I had a landmark birthday over the weekend. A friend who I have known since I was about five got tickets to the Little River Band concert. We went out to dinner beforehand, and I ate Ethiopian food for the first time. He had also called my two sons, whom he had never met, who live close and invited them to dinner.
One of the songs Little River Band sang that wasn’t in their greatest hits selection was You Dream I’ll Drive. (I’ll put a link below) I loved this song. I have always been a dreamer. And there have been many times when I wished I had a driver.
I know exactly how long it takes to get from the house we lived in Oakley to KU Med Center. It was five hours if we didn’t stop and eat. That’s 350 miles on I-70 across Kansas.
This is a great place to sit in silence and breathe. The Monument Rocks known by locals as the Pyramids.
In 2013 when Mike was first diagnosed with the auto-immune disease I started working as the Oakley Area Tourism Director. This job sometimes sucked the soul out of me. And there were many times when I wasn’t as present as I should have been. I quit in December of 2015 and started the Equine Gestalt Coaching Method® program in January of 2016. For this program, I attended eight in-person Core trainings and one in-person Foundation training. We also had weekly class calls, coaching calls every two weeks, textbooks, and other assignments.
About the third week in January Mike was to have surgery on his esophagus. His pre-op appointments were the week before and everything looked good. Then a few days before we were to go to Kansas City, he got sick. We went to see his primary care in Colby where they decided he had an infection and admitted him to the hospital for IV antibiotics. All this had been done while they were consulting with his surgeon. The next day we were to leave for Kansas City where he would be admitted there. Then they decided he needed a blood transfusion before he left. They’re a long process so we didn’t leave until around 5:00 pm. I’d driven in snow since Topeka about 60 miles, so I opted to stay in his hospital room with him.
I had just started the EGCM program and was glad that I could work on it while I was at the hospital with him. He was inpatient for 19 days while they tried to figure out what was going on.
Mike feeding cows in March 2007.
They ran a battery of tests and finally got a result from the Mayo Clinic that showed he might be positive for Brucellosis. They couldn’t put him on the strong antibiotic they wanted because one of the other antibiotics had caused him to have a wonky kidney function test result. Then they said they would release him while they waited on the other test to see if he was indeed positive. Three times when they said he could leave the next day he’d have a fever in the morning just high enough that they would keep him. Finally, they decided that the fever was caused by the auto-immune disease and let us go home to await the test results.
All this time I had been working on my Gestalt training and dreaming about what I would do with it. Now that dream has come true at a lovely ranch in eastern Kansas. I have a herd of five horses and now two mini donkey Gestalt partners.
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You Dream I’ll Drive. Acoustic version. Live version.
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