Update- The Trek of the Trache: A continuing Saga, I guess...

After all the lovely things that happened to me last night, as I was leaning over to uncover my bed, out slipped my trache tube. Horrors! Back to the Emergency Room! We had to park a block away. This place was BUSY! Several anxious looking parents to-to-be--just waiting for that first welcome cry of a new little life, beside the many sitting there with worried looks. We were prepared for a LONG wait, but that nice ER Doctor Peeters, just went ahead and put the trache back in. While he was doing it, Jack--who is the the best conversationalist--he asks questions and gets the OTHER person to talk--mentioned something about Dr. Peeters's twelve passenger boat out there on the lakefront of Chicago. It would be great sailng weather, but Dr. Peeters said when that Lake whips up, it's scary. What a nice man--a gentle giant. We had watched the Republican Candidates' debate--at least there are not hundreds of candidates as in some other countries! What I came away with after Family Values, is that the world is NOT FLAT--we cannot be isolationists, and that Teddy Roosevelt's statement is still viable: " Speak soft, but carry a big stick." I pray that our next president will also keep these things in mind and lean hard upon God for direction.