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HERES A WISH FOR A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

my hope for you is that all of you will have a very very merrychristmas filed with lots of happiness and a whole lotta love for all of your familirs lots opf gift under the tree as well as lots of laughter :bell: and lots of goals achieved for you on Christmas day :reigndeer: and may this year ve even better for you :fireplace: all filled with lots of family :wreath: fun and a verty prosperous new year :downchimney: may all of your dreams come true :ChristmasTree: have a wonderful holidays and a

lharrison

lharrison

let it snow let it snow

just in time for Christmas well it has become a winter wonderland in Canada yes just in time for Christmas it seemed that it will be a white Christmas it didn't snow lots but it did snow and I love having a white Christmas I am hoping that all will have a very very merry Christmas and a very prosperous new year all the best to you may you have good health and happiness and lots of recovery for the new year

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lharrison

PUT ON YOUR RED SOX,CAUSE WE ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIESl

AH BOY THE RED SOX MADE MY DAY BY WINNING A TRIP TO THE WORLD SERIES AND THEY DID IT BY BEATING DETROIT TIGERS EVEN WITH TIGERS GETTING HOME TEAM ADVANTAGEAND NOW THEY WILL BE TAKING ON THE ST LOUS CARDINALS ON WEDNDESDAY AT 4:30 AT FENWAY PARK I KNOW I WILL BE WATCHING AND I AMSURE I KNOW WHERE JULIE1 WILL BE AS WELL SHOULD BE A VERY GOOD GAME WITH LOTS OF HOME RUNS AS WELL I REMEMBER WHEN SHANE VICTORINO HIT A GRAND SLAM TO WIN THE GAME AND A TRIP TO THE WORLD SERIES MY WIFE HAD TO PEEL ME OFF

lharrison

lharrison

must be the sign of getting old

well I went to see the optometris and I was told that on January I have to go to the hospital as I may need surgery for my left eye I may have cateract and if so I have to get it remove not sure just what is involved in the surgery but I do knowthat you only seem to need catersct surgery when you are getting old and I really don't think that I am that old so hopefully on januarty when I go for a check up I will be told you are oky got my fingers crossed

lharrison

lharrison

STROKE NET,what this site has giving me

I am so glad that I found this site, this site has gigave me so munch hope at recovery since my stroke. Here lots of members who has gone through what I am going through. It is filled with lots of hopes and lots of good advice that is because so munch members is dealing with the tough task of dealing with recovery so therefore it has a very very tight community and most important you don"t have to worry anout sharing some of your thoughts. I am so glad that I was able to find this site because

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lharrison

well now that i have my appointmentnow what do i do?

well I was just informed :secret: by my caregiver/wife that I have an appointment for my colonoscopy :yikes: and yes I have had it before :Nodding: but!!! no pun intended :giggle: I do hate the prep :Gulp: well anyway I go for a colonoscopy on Monday :roadrage: I go to insure that all is okay :stretcher: and once I get it done oh boy solid food :Starvin: any way wish me luck

lharrison

lharrison

take me out to the ballgameand buy me a garlic french fries at safeco field

oh boy!!! not long now :Ask: as you know by now my favorite team is the boston red sox :Nodding: and so on july,8th on mondaymy wife and I are driving to Safeco park in seattle mariners play the boston red sox :Clap-Hands: and boy boston had better win while I am sitting in Safeco park in seattle :Nodding: and I have heard through some other fans who have been to Safeco field that they make the very best garlic French fries :mail: its a tough job but I will give it the old tase test and let you

lharrison

lharrison

CANADA DAYEYE!!

