June 30 and still around to update this

Another month has come and gone. All of life is great! Megan is living close to us and I get to see Maxwell quite regularly. This will continue until Megan tells me I come by too often. Only time will tell on this.
We really enjoyed the family reunion. Good to see these family members and talk about old times. They always tell stories that I don't know but I still enjoy listening to them. I always here something about how one of them carried me around. One of the benefits of being the youngest is they remember things that I was too young for. I was asked what I could remember about my Grandpa and I could not come up with anything. I was only 2 years old when he died and 12 years old when Granny died. I remember many things about her and about times when she was still here. I don't know if they carried me because they wanted to or because they had to, but I have always felt the love they all have for me.
I had an interesting thing happen to me today. A lady I know from work called me to talk. She was scared to ask, but wanted to talk in a personal mode. She asked about my recovery, how it went and how I dealt with it. I started talking but did not want to give too many details without knowing what was causing all of this thinking. It turns out, her Dad was injured by a bull when they were in a pen. It evidently kicked him several times real hard. It shattered his spine and the doctors had to put pins in it. She wanted to know so she would know what was ahead and how to deal with it. We talked for quite a while and I felt better about talking once I knew WHY. I tried to explain to her the ups and downs he would experience. Some days he will be up and the next he may be down. Sometimes, both in the same day. I tried to tell her the most important part was to keep his experience up. Once someone like that gets down, the improvements slow down. I really think the mind has a lot to do with it. I also told her that my HARD-HEADEDNESS helped me a lot because when they told me something, I just wanted to prove them wrong. When they said one year in a chair, I just wanted to show them that was not for me. I have people ask me a lot why I am always in such a good mood. I blame this on God. He is the ONE that helped me pull through all of this pain and disappointments and helped me learn to enjoy EVERY DAY.
Does anyone but me remember what next Tuesday is? It is a Holiday for me. 2 years are gone but I still wake up breathing every day. Thank you God for making 7/7/07 a special day for me and all my family and friends.
Yes, it has been over two weeks since I wrote here but I still check it every few days to see if there are any comments added. Several people at the reunion told me they still read it but rarely add any comments. My next event is my school reunion. It is on 8/8/09 and I am really looking forward to this day.
My love to you all.
Mark 6/30/09