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It’s been almost 5 1/2 years since my beloved husband died suddenly of a heart attack.  Over the years since our painful parting I have taken what seemed like a bi-zillion baby steps moving through all the stages of grief and letting go.

Recently I bumped up against the biggest challenge of all, our beautiful house.

I recently woke up in the middle of the night and after some introspection realized it’s finally time to let go of the house and really move on for good.

Letting Go Of My Cozy Abode

It’s not so much that I didn’t want to let go of our cozy abode.  It’s just I didn’t want to invest the time in cleaning out the attic, the garage and the zillion of boxes of clippings, books and mementos.  Plus getting the house ready to show, sell and move out of.  UGH.  Too many little details. (more…)

As a baby I suffered from croup which at first appearance freaked my parents completely out.  Croup continued to haunt me every Spring and Fall for years.  Some years it thankfully passed me by.

(Image from Wikipedia showing lungs with the steeple sign as seen on an AP neck X-ray of a child with croup – All Rights Reserved)

When I was a senior in high school it returned with a vengeance although the medical doctors deemed it a viral lung infection rather than croup. It felt like croup, it sounded like croup and a cool vaporizer helped me breathe like it did when I had croup as a child.  But it was not called croup by the doctors.

Regardless, I had the barking cough and the symptoms worsening at night along with difficulty breathing.  As a result I came very close to missing my senior Prom because my doctor advised my parents to not let me go out into the night air until I was completely fever and cough free.  Luckily I managed to recover with only 2 days to spare.

From that point forward I never really got a head cold.  I always caught a chest cold which closely resembled croup although my doctors told me you can’t really get croup after you’re a baby or a child.  Is that really true?

Actually it’s not.  Croup is just one type of viral infection. (more…)