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One of the blogs I read daily (when I'm reading all my favorites daily) is "The Road Not Chosen". Written by a mom of a young gentleman (Evan) with Down Syndrome, we've read about the physical problems that Evan has been having.

Thursday, Evan was scheduled for surgery, which was canceled. Why?

Evan's surgery was cancelled today. Gasp. Shock. Why? Because, well, God healed him & he didn't need surgery! He was preped & taken back to surgery. They put him under, cut off his cast, inspected his skin for abraisons (there were none). The next step was to look at his hip through the fluroscope (a real time x-ray machine). To the surgeons (both of them) shock, his femur was tilted at exactly the right angle, positioned perfectly. They moved his leg around, thinking it would pop out of socket, but it was firmly, perfectly in place, holding strong. Dr. S. called us in the waiting room, Harold talked to him & started to cry. Then Harold laughed. Hanging up, Harold told us (myself, our friends Roger & Dave) the good news. To say we were stunned would be the understatement of the century. I just laughed like a crazy woman. This was so wonderful as to be unimaginable! We all began laughing, crying & praising God.

Something like this happened to me when I was in second grade. I had had surgery twice already for tumors on my jaw - one of them had grown on my upper gum, so quickly that it covered my front teeth.

The third time the tumor was on the roof of my mouth, the night before my surgery, my parents took me to church on Wednesday evening where the deacons prayed over me. I went into surgery the next morning and right before they put me to sleep, the doctor (I remember him, Dr. Gibson) looked into my mouth and looked again. Then they took me back to my mom and dad. The tumor was simply not there.

Miracles and healing do happen. No donations to ministries, no props. Prayers.

I join Evan's family in praise to the glory of God.

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I didn't go to proms when I was in high school - long and short story that doesn't matter any more.

Anyway, every year our school has a real prom, complete with tuxedos and prom dressed for our students - all mentally impaired, but pretty high functioning - enough so that they all know what prom is.

Everybody is all excited, even staff - who also dress up!

Tomorrow night is my first prom. I'm chaperoning and checking students out when they're picked up. But I'm going and I'm going to have fun. I've already got a dance on my dance card!

And on Saturday - my first official 5k. It's a walk - I'm not up for even a slow jog for 5K. It's the 30th running of the Riverbank Run through my town. With over 12,000 participants, I'm not driving downtown. I'm taking the city bus. I've got my ChampionChip and everything.

On a more personal note: the week after, on the 19th, I'm walking with a student in my classroom for a fundraiser for the Noorthoek Academy - it's a college experience for special needs students. They do drama, poetry, history, field trips - the whole shot. At my graduation, a Noorthoek student got his honorary AA - after 18 years of attendance. Fred has Down Syndrome. He and his wife both attend the academy and he was so proud to get his "degree".

My student and I are both walking in "The Big Step Walk", a 5K to benefit the Academy and I'm taking pledges (my goal for the summer is to walk in 10 5K walks - hopefully and eventually doing an official run in November.

If anybody is interested in donating, write me privately - it's a great cause and these are great people!

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Thirteen Things about LOOKING FORWARD TO SUMMER

    1. I have a taste of it now - green.
    2. Walking barefoot outdoors.
    3. reading in the sun
    4. camping
    5. flowers - my black-eye-susans are coming up
    6. the irises that came from my Grandma's garden bloom.
    7. time - I have time!
    8. The beach
    9. Family time
    10. relaxing with music in the back yard
    11. more green - and flower colors
    12. No homework!
    13. No snow!
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    NEW YORK (AP) - A lawyer for Don Imus said Friday that the former radio host's bosses could have edited the on-air comments that got him fired—and the fact that they didn't meant they saw his remarks as routine for his often provocative show.CBS Radio and MSNBC had delay buttons, but didn't use them when Imus made racist and sexist comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team, lawyer Martin Garbus said on ABC's "Good Morning America."

    "That means CBS and MSNBC both knew the language that was going out, and both knew the language complied with (Imus') contract. ... It was consistent with many of the things he had done," Garbus said.

    Mr. Imus, you cannot (on one hand) "take responsibility" for your words and (on the other hand) blame the networks for not stopping you.


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    There's a park in our city that is more like a 2-track over the river and through the woods.

    Or sometimes through the river...

    Anyway, Saturday I did the walk (according to my pedometer it's a shade over 3 miles - 5K) in 56 minutes (of walking time, along with some time out to take photos of a couple of critters). Today I did it in 52.

    (click to see the critter)

    Next week Saturday I'm registered for my very first 5K walk - there's a 45 minute time limit - but it's on level city sidewalks.  And most likely no critters.

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    Thirteen Things about COUCH TO 5K

      1. it's easy to understand
      3. there are free downloads (MP3's) to help you time your walking and running
      4. it's doing something healthy for your body
      5. it starts out slow
      6. it's hard enough so that it gives you a real feeling of accomplishment
      7. it doesn't go too fast
      8. I can do it! (week one, first day)
      9. I can do it again (Wednesday was my second day
      10. there were bad parts
      11. I feel like I'm out of place to be attempting to run (overweight)
      12. I've had some significant pain in my lower legs - hopefully just muscles doing their thing
      13.  I'm doing so well that I'm going to need more running clothes!  (ok, that could be a good thing...

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      There are a few entries today for the Carnival of Beauty; "the Beauty of Flowers"

      Blair at Scribblings gives us a photo Blair snapped, from under the blossom tree in her front yard, led her to Scribblings of a poetic nature in "from under the blossom tree".

      Veracity, at Veracity - The Way, gives a feast of flowers to enjoy in a wonderful photo post, "Fragrance".
      Barbera at Bestsister,  writes about being belonging, even when broken in "Connected"
      Leslie of Lux Venit brings us "The Beauty of Flowers, in which she shares the beauty of knowing that even though the ground seems lifeless, God is working where we cannot see.  She also shares the poem, Rhodora, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
      As she has followed an unknown path, Amanda has captured several snapshots that capture the splendor of flowers; she shares them with us in her carnival entry this week.
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      I consider our love/hate relationship with the lowly but cheerful dandelion - and apply what I see to people around me in It’s a flower…no, it’s an herb…no, it’s a WEED!