Squatch’s Personal Update 22/12/2015

Well I had a full eye exam today, an annual event since I am diabetic.  The good news . . . my baby blues are in excellent shape!  The bad news . . . my eyes are tired and the light is bothering them, likely just a result of all the drops.  Tomorrow will be fine.  We had what I call thick rain today . . . snow mixed with rain and cold.

Puzzle — Today’s took me 2:43 (average 5:11). To do it, click here. How did you do?

GoodNewsNetwork — If you ever wonder whether you can make a difference in someone’s life, look at this 1988 picture from Children’s Nurse magazine.

The nurse on the left is Lynn Bartos, who spent years helping treat the little girl, Nichole Frye, who had been born with a serious birth defect.

The little girl called the nurse “Sweet Lynnie” and the nurse called little Nichole, “Ninni.”

After almost 25 years, the two met again by chance, and Lynn learned just how much she did make a difference in her patients’ lives, when the roles were reversed.

This time, she was the patient–in a hospital being treated for rheumatoid arthritis, when a young nurse came in to adjust her medicine.

Lynn felt something familiar about her and read the name on her name tag.

“Ninni?” she asked.

Sure enough, little Nichole, now 30, had followed in the footsteps of “Sweet Lynnie,” the nurse who inspired her as a little girl and nursed her through years of surgery and treatment.

Too often, we never get to know how we influence others.  In my 20s, 30s and 40s, I was a Sunday School teacher and a youth group leader for junior and senior highs.  The kids were somewhat rebellious with their parents, but things were different with me.  There was always 2 way respect.  But then my work sent me far north and those days of youth work were done.  About 10 years later I got a call asking me to a wedding.  One of my "babies" was getting married.  Then, about 2 years after that, I received a call from this young man.  I thought he would tell me that they were pregnant.  He said his older brother was getting married and would I come?  Of course I would be there.  And then he said that they were pregnant.  This little girl was named after her 2 grandmothers and me.  Too rarely do we know how we influence others and it is a great privilege when such is revealed.

My Universe —