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Remembering/100th post

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Looking back is hard. To remember is almost too much. Too much pain. Too many times death came too close. Too much recognition in his eyes. Too much time away from family. Too much lonliness. Too many memories Too much pain. Too small. Too many things that didn't have to be. Too many scars. It hurts to even look at pictures. You won't see all of them. Ever.  It's too hard. BUT There were also special moments. Never too many smiles. Never too much love. And a very special Christmas. I know. I know h e is fearfully and wonderfully made. I know he is loved. I know he is created to do great things. I know I am not the same. What His(God's) methods will be with you I cannot fortell. But you may be sure that He never works in an arbitrary way. He has a reason for everything He does. You may not understand why He leads you now in this way and now in that, but you ma...

It's all about the Benjamins, baby.

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One hundred. What's so special about that number, you ask? Well, I just so happen to have an answer. For starters, it's the number of vocal sounds that a cat has. It's also how many zeros you need to make a googol, the number of surnames accountable for 85% of the Chinese population, about how many earthquakes occur in a year that cause damage, and the dollar bill that Benjamin Franklin is on. It is also how many days old Rambo is today. One hundred. I can assure you this is not how I thought I would be spending one hundred days of my life - ever. I can also tell you that they have been the best of times and the worst of times. We've encountered everything from him literally almost dying right in front of us to watching him blow huge snot monsters out of his nose. The respiratory therapists love it - seriously, they do. They use whats called a 'neosucker' to suck mucous out of the mouth and nose. I'm not gonna lie, once you've used it enough it becomes...