Exhausted

There simply isn’t enough time in the day!  How many people say that?  

We had a nice trip home to Kentucky for a couple days this weekend to get some of the wedding stuff done.  I think it’s going to work out alright.  Part of the trip including revisiting Hermitage Farm to pick out where exactly we wanted to get married.  I missed out on the house last time so made sure I was all geared up for some stairs.  Upstairs, downstairs… the house is absolutely amazing.  Really incredible.  Built in 1840 or something nuts like that.  Now it’s owned by the Brown family - or rather the wife is a Brown - that is one of Louisville’s wealthiest families.  Pretty cool stuff.  There was even a chair made from a saddle, which I thought was pretty cool.  

After getting to the basement the gang encouraged me to just walk out the side door and up the two measly stairs to get back to the main lawn.  The only thing was that they had no railing and I wasn’t really practiced in doing that with the crutches.  I fell for the first time while walking (I’ve fallen trying to stand up a couple times).  It was pretty humbling.  They were also brick steps and thanks to my lack of movement in the legs, they kind of just banged into the bricks.  I felt that!  No loss of sensation there!  Haha… oh well I guess it had to happen eventually.  Frankly, I was wondering if I wasn’t pushing myself hard enough since I hadn’t really fallen.  

I haven’t done a stair marathon since I did the whole building over a week ago.  I’ve just been so worn out from work, therapy, wedding planning, etc., that it didn’t seem like a good idea.  But I WILL be climbing as much as I can of the Sears (Willis) Tower on Nov. 3!  If you feel like throwing a few bones to the cause (all proceeds go to RIC), you can read about it here:

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It’s 2,109 stairs and I think they are giving me a 5 hour time limit.  I’m just going to keep on trucking up those stairs until something gives out.  It might very well be my shoulders before the legs.  We shall see.  It would be helpful if my left leg could step up as well so please pray for that!

Speaking of prayer, I met a guy recently at RIC that really needs a helping of it.  I won’t give a name since he doesn’t know I’m doing it, but he’s been at RIC for about 6 weeks and is really having a hard time emotionally/mentally with the change, much as I did and continue to do.  I am going to keep visiting him on the 7th floor sometimes after I finish my therapy.  He is a C6 injury, which means a fair amount further up than me, affecting his arms and hands a bit, his trunk, and of course, his legs.  Please pray for him and his wife.

Work is certainly keeping me busy, as is wedding planning.  It seems ridiculous that so much planning goes into something that lasts a day.  But I guess you could say it lasts a lifetime, too.  It should be fun, though.  

Work, however, is exhausting me.  I hope that it all has some sort of meaning.  I want to positively influence the staff as much as possible.  It’s extremely hard to do.  You can pray for that, too, if you want.  

God bless and g’night - 

Chip