Thank You!

You Guys! I was so touched....Please accept this web post as a temporary thank you until you receive the real hand-written note via the snail mail at your May meeting.

The cut spring flowers are absolutely beautiful as you can see them sitting on my kitchen table in the photo below. It is a shame you can't smell them as the daffodils and iris smell heavenly. The short green glass vase is awesome- a nice thick glass and I look forward to trying to arrange some of my own humble garden flowers in it this summer.  The flowers arrived on the absolute perfect day as I was feeling kind of low. 

For those of you who don't know, on December 21, I found out for the first time, AT AGE 57 no less, that I have a birth defect--- a hole, quite a large hole actually, just over 1" inch in diameter between the two upper chambers of my heart. The left side of my heart has already enlarged and eventually I would have heart failure. I knew I had been feeling more tired the past year or so but I thought it was just because I was overweight! I can go back decade to decade now and find clues. I feel so lucky that my current doctor finally found this problem. I think of all the hundreds of doctors who have listened to my heartbeat and wonder why was this not found earlier. But, as I said, I am so lucky to have found it now before it enlarged more or I had a stroke.

Although I liked the doctors in Fond du Lac, they were limited by their technology to offering me the choice of doing nothing (die) or have open heart surgery. I chose to go to St. Luke's where on March 28 my hole was "plugged" via a catheterization, not major surgery.  I came home the next day. 

I knew I wouldn't feel better overnight but I am told that once skin grows over the "plug" I should have more energy and LESS HEADACHES! But for now, and that is where your encouragement sent through those beautiful flowers comes in, although everything is fine and progressing normally, to be truthful I don't feel all that great. I have to stay on medication for 6 months that causes 'excessive fatigue' and it does. I hate to say it but for now I feel worse than before the closure. I have been know to now take TWO naps a day! Your flowers certainly brighten my day and I carry them with me back and forth from the kitchen table to the living room coffee table so I can enjoy them in each room.  

Thank you so very, very much,

Darleen