I was turning my calendar . . .

[lowell holmes]

and this year is slipping by. I did not use to think about it, but I am thankful I lived another month.
I had a heart attack years ago and survived, so I remember each month and I am thankful when I do.
SWMBO puts up with me still and I am thankful for that also.
I do not take her for granted.

[Zachary Hoyt]

I won't be turning my calendar till Monday, unless I'm mixed up again.

[John Stankus]

Me. I am usually a couple of months behind on changing the calendar.


...except for my desk pad calendar at the office, which I think is still somewhere in 2014... Though with the desk at school, I don't always dig down to the strata the desk pad is on (it actually gets changed when there are too many stains and marks on it)

[Bruce Wrenn]

For us, it's remembering to mark doctor appointments on new calendar before trashing old one. Of course after we transfer them, something changes. We always get calendar with large enough blocks to write appointments and special days on.

[Ron Citerone]

and this year is slipping by. I did not use to think about it, but I am thankful I lived another month.
I had a heart attack years ago and survived, so I remember each month and I am thankful when I do.
SWMBO puts up with me still and I am thankful for that also.
I do not take her for granted.

Had my first heart attack 14 years ago and another 5 years ago. I'm one of the lucky ones. Every day means more to me because of them.........................the gift of it is it teaches you to smell the roses!

[Kev Williams]

Personally, I'd like last year's calendar back...

- our 2021 so far--
Jan 2, wife's aunt (her dad's sister) passes away at 97, old age.
Jan 6, wife's dad celebrates 92nd birthday
Jan 15, dad has a mini-stroke
Jan 17, dad suffers a major stroke
Jan 18, dad passed away. Funeral set for today, Jan 29.
We immediately put wife's mom on 24 hour care until we can arrange a rest home.
Jan 24 early morning, I go into a full-body anaphylactic allergic reaction. Hives, itching, swelling, head to toe. No idea why, they tell me it could be stress (ahem).
Jan 24 late night, wife's mom sneaks past our grandaughter to make a sandwich.
--she falls, badly. Based on her day's vitals, her nurses say a mini-stroke likely caused the fall.
Jan 26, mom's nurses tell us she having more mini-strokes, and likely won't survive the fall.
Jan 27, about 8pm, mom passes. She was about to turn 90 in April. Funeral home steps up to prepare a double funeral for today.
Yesterday I had my steroid and antihistamine meds adjusted. This whatever I got just sucks everything out of me. Feels like the flu but with occasional fun of feeling like my skin is on fire.
Today at the funeral, a cousin of the wife looks at me and says 'uh-oh, you look just like my ex'- she explained that he got Covid last March and didn't know it, and about a month later the hives crap started up, explained as a possible side effect of the Covid. And he still has it...

And, there's still 2 days left in this month..
My poor wife is about numb from it all. And not comfortably.

On a somewhat positive note, my wife's parents spent their entire adult lives in the same house, raised 5 kids in it, passed away peacefully of old age in it, and all 5 kids were at the funeral.

[George Bokros]

Kev, you and your family are in our prayers. You have had a January like no one should ever experience. May God bless you with a better remainder of this year.