We had a nice Fathers Day and Pat was happy to hear from our children. We are so thankful for our family that are so supportive of us being away from home and serving a mission. We love hearing from and seeing them often via FaceTime. We are grateful for modern technology that allows us to stay close and watch our families grow up while we are away.
Yes folks, we have definitely had some challenges this past week. So for Father's Day dinner I made Pat, Chicken Marsala which is one of his favorites. Well we must have gotten some bad mushrooms because by 1:00 AM he was in the throngs of the worst food poisoning episode I have ever seen. This poor thing was the sickest that I have ever seen in our 46 years together.
Morning eventually came and I was able to get to Walgreens early and get him some Immodium and Emitrol which finally slowed things down a bit. I also called our sweet zone leaders and they came over Monday morning and gave Pat a blessing that helped too. Pat was finally able to get a couple hours of sleep.
I had not eaten the mushrooms so we thought that's why I did not get the poisoning, but Oh contrere, I had eaten the sauce that the mushroom were in and by afternoon I was affected too. But certainly not as bad as Pat and we had the Immodium so my episode was not as bad. By nighttime we were both feeling better but Pat was very week.
The next day Tuesday we had our Literacy tutor assignment and although we would like to have stayed home another day we went on to the Library to meet our learners. My fellow did not show up but Pat's did and they had a nice lesson together.
The light bulb over the kitchen sink had been out a few days, but we didn't care much about changing it the day before so upon arriving home from the Library I asked Pat to change it. He had taken off his shoes. He pulled up a chair to climb up to change it, yes, you can see it coming, and as he stepped up on the smooth wooden chair with his stocking feet, they slid right out from under him and he fell backwards and landed flat on his back with his head hitting the tile floor really hard. The impact on his head split it open a bit and he was bleeding as well as had a bad concussion. We have watched him carefully and have talked to health care people. He didn't break anything but has to take it easy and let his brain settle down. His recovery is slow but is steady. He stayed pretty calm the rest of that week. The moral to this story, don't let old folks change light bulbs in stocking feet. When I told our kids about the mishap they have been very thoughtful about checking in on their dad. Then cute Brian said," mom, how many Senior Missionaries does it take to change a light bulb"? So funny.
On Thursday we had our Institute/Pathway lessons. Pat worked to prepare his lesson but just wasn't up to going out. So that night at our class I taught my Institute lesson and I divided Pat's lesson into 3 parts. I assigned a third of the class to each part and ask them to study it for 10 minutes then present it to the rest of us. These students we have are wonderful and they did a terrific job. They are knowledgeable and willing to share and work together. Their love and concern for Elder Traynor was evident. We appreciate their support .
It's a good thing this week is finished. Things are getting back to normal, slowly, but its happening.
We feel the blessings of our Heavenly Father.
Almost Heaven, Traynors
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