There was about a fifteen minute lapse in time that
Jackqueline could now see the clock on the far left corner hospital room
wall. Then the officer who had escorted
her to the hospital came into the room with another doctor, Jackqueline had not
yet met and two nurses and Janet. They
had to get her prepped for x-rays, even though there was apparently no other
part of Jackqueline’s body they to physically examine. The doctor said, “We want
you to have some x-rays, but we have to get that one earring in your left ear
out. Can you take it out?”
Completion of Humanness As we arrive to the completion of the first year without Norman, I had decided long before he'd passed that I would continue to do things certain things he liked yet could no longer do. I decided I would not take a day off of fitness. I would run at least for 500 days in a row. I began that in early 2020. I'd not be concerned with the distance I'd run. It was the very thing I convinced Norman and the thing that mattered to him, from the very first discussion we had August 11th, 1981, was fitness. I loved that he was a College Boy. He loved that I was a Marine. We tickled each other's soul with such admirations. Later fitness continued as an old discussion from 1994 ...getting outside and to run no matter what. I would say to him, "Run 200 meters, then 400 meters. If it doesn't feel good, stop. Turn around and walk back home and know you did your best. That is all you can ask of yourself." I said this, knowing he would get dow
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