Two gals whose blogs I frequent were Christy Award winners this past week. These awards are given out at the International Christian Retail Show for books published by Christian publishers.
Deanne Gist won the award for Best Romance of 2005 for her novel A Bride Most Begrudging which I read last summer and thoroughly enjoyed. The story is laugh-out-loud funny in places, so I'm not surprised to hear that I wasn't the only one who loved it! Deanne blogs here.
The winner of the Award for Excellence in Christian fiction in the Visionary category was Karen Hancock for her 2005 novel Shadow Over Kiriath, the third book in her series Legends of the Guardian-King. Karen blogs at Writing from the Edge.
Of course, other people won awards as well, but these are two authors whose careers I have been following, so they're the ones who get an honorable mention here!
In other news, our friend Rick (who was sent to the Regional Hospital for rehab on June 2 after he was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre) is coming home today! The rehab has been a long haul...and the complete recovery will be much longer...but at long last he is coming home. He is now able to hobble about with a cane. The family has been able to borrow much of the equipment they need from the local Red Cross. Sunday is Rick and his wife's 18th wedding anniversary so it is particularily cool that he will be home for that. I have offered to take the three kids off their hands for the afternoon and to supply an anniversary supper at their house. (It's going to be awhile yet before he can navigate vehicles and restaurants with ease.)
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Showing posts with label Rick. Show all posts
Friday, July 14, 2006
Friday, June 16, 2006
Random updates
On June 2 I talked about our friend Rick acquiring Guillain-Barre syndrome. He's been in the regional hospital for two weeks now, and his family is on their way to see him for the first time this weekend. He's out of ICU and into Rehab, which is certainly good news. He's discouraged about the slow progress and that he will likely be there for several more weeks at best. He would like to be the exception to the rule and bounce back faster than average, but so far it is just plain WORK on nerves and muscles that don't want to cooperate.
I also mentioned my struggle with weight loss. I've lost another couple pounds and have continued to get some exercise every single day. I've been blessed by the number of people (here, in my Curves gym, at my church, and forums) I've been encourage in their own path. Although my birthday was in May, I just got my gift from hubby a few days ago: a new bike with decent suspension and raised handlebars that allow me to ride without kinking my neck. The bike makes a nice change for me some mornings instead of running, and it allows us to get out together on weekends--when he's home on a weekend, anyway. Drat that four on four off shift he works!
The humungous powerpoint project is done. I got smart and bought myself a flash drive. I've been meaning to do that for awhile and this seemed the perfect excuse. Very impressed with the speed of saving files on it! I took the flash up to the church yesterday and went through the presentation with my youth pastor on the big screen in the sanctuary, where it looks a lot different than on my monitor. He couldn't do much with the presentation there as it consists of over a hundred slides, most made individually in photoshop. So I had a few to re-do, and I emailed them in last night.
That covers some of the random bits I've blogged about that needed updating. If there's anything I've forgotten about, remind me...
I also mentioned my struggle with weight loss. I've lost another couple pounds and have continued to get some exercise every single day. I've been blessed by the number of people (here, in my Curves gym, at my church, and forums) I've been encourage in their own path. Although my birthday was in May, I just got my gift from hubby a few days ago: a new bike with decent suspension and raised handlebars that allow me to ride without kinking my neck. The bike makes a nice change for me some mornings instead of running, and it allows us to get out together on weekends--when he's home on a weekend, anyway. Drat that four on four off shift he works!
The humungous powerpoint project is done. I got smart and bought myself a flash drive. I've been meaning to do that for awhile and this seemed the perfect excuse. Very impressed with the speed of saving files on it! I took the flash up to the church yesterday and went through the presentation with my youth pastor on the big screen in the sanctuary, where it looks a lot different than on my monitor. He couldn't do much with the presentation there as it consists of over a hundred slides, most made individually in photoshop. So I had a few to re-do, and I emailed them in last night.
That covers some of the random bits I've blogged about that needed updating. If there's anything I've forgotten about, remind me...
Friday, June 02, 2006
Requesting prayer
Our very good friend Rick is currently in ICU at the regional hospital with Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
He had the flu last week and after awhile began losing muscular control and strength in his feet and then calves. Then higher. Then hands and arms. Because he was *only* a Level 2 emergency (not on the verge of death) he had to wait 12 hours for the medevac plane yesterday. Apparently the entire province of BC has two of them. Go figure.
The prognosis is good. He is being treated there because that's where they are set up to monitor the progression and to administer the drugs that should help re-kick-start his auto-immune system. Currently they expect about two weeks in the hospital there (a 6-7 hour drive from here), and then up to a year or so for full recovery.
I was interested to learn that this week is Guillain-Barre Awareness Week. I'm not sure what's up with that for timing.
His wife and three kids (age 15, 13, and 7) are finding this very tough. They've had a roller coaster year (more down than up) and this is a huge blow. They are believers. Please pray for them.
He had the flu last week and after awhile began losing muscular control and strength in his feet and then calves. Then higher. Then hands and arms. Because he was *only* a Level 2 emergency (not on the verge of death) he had to wait 12 hours for the medevac plane yesterday. Apparently the entire province of BC has two of them. Go figure.
The prognosis is good. He is being treated there because that's where they are set up to monitor the progression and to administer the drugs that should help re-kick-start his auto-immune system. Currently they expect about two weeks in the hospital there (a 6-7 hour drive from here), and then up to a year or so for full recovery.
I was interested to learn that this week is Guillain-Barre Awareness Week. I'm not sure what's up with that for timing.
His wife and three kids (age 15, 13, and 7) are finding this very tough. They've had a roller coaster year (more down than up) and this is a huge blow. They are believers. Please pray for them.
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