Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2009. Mattie was in the process of getting a bone scan. In order to prepare for such a scan, he could not eat or drink anything for 12 hours. Needless to say when you can't eat something, that is typically when you WANT to! As the scan was finishing Mattie eagerly started eating a vanilla frosted Dunkin Donut, his favorite at the time! The joke back then was "one donut a day and everything will be okay!" As you can see Mattie was literally eating while still on the scanning table! However, I will never forget this day because the radiologist who was reading his bone scan was having issues with what he was seeing. To him Mattie's cancer looked like it was progressing, but in reality what he was seeing was Mattie's prosthetics. Nonetheless, until I got face to face with this doctor and asked him what the problem was, Mattie was literally being held up in this scanning machine for more testing unnecessarily. Mattie was starving and really couldn't sit still for one more minute! Linda, Mattie's child life specialist, knew I was getting anxious and found a way for me to speak with the radiologist. Thankfully! We put an end to the ordeal and Mattie got his donut!


Quote of the day: I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you. ~ Janette Rallison

The weather in Washington, DC went from spring like warm yesterday to cooler today. The irony is they are predicting snow for later in the week. When temperatures change suddenly, some how that triggers one of my least favorite residents to surface.... our falcon! He is one large and ominous  looking creature. I snapped this photo from the window in Mattie's bedroom!

As the day passed along, this falcon came back and forth to visit. At one point, he perched himself on top of my garden hooks where we hang the bird feeders. He was hoping to pluck a sparrow for a snack. The beauty though is by moving the feeders closer to the shrubs this year, these birds of prey have a much harder time capturing the sparrows. The sparrows hide within the shrubs and I have no idea, but for some reason it makes it harder for them to be captured. When the feeders were out and exposed on our deck, hawks would swoop down often and kill the sparrows. But this isn't happening in the new location! 

While this was happening in my world, my good friend Mary Ann sent me photos from near her home today. She sent me several, but I was partial to the snowman
bird feeder! I can only imagine how my sparrows would react to this type of feeder.

When Mary Ann showed me this photo, it made me chuckle. Some child got out the side walk chalk and wrote, "spring is here." If it were ONLY true! I won't believe it until I officially see some consistent temperatures!