oh boy just to let you know that it is Canada dayjuly 1s :blowup: t and lots of things are happening on Canada day :cheer: we have lots of fireworks just about every where and then if you are hungary and looking for something yo eat we have the steveston salmon festival all the sockeye you can eat salmon feast and lots of ride yes its a carnival going on with lots of rides and then we have a dunking machine you sit in the chair and if you are a good pitcher hit the bullseye you can dunck your fa

lharrison

lharrison

i thought that you should know that its a mythwhat you are told by your doctor

I GUESS THAT YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A MYTH THAT IS GOING AROUND :roadrage: TWO IN FACT :Ask: I am sure that you already know this :Nodding: but I will tell you anyway :secret: myth number one if you don"t get recovery within 8 mounths you will never get it :I-Thank-You: this is not true in fact I have been in recovery for 11 years and I am still getting better :Nodding: so in factit never really stopsgetting better :Clap-Hands: myth number two oh wow sorry to hear of your stroke I think that you

lharrison

lharrison

please pray for the families living in oklahoma

I am sure that you have hear the very bad news about the tornado families survivers in moores Oklahoma. I would like to ask you to please pray for the survivers that has had to go through not only once but twice in fact and the lost of the children in thhe school. I cannot even imagine what it must be like to lose your house and your families it is very sad to think of all the devestation that they the residents in moor Oklahoma will have to deal with.   And as munch as I would love to help th

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lharrison

new goalsnew exercisefor the limited mobilitymay,2nd

I just learned a new exercise that works for me :Nodding: if you own a cane :gym: that's great :Nodding: because all you need is a cane and a bed to lye in it :Nodding: first of all you lay down in bedwith your kneesbent and then you take the cane holding it in your hand :gym: and you simply lift up and hold then while holding the cane in your arm move to the left as far as you can you will then get a very good streatch after holding it a while then using your armes whilr holding the cane move t

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lharrison

what a sad times we live ina great run like the boston marathon was tarnish

WELL AS YOU KNOW BY NOW THE BOSTON MARATHON WAS BOMBED :blowup: and a lot of innocence was killed :Sob: this is a very sad state that we live in when you can"t be safewhen you go out to enjoy your day I feel so sorry for the death of the children in the run and for the injured I wish that there was someway that we could let the people know whoeverdid this that you are a coward and no ax to grind is worth what you did that is not the way to make friends, the boston marathon has long been a tradit

lharrison

lharrison

lets get ready for easter!!!

oh wow!!!! its almost easter can you believe it :yikes: time to hide the chocolate eggs from the kiddies :Nodding: time to have ham for dinner :Nodding: i know christian is sure looking forward to easterand i know im looking forward to see christian eyes light up when he finds the chocalate eggs and lots of dinner round the table for the family so whatever it is that you do on easter, i hope that your easter is a fun filled party for you so have a happy easter and celibrate easter by going for a

lharrison

lharrison

something newto share with you!!! work spells progress

just wanted to let you know that i now learned to do something new that i wanted to share with you :Ask: i can now using my right arm and picking my left arm up to my head and cupping my palms and putting my head into the palms of my head it took me quite a while to do this a whole lotrta grab and streatch :gym: but at least i can do it and now after lifting my left arm with my right hand i can now do it by myself just with my left hand now and now my fingers is getting easy to move my fingers i

lharrison

lharrison

oh boyits family day and its the first family day in febuary lets celibrate the day

HI THERE WELL I AM sure that all of you know about family day and to bring in the first febuary family day we are celibrating with my wife family and with our family on monday we have ordered my mother in law her favorite food susie and tempura and because my mother in law is in the seniors home we areall my wife me my son and my daughter and my grandson all going over to where she is and have a wonderful dinner together as a family and she has no idea that we are coming so i hope that all of yo

lharrison

lharrison

oh boy had a great happy year party

oh my did my wife and i ever have fun on new years eve :happydance: first we went to the country meadows golf coarse and the theme was abbycadabra :music_band: it was a nabby musc bad, with lots of soundtracks of all there songs then dinner wasserve it was prime rib and potatoes and ceasear salad loys of drinks champain for the toast and this year we actully stayd up untill the new year eve party wasn\t even tired couldn\t dance thougt the dance floor was yto full so i just sit and watch tie ban

lharrison

lharrison

looks like a white christmas after all

oh wow did christian my grandson and my wife ever have a very good time and it justt keepon getting better we got up early and we drove up to vancouver and into stanley park wher the vancouveraqurium is located wher we took christian to see all the sea life and then we went to see the polar bear express in 3d, and wow was that ever great and i walk all the way around the aqurium wow was i ever pump from that we then watce the boluga whale do some tricks jumping up out of the water and just then

