Angela's Blog

Hey there.

First things first, thanks so much for all the replies. It really is a good motivator for me to keep doing the blog.

I did watch the movie on The Case for Faith. It was great! I recommend it to anyone who has the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" I think it does a great job of looking at that in light of the fact that there is a God, even a good God. Just kind of hits home for me how we don't know God's master plan and we really falter when we try to make God's plan match our plan.

And in light of that, I think it is really cool how people are reading this blog who have never even met me. Wow! Makes me feel like this is part of God's big plan for this accident. I'm effecting the lives of perfect strangers through this struggle and making a difference even for them. Points out to me how I probably couldn't even grasp it even if I did get a peek at God's big picture. Whew!

And hey, Ali, I had your friend, Janet, as my OT for two weeks when my regular OT was on vacation. Small world, huh!?!?

As for the Bioness - it's getting set up for me on this coming Tuesday. And I'm super excited about it! I think it'll really be helpful for me. Although I am a bit nervous because my OT mentioned something about me wearing it at work too. Might be sort of cumbersome to drag it to work and back on the bus.

And work is going great, by the way. I even got to help Jimmy inoculate tanks yesterday. And I successfully blew the PBS out of 10 tanks employing the work around my OT and I came up with. Success! I feel pretty darn good about running my experiments now. I feel completely capable! Maybe not as fast as I used to be, but I still think I can get it all done. And Monday marks the dawning of a new era at work. I'm getting my own cells for the first time since the accident! A little nervous but mostly just excited. We'll see how it goes.

And a really cool thing I got to do this week - I got to talk to the husband who is part of the couple who stopped and helped me the day of my accident. They were the ones who saw me in the street, pulled over, called 911, and then waited with me until the medics came. They even moved their car to block traffic to make sure I didn't get run over. It was really nice to get to say "thanks". Both Josh and I got to thank him. I'm so glad he picked up! Turns out they have since moved but he is supposed to visit in the next few months and said he'd call us when he's in town so we can take him out to dinner. Yeah!

And Josh and I got a little taste of normalcy last night. I took Josh out for a date night. It was so nice! We went to El Quetzal - a top notch Mexican restaurant on Beacon Hill. And I made it a surprise and wouldn't tell Josh where we were going before hand. And then we ate so much we had to come home and take naps. :) That's how we do it, Sweet style.

That's about what I've got for now.

We're headed to a friend's house for a party today. And I think I'm going to take my "hardware" with me. My "hardware" is what they took out of my arm. This friend of ours offered to have one of his friends weld it together and make something out of it. And our friend came up with a pretty cool sketch up of how to make it into a cross. I think I'm going to take him up on that offer. I'll post a picture of it when I get it back.

Okay. Talk at ya later.

Ang