7000 emails

7000 emails.

Actually probably about 7100 since there are some in my inbox for Debbie that she has not read yet.

If you have to manage a hefty email account you know what a burden that is. And it grows every day. So Deb went back to work this week and was dreading going in—you can understand why. Of course those emails had not all accumulated just from her time out for surgery and recovery.

Some have wondered why she doesn’t stay out longer—but the month she had has gone by already, and extra days will be needed again towards the end of the year for the final reconstruction surgery.

Exercises? Some days more than other days. With a return to “normal” it has been hard for her to build in time for regular post-surgery rehab exercise. In fact since she is not walking to work now she doesn’t get that either. For people like us the regular disciplines of life are some of the most difficult to maintain. We don’t eat on a schedule, don’t travel on a schedule, don’t play on a schedule, don’t sleep on a schedule (but usually it is at night!) and I guess work is the schedule—which we tend to put in to a lot of different time slots.

So, before heading back to “work” Deb managed to pull the 7,000 down to 6,000. The practice here is that when you don’t answer after a certain period of time, then an email is either too old to be of importance, forgotten by the sender, or the matter needing comment was resolved, ended or missed. I suggested that I could cause her computer to crash and it would be faster to just say “my computer crashed and I lost your email” but she figured that it would take more time to remember the 7,000 and write them the message than to sort through the stack. Probably after a week she is back to 6500.

We have had some very interesting visits from folks this past month. Some have been work-related and some have been reconstructing and building on long friendships. We are deeply privileged to have friends that understand and love crazy people like us. These are blessings of the Savior who walks with us in the valleys and on the mountains, and in the skies.
Two more sets of good friends expected in this week. It is a good thing that all our emails don't sit in the box unattended!