I'm Back
Back from my trip, Had a great time. Went to my sisiters in Va. She has a summer home on a lake so we boated and fished and laid basking in the sun. It was great until I got home. The airport lost my luggage and the day after I got home my face blew up like a balloon and my lips were like I got triple the amount of bowtox that Joan Rivers gets. Went to the ER, DR. said Too much fun in the sun. He thought it may be a reaction to my blood pressure meds, but after test and 6hrs of waiting in the hospital they determined it was a reaction to the sun. My lips got burnt and took all week to explode. One good thing it gives me an extra day off from work. He gave me meds and I am now starting to shrink. lol. And yeah my luggage is home too. I flew alone but met family there. That is now the second time I have flown alone since Bruces passing, I guess I'm getting used to it. As long as someone is at the other end to enjoy the vacation with me, i'm ok. Wont travel a whole trip alone. As you see I got a new computer. Walmart had a laptop on ad this week that cost as much as my old one would cost to fix,so I figured I'd just buy this one an fix my old one later, They said it will take a month to get the part and no way could I wait that long. I'll bring it somewhere else iater. Well I hope you all did well this past couple of weeks I will be passing by soon. Luv,yas Lori PS, I went tubing on the back of a boat for the first time since I was probabaly 10. I did it for Bruce. He was always the risk taker and I was always the nervous wreck. I know he was watching and he was proud. I am too.
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So good to have you back. It sounds like you had a really good time despite the sun burnt lips and the lost luggage. It gives me so much hope to hear that you have been able to do all this stuff. I know Bruce is proud of you looking down from above.
I am planning to come to the States for the first time next summer with a friend who was widowed 12 years ago. She has been to the US many times as she has friends there and she has done things like white water rafting in the Grand Canyon and treked through the Sahara.
One of the things that is strange since Richard died two months ago is that I have no fear any more. I was really a scaredy cat when he was alive, always concerned for his safety, but now that he is gone I really don\'t care about my own safety and would willingly die tomorrow if I could be with him again.
So who knows what I may end up doing. Certainly I do not intend to be a typical widow and to do some of the things we always planned to do in the hope that Richard will experience them with me. Our big plan was to travel round the Mediterranean in a classic camper van and I\'m not ready to give up on that yet.
I hope your week back at work goes well.
Love
Margaret
Sounds like you had a wonderful time away - to bad reality hit you so hard when you got back...Glad you enjoyed yourself & your extra day off work...Hugs, ann
sounds like you had a well deserved vacation and I\'m so glad you enjoyed it. I\'m looking forward to a small trip with my daughter to visit friends a couple of hours away. Sharon
Good to read you had such a good vacation, despite the reaction to the sun and your lost luggage. Glad to hear you\'re recovering well and you have been re-united with your luggage. You should be proud of flying alone. I know I have found it difficult going on vacation alone but, like you, I am getting more used to it. I suspect it is easier for a man - or am I being an old-fashioned sexist there? (LOL). In a strange way it is like you and \"adelheid\" say, somehow I am more reckless about doing things now and prepared to take more risks as it feel like these things don\'t really matter in comparison to what has already happened - what could be worse? It is a very different world we now live in but I hope you keep on enjoying your trips and the return to work isn\'t too bad. Take care.
Glad you had a good time, but boy you must have really had a bad reaction to the sun.. Be careful and take care of yourself, of course I had NO computer for a week, so by now you are probably ALL healed... My issue is and I really NEED to do something about it is that I don\'t want to do anything as I can not do it together with Jim.. It is a BAD way to think, and I have to work on it.... Ugh.,.. So happy to be back here and to hear from you.. Hugs,