Yesterday was October 2nd, the day of my sinus surgery. But early in the morning, as I lay sleeping in my bed, I felt someone staring at me. I opened my eyes to see who it was. And there was my Dad staring back at me.
You should remember that my Dad passed away in July of 2013. That’s more than six years ago. And yet, there he was staring at me. I lifted my head off the pillow and looked at his body. He was there, in the flesh. His ethereal flesh, I would have to say.
It meant a lot that Dad came to see me before I left for the surgery. But what did his visit mean, I pondered this. He looked serious, not his usual happy-go-lucky look.
I woke up yesterday afternoon after my surgery, expecting to go home. “I’m so sorry to tell you this,” my surgeon explained. “I knicked something and your spinal fluid began to leak from your brain. I patched it. But you will have to stay in the hospital for at least 2 days with complete bed rest.”
So here I lie flat on my back, using the bedpan and taking pain meds for the horrendous headache. But also comforted to know that Dad is near. Thank you, Daddy. It reminds me of those 5 weeks I spent with you, in the hospital. Your last 5 weeks here with us. What a gift!
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As a toddler, Sue Baumgardner made up stories for herself looking at books she could not read and later spun tales for her younger sisters. After she had her own children, she told them tales and eventually wove a new pattern into the fabric of their lives. As the three sat together, one would begin with a story idea of her own. She spoke perhaps a paragraph or two or three, then pointed to the next who would take up the thread and continue with her own evolution of the story line passed to her, until she pointed to the next. The third person wove her own ideas into the story progression. After the three each had a turn, anyone could end the story, in their turn, whenever it felt complete to them.
After her children were adults, Sue studied writing, first poetry and then prose. After six semesters in adult education, she was thoroughly hooked on the story art form. Sue continued with dozens of classes, seminars and writing retreats. She studied writing and publishing under the likes of James Patterson, Peter Behrens, and Mark Dawson.
As a contributor to the Discover Maine Magazine, Sue received her first check for her prose.
Her poetry has been published in The Aurorian.
She has six of her paperbacks along with four ebooks published. They include fiction and nonfiction for adults and fiction for Middle Readers.
Her very first publishing though began with Greeting Card Universe, where Sue’s greeting cards with verse are sold across the world.
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