaina

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