Hi Phil,

I'm praying for you and Sandy.

I pray that you are totally healed and that you 
are able to do everything you once did.


Thanks much.

Many Blessings,

Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13.

At 09:29 PM 6/12/2015, you wrote:
>First, and before I forget, those writing me at 
>my old comcast address may not always hear from 
>me.  My windows computer only half works half 
>the time and not all mail gets forward over to 
>my Mac computer.  This iCloud.com address comes 
>to both my iPhone and my mac computer which synchronize on their own.
>
>Now, for the rest of the story, although that 
>might take more than one message to complete.
>
>As I said, I was sick as a dog for a couple of 
>days but the recovery took a lot longer, 
>probably due to my advanced age, he he, and I 
>likely got it from my grandkids.  Anyhow, 
>although I’m still not where I want to be 
>physically, that likely isn’t going to change any time soon.
>
>This week I was struggling with my hearing 
>aids.  We had gotten our annual hearing tested 
>recently, I believe I’ve already talked about 
>that, but my aids starting diminishing
>  and I finally wasn’t getting much value out 
> of them.  I went in today, my younger sister 
> taking me in, and our doctor of audiology took 
> them apart, cleaned them, and then we and I 
> spent about 10 minutes fine tuning the volume 
> levels.  Our last visit to him, a few weeks 
> ago, was when he not only tested our hearing 
> again, but he flashed a hardware upgrade into 
> our hearing aids.  This new software allows for 
> additional features that I can talk about 
> later.  Today, I got the volume levels tweaked 
> and boy am I feeling a lot better 
> emotionally.  I was getting to the point I 
> wasn’t putting my hearing aids in for a 
> couple of days because it was more 
> frustrating.  Anyhow, thank the Lord for 
> that.  I’m especially thankful I’m not so 
> weak any more but I have a ways to go yet.
>
>I’ll comment in a followup message on how I am getting along with the Mac.
>
>During the days I was ill, I was 
>struggling   with emotional issues.  The list 
>was pretty long but things like getting older, 
>not able to do some of the simplest things I 
>once did, such has work with my hands, repairing 
>fencing, driving screws, even pulling out  20 
>pounds of garbage from the trash compacter and 
>carrying the bag out to the trash barrels along 
>side of our garage, were things fighting for 
>solutions.  Of course, there are no solutions to 
>such problems, that is, making everything new, 
>or younger, to put it bluntly.  I kept telling 
>myself to do just those things I could do and 
>let the rest go but I didn’t want to grow 
>older and I didn’t want to live without doing 
>the most basic of things I once did for myself 
>and my family.  Having a job and making a living 
>is something I started living without 6 years 
>ago, almost seven now, and that hasn’t gone 
>away even though I work at adjusting to it, 
>aging, I mean.  Not working, due to my physical 
>condition, or lack thereof, to be more 
>specific.,   is as awkward adjusting to on a 
>perpetual bases as going blind.  Boy, am I glad 
>I lost my sight at age twelve and not in my 
>later years of retirement.  Anyway, I could list 
>a dozen things which have been pestering me 
>emotionally over the last few months, or even 
>longer, but getting ill the other night helped 
>me focus on what was wrong; not because I wanted 
>to either, but because the Lord wasn’t getting 
>my attention due to all the mental and emotional 
>complaining and belly aching I have been doing.
>
>I’m going to continue this in a followup 
>message lest I get carried away and try and cram 
>everything that comes to mind in a single message, smile.
>
>Phil.