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lharrison

what really irritates me when shopping

i have interact which when using you must type in your type of plan whiwith your bank and then your pin number thats oky with me but if you go to eat out then the adding feature is if you want to tip yes or no the programs on the store machine has made shopping or eating out very difficult to use or to understand at least for me lucily i took my daughter out for lunch so i just had stephanie help me out do you find that the machine has gotten more difficult to use?and then i have found that ever

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lharrison

what a great cobconcert

well as promice here is a blog about the concert that we went on sunday, the door open at6:30 and the concert starting at 8:30 we had really great aeata it was held at b,c,place stadiun in vancouver, sir paul mccartney is absolutly amazing nan and preformer he is now 72yearsold but he looks and sounds munch younger and even though we wait about 40 minutes after he did come up on stagw he preform non stop for 2 hoyrand 56minutes and the reviw that he got from our local paper the vancouver sun it

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lharrison

THIS IOS THE DAY TO PUT ON MY DANCING SHOES,ON SUNDAY

OH BOY THIS IS THE DAY ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER,23RDMY WIFE AND I ARE OFF TO SEE SIR PAUL MCARTNEYTO HEAR PAULS NEW BAND :music_band: AND to show just how munch i love to see him i am not taking my scooter :scooter: i am walking to the concert :kicking: it"s not far at all where i live :chase: but it will be a full house :chat: i will try to bring in a digital camera, in hopes to get a great shot, i will dtry to get a great shot of the show :Nodding: well i will be blogging you soon to let you know ho

lharrison

lharrison

oh boy not going to just any concert!!

oh boy going to a concert and i am so looking forward to it well as i was sleeping my wife woke me up and said well lenny i have some good news and i have some bad news so i ask for the bad news first and my wife then said the bad news is i couldn"t get tickets for the paulk mccarrtney but i did get tickets to go and see it i said thats oky i will walk just tro see him when we went to tacoma washington in the states we got handi capp seats which just means you are closer but any way the date is

lharrison

lharrison

whateverthe future hold for you?enjoy it

as i was sitting in my scooter thinking about life big subject but i was also wondering what the future hols for me?and just then i realize that no one really knows not your doctor not your friends will i get better?can"t say yes but can"t say no will i recovery?only timr will tell but the one thingthat is gfor sure you can control your future by how you feel about yoiur life if you remain positive and have a good attitude about life and a very positive outlook on your future then you can"t help

lharrison

lharrison

hey it"s my 32years anniversary of marriage

well just to let you know that on september, 20th i married my lovely wife and after 32years we are still together and loving every minute of it and yearshowever since we just renovating our kitchen and floors that will have to be the anniversary gift as we have to wait and save but my wife is going to cook using her new kitchen oh boy we can save money that wat but then i remember that it is my wife anniversary as well so now i am thinking maybe a compromise i do the cooking for the wholefa,ily

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lharrison

wow!! finally the renovations ofour kitchen is compleated and pictures will soon be followed

Well the kitchen is finally over and compleated, it took a long time 3and1half months and we did the floors the kitchen and the cubbords it looks like a brand new house on the inside and as promise the picture will be coming onto the gallery after i return from holidays. I will then send the after pics of our new kitchen to maria to post for me. I posted the after kitchen in the gallery so now you will be able to see the before and the afterlook of our new kitchen.   Ii and my wife is so ple

lharrison

lharrison

went to a birthday partyit was a 65years birthday party fun fun

OH WOW JUST WENT TO A SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY. IT WAS A 65YEAR OLD SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY AND BOY WAS IT EVER FUN AND YES HE WAS SURPRISED. THE WIFE PAM MANAGE TO PULL IT OFF WE HAD LOTS OF FOOD AND LOTS OF DRINKS AND LOTS OF CONVERSATION AND LOTS OF LAUGH WITH THE SURPRISE. THE HUSBAND PHONED HOME TO SAY HE WAS ON HIS WAY SO WE ALL GOT BY THE DOOR AND ONE GUY WHO WAS THERE STOOD IN FRONT OF THE DOOR.   BUTthe birthday boy didn"t know who he was so when the birthday boy came home he block t

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lharrison