Last week about this time I was just finishing the prelude at first service at the Collegedale church. I decided while sitting in the bowels of the organ during 2 sermons that church musicians are underappreciated. Out of 19 things on the program, the organ played 10. That's a lot to prepare for if you were doing it every week, all the little calls and responses... Unless you play very simple things all the time, preparation on some songs can take months. And most often SDA musicians never get paid for what they do. Tragic really. I've decided I'm going to thank the church musicians I see more often.
Ryan and I left on Tuesday to head for his house in Charlotte. Wednesday he had surgery on his knee. Its just not quite the same seeing somebody you love on that gourney in a hospital gown with oxygen up their nose as it is my everyday patients. (This is a before picture by the way, but after some wonderful Versed.) Hopefully this will fix his knee pain so he can get back to sports full tilt in... oh... November. I left that evening and am now back at home in Raleigh where I went and watched some physical therapy at my mom's work on some spinal cord injury and stroke patients. Its amazing to see how a person's focus can be riveted on one thing so seemingly simple as moving a foot. I've also had a few shopping sprees at the amazing sales at Kohls (and two grocery stores). We'll see what else this week of vacation at home has in store...
Last week about this time I was just finishing the prelude at first service at the Collegedale church. I decided while sitting in the bowels of the organ during 2 sermons that church musicians are underappreciated. Out of 19 things on the program, the organ played 10. That's a lot to prepare for if you were doing it every week, all the little calls and responses... Unless you play very simple things all the time, preparation on some songs can take months. And most often SDA musicians never get paid for what they do. Tragic really. I've decided I'm going to thank the church musicians I see more often.
Ryan and I left on Tuesday to head for his house in Charlotte. Wednesday he had surgery on his knee. Its just not quite the same seeing somebody you love on that gourney in a hospital gown with oxygen up their nose as it is my everyday patients. (This is a before picture by the way, but after some wonderful Versed.) Hopefully this will fix his knee pain so he can get back to sports full tilt in... oh... November. I left that evening and am now back at home in Raleigh where I went and watched some physical therapy at my mom's work on some spinal cord injury and stroke patients. Its amazing to see how a person's focus can be riveted on one thing so seemingly simple as moving a foot. I've also had a few shopping sprees at the amazing sales at Kohls (and two grocery stores). We'll see what else this week of vacation at home has in store...
2 comments:
isn't ryan a bit young to be having surgery already poor guy? a little bird told me someone was FAKE AND BAKING!!!!! :) love ya,
tara
you scared me with the picture of Ryan until i read what you wrote. later
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