Category: Tunes

I want to start off this blog post by stating that I am so concerned about my vision! I currently am wearing my contacts and my glasses and therefore cannot read my phone. I place pictures and videos on my blog using my phone. I need to wait until it saves on my phone and in my blog dashboard so then I can edit my blog post using my iPad that I bought in January. So I am writing this here stating that I am super concerned about it but I was going to write a different blog post with that same name but I just want to say that it’s concerning!

But, about this particular blog post. My Mom got her hair colored today and she asked me to check the weather because her phone is not currently working. I told her that it was 94° but that it felt like 105°!!! I was so grateful that I am not going out of the house today! But then that concerned me because tomorrow I go back to the infectious disease clinic.

Every single time for a few years now, whenever I tell my mom that I am concerned, she sings this line from this song! She always would ask me if I knew what song she was talking about and I look at her straight in her eye and remind her, “I was born in 1982.” Of course I would not know that song! But we never tire of laughing when my mom sings that line because so much with my disease progression is concerning me and I constantly say that I am concerned and my Mom answers in turn like this:

I was being extremely careful with my chapstick because I did not want to have to have another, “Bag of Chapstick” even though that always makes me think of that student back when I taught English. Late last night, this happened:

I am going to finish this in probably a week but this song plays in my head every time this happens:

I think that it is a good sign that random songs pop into my head now that my feet are starting to feel better. Granted, they are just starting but it’s movement in the right direction. I just thought of this song and I am reminded of being in middle school at the parking lot across from Fr. Yagley Hall decorating cars for the homecoming parade! I think my brother was playing in the game because I was still maybe 11 or 12? And I remember my friend, Erica, singing this song as we were decorating cars before the parade endgame down the street on a crisp fall afternoon:

My optometrist appointment was last Thursday. I think it has taken until today, right now, to fully sink in. That horrible doctor was correct! I think I’m a long way from being blind but Dr. Harris did not change my prescription because he wants me to be able to see up close and if he strengthens my prescription, I would lose my nearsighted ability. He says that that is better in my situation then seeing far away.

I think that he is correct and as I was wiping the tears from my eyes with my left sleeve, because it is quite difficult not to be able to see clearly even with contacts or glasses. I thought of this song and I saw myself and either my cousin, Melissa, my cousinT, Shannon, or my friend, Heather growing up In the backseat of my Mom’s station wagon singing along with this song.

I just searched it on YouTube and had to listen to it just before I wrote this blog post and I still remember the words and I could see myself in the backseat of that station wagon, singing!

I just referenced this song to Sean yesterday and I have not stopped thinking about it since then. I gave him a little context:

I was so shocked that this song came out just at the time I found out that I was pregnant with Sean. I had a completely different life back then! I guess that’s why I’ve been thinking about this song all day!!!:

After I told my Mom about my random memory of Mr. Dean’s wedding song, she started humming a song and I knew that I recognized it but I could not place it. After some discussion, we found out what song it was. I was thinking of it like this:

But she was thinking of it like this:

But the words were the same so we were singing the same thing but it’s so sad to me that I no longer can hold a tune like I used to be able to but my Mom didn’t care how it sounded. It was just fun to sing along with her and our late night sing-along!

Sonya, my head wound care nurse came back today and when she looked at my right foot, she said it was amazing! When I heard her say that, this song popped into my head so I guess that I am seriously turning a corner because my right foot does not hurt as badly and I can think about songs:

She told me that she wraps a lot of feet! But then she added, that not all feet are pretty like mine. I was shocked when she said that and I laughed. She told me that she has seen a lot of feet and a lot of them are dirty and she said that nine ‘clean’ and ‘dainty’ and that I have ‘pretty feet.’