@loriesco , @lilyann

I'm with @loriesco all the way about medical miracles!! I've known some personally and I too hope you will be one of them!! Life is short and we must remember to enjoy the small things that bring us pleasure - a bird landing on the windowsill, hopping around and looking in as though to say "hi." We have lots of birds here because we feed, water and house them and I am amazed at how much joy they bring. Recently two sets of babies were born in houses in a tree just outside our dining room. We've been able to watch them grow, watch them grow anxious to get out into the world and finally taking their first flight. Then hopping from limb to limb of our tree, practicing short flights until they finally get the nerve to fly across the yard. It's a sight to see, if you're a bird lover. That's just one small example of the many, many things in life we have to be thankful for and that we have to enjoy. I hope you have nature around you because for me, it's nature that brings so much joy, happiness and peace to my otherwise pretty tumultuous life. In the past year my husband went from a healthy and strong man who I've been married to for 43 years. Just over a year ago he developed something called PMR, then in Feb he developed Giant Cell Arteritis which was devastating and scary. But we were plugging along, trying to get him through that without losing his sight or having a stroke. He had to take high doses of prednisone for both illnesses which is how he developed steroid-induced osteoporosis. The osteoporosis has proven to be the most difficult of all to deal with. He starts on Forteo on Monday. In the meantime, just when we thought we were making some headway (his labs are coming back really good lately and his most recent x-ray showed no new fractures - he has 3 - and that his fractures are stabilizing.) Which was all great news! Then on Friday he went in for a bladder ultrasound before his first urology appointment on the 31st of this month (they found narrowing in an unrelated CT scan), an appointment I didn't go to because we thought it was so simple. When he got home he walked in limping and looking like the end of the world had struck. Evidently, after urinating there was still too much urine in his bladder so to avoid possible damage to his kidneys, they told him he could not leave without a catheter. So now we are dealing with this new issue and neither of us knew the first thing about catheters. However, after two full days dealing with this thing, watching more YouTube videos than I'd care to admit, I finally now feel I'm a pro at this. But, it was quite rude of them to send him home like that without even teaching him the first thing about catheter use. Anyway, we will get through this as it's a temporary fix. I'm praying!

I'm not sure how I got off on that topic but when I started out wishing you the best and wishing for a miracle! I'm going to tag @windyshores to bring her up to date on my husband.