Still smiling, but sometimes it's hard...

Fell today in the backyard.  Fortunate to fall on our soft lawn and the fall leaves, but my left wrist (that did the brunt of catching me) and shoulder and neck all feel a little wrenched.  And wretched.  Sigh.

This is really the first time I have fallen full bore.  I guess I am going to have to stop acting like I can do everything I used to do, and take things a little slower and more carefully.  That is pretty foreign to me, but looks like the best option.

My dear friends from EPA, Julie and Stephanie, met me in Ft. Benton at the Grand Union last Friday.  We had a wonderful couple of days, starting with a great dinner at the Union Grille, and then a lovely chatty night and morning, and a drive on back roads to Tiber Reservoir to the see the North Central Regional Water intake facility.  I feel very involved with that, having supported Havre's participation (to guarantee a future increased water supply) as a council person early in my first term of office (2003-2007).  I like that we looked beyond our generation to do something for the next one.

I am fortunate to have such good friends, and Thursday I join William and Mary friends in San Francisco for a long weekend!  We have plans to tour wineries, do a spa morning, and generally enjoy talking and eating and drinking good wine.  What more can one ask of a long weekend, far from northcentral Montana?

I am driving down and back to Great Falls (2 hours) alone to get to and from the airport.  I am hopeful I can navigate the Salt Lake City airport with no difficulties with a 2 hour layover, but on the way back I had to order a wheelchair.  I had to use one in Dulles last summer, and I really do not relish the experience, but I cannot chance missing the plane. 

Pride goeth before a fall.  Literally.

Progression

Progression in ALS is not a good thing, unfortunately.  Today I almost fell down the stairs at work, and I should have taken heed, as later on I thought I could hurry across our tutoring lab to answer my phone, and I tripped right at the end and went down hard.

That is tough for me to face, but I will do it.  I am not able to do what I once did so very easily, and it makes me pause to think that is all in my past.  Still, I have much to look forward to in my future, and while different, it will still be good.

22 days and counting until my Cali Girls Adventure!  See, each day can be joyful.  You just have to look for it!