Jodi's Journey

Awesome Book Giveaway Of 'The Widow Of Saunders Creek' By Tracey Bateman

I am going to do something a little bit different on my blog. I am going to host a book giveaway. This is an awesome book I posted my review of this book here. This is the type of book you can't put down. Please enter below, the more points you get the better chance you have of winning! I would like to give something back to my readers (friends), a way of saying thank you for being faithful, folowers, readers, and my wonderful blogosphere friends, that I am so thankful to each one of you for many different reasons. Good luck!

Overview: A grief that knows no boundary. A love without any limit. A need that doesn’t end at death.

Corrie Saunders grew up in a life of privilege. But she gave it all up for Jarrod, her Army husband, a man she knew was a hero when she vowed to spend her life with him. She just didn’t expect her hero to sacrifice his life taking on an Iraqi suicide bomber.

Six months after Jarrod’s death, Corrie retreats to the family home her husband inherited deep in the Missouri Ozarks. She doesn’t know how to live without Jarrod—she doesn’t want to. By moving to Saunders Creek and living in a house beloved by him, she hopes that somehow her Jarrod will come back to her.

Something about the house suggests maybe he has. Corrie begins to wonder if she can feel Jarrod’s presence.

Jarrod’s cousin Eli is helping Corrie with the house’s restoration and he knows that his dead cousin is not what Corrie senses. Eli, as a believing man and at odds with his mystically-oriented family members, thinks friendly visits from beyond are hogwash. But he takes spirits with dark intentions seriously. Can he convince Corrie that letting go of Jarrod will lead to finding her footing again— and to the One she can truly put her faith into?

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Oct 17, 2008

Welcome to my world

Well I have been out of commission for 4 days now. I have been in so much pain since Monday night it is unreal. I have not been able to get out of bed much at all, this really stinks. So here I here I am laying in bed with my laptop watching what I have on my DVR so far.

I was sitting here thinking it is hard for me to remember what is was like anymore to live pain free, and that is sad. I am especially upset that I can not go with my grandbabies this year Trick-Or-Treating, I have gone every year with them since they have been born and now I am unable to this year, so I cry allot lately too. I can barely sit in a chair for more then 2 hours at a time let alone try to walk too far.

Now I know that I should not do this but I have stopped taking my Naproxen (for the arthritis) because it is not helping me at this point. Now that is not to say that after my surgery it won't but at this point it is just causing me to put more weight on that I do NOT need right now (or ever for that matter, lol).

I believe that once they do the Fusion PLUS get the cist off of my spine that is also pushing against nerves, things will be a heck of allot better for me then they are now. The reason it is taking so long for my surgery is because I am a smoker and Fusions do not work for very long on smokers. When you smoke your blood does not flow like someone who does not smoke. See Smokers And Fusions

So my doctor said I had to quit before he would even consider doing the surgery so this has been a living nightmare. Trying to quit smoking on top of all of this pain has been absolutely CRAZY for me. Quitting smoking is worse then a heroin addict trying to kick heroin, this has been one heck of a battle let me tell you. And hey I understand that I need to quit, not just for the surgery but for myself and my health as well as my family. I am also taking Chantix which I have to say has been helping me so much, I just can't believe it. I am a two pack a day person and I am now down to a half of a cigarette a day, which I think is pretty darn good considering how many packs I was smoking a day. Woo hoo!!

So this has been my world for the past year, just a heck of allot worse in the past 6 months!, unfortunately.