Work-week, and woohoos, and my sister

Have I really gone for five days without journaling? It's been quite a full week.

This evening, while waiting for the night time cough suppressant to kick in (which by now, it has, thank you), I played around with the woohoo feature provided by aol.

Here's my woohoo!

                               

It worked on my test journal, so let's see if it will work here too. This is just an experiment using some of my pictures saved on my computer. No particular theme. A couple of zoo pictures, some family photos, the dogs, the pond... things I usually put in my journal.

I like the Ken Burns effect, the panning across the photo. Gives it some movement. If you want to try the woohoo slideshow, which I first read about at aol pictures and at JournalsEditor Magic Smoke, you can click here to create your own!

As soon as I figure out how to put it on my AIM page I will probably create a woohoo with a central theme.

Finally, on a more serious note, I would like your prayers for my sister, Joy, whom I wrote about on New Year's Day. She was having chest pains Wednesday while she was at work (she's a nurse at a state hospital). She didn't tell anyone right away because she's had them before, but thank goodness she decided to tell some of her co-workers there, and one of them drove her to the hospital. That's where she learned she'd had a mild heart attack. Yesterday, one artery blockage (80%) was removed, and a stint was put in its place.

So many people, especially men, ignore those first pains in the chest because they are somewhat bearable. She called it angina. She is recovering, and will be allowed to go home when her blood pressure and other vitals return to normal rates.

Fortunately, she was in a hospital and was able to get immediate medical attention. Had it happened at her home, she may not have been as fortunate, as she lives on a lake in the country, very far from any hospital.

She sounded pretty good today when I called her on the phone, but I would still like for any of you who pray to add her to your list. I cannot be with her at this time, but was happy to hear that her children and our two brothers had visited her, and she has heard from our mother, and other brothers who live in California.

Thank you for your prayers!

I started coughing again about midweek, and because it seems to be getting worse instead of better, I called the doctor again... my voice is gone again due to the excessive coughing. She thinks I've caught another bug. I had actually recovered from the one I contracted just before the Christmas holidays.

So I'm on medicine again, and the humidifier is running at night, drinking lots of fluids... yada-yada-yada... taking care of myself. It must be the new school, new germs, ... you think?