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A year ago tonight we didn't realize Wayne's days were so short.  Only 8 days left!  I am posting what I wrote last year on February 15th, 2016, at a time Wayne was in the hospital, having gone in early on Valentine's Day with severe bleeding .  My dear husband Wayne, whom I have mentioned often, is now on a feeding tube and can't eat anything more by mouth.  His esophageal cancer is progressing, and he recently had a touch of pneumonia at the bottom of his right lung.  That indicated aspirating from the esophagus, and if he were to continue eating even small amounts, it could cause pneumonia often.  For the last few weeks he had been able to eat only food pureed, or liquified, and only a few bites of each food.  I even had to put Cream of Wheat with milk into a blender, and tapioca with milk into a blender.      This was taken with Wayne, our daughter Angie (Angela) and me, in September 2014, at my 80th birthday party, just afte...

This is right on target!  Great ways to be more calm!  I have had some wonderful family experiences this last week, and will write about them next. 10 Ways to Have More Calm in Your Life By Rynna Ollivier  · August 30, 2016 Recently at a community outreach health conference the guest speaker, a highly regarded doctor at a major medical center, talked about how he has treated more patients with stress related illnesses in the last five years than in his entire medical career. The list of ailments was extensive and troubling. Conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, asthma, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, eating disorders, gastrointestinal problems, diabetes, headaches, chronic body aches, autoimmune disease and Alzheimer’s are now believed to have a major stress component to them. According to  research  published in the  Journal of the American Medical Association , sixty to eighty percent of all phy...

This is a continuation of my mother Ruth Allen Miles's life, as she wrote it.  Her life story began in blog # 137, continued 138, 139, 140, 141, and 142.  Her birthday was May 10, 1908, and this May she would have reached age 106!  As Mother's Day approaches, I want to finish her writings in a few more entries.  Often her birthday was on or very near Mother's Day. Her writing continued:       The summer before the government had paid farmers $12 a head to kill their beef cattle because of the oversupply and depression.  They were not allowed to sell the meat but could use it "for their own families."  We went out to Panguitch when Earl killed several.  He gave us 2 veal (young beef) which we  bottled.   That was our meat for a few years.      The next winter Pratt was feeling some better.  Mother was with us.   We had 2 darling little girls and were doing a lot of public singing.   We now...