{"id":573880833,"date":"2010-11-24T20:43:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T02:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880833"},"modified":"2010-11-26T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T21:49:06","slug":"family-visiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/11\/24\/family-visiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Family visiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Visited with two of my grandmothers today. My great-grandmother recently fell, and had to have rods put in her hip. Modern medicine is so impressive. That’s just three tiny incisions. She’s a nonagenarian and no surgery is a small thing, though. (She’s a tough lady. She had open-heart surgery three or four years ago and bounced right back.)<\/p>\n

Today she was sitting in a chair, for hours she said. She walked 15 feet in therapy yesterday. Told you she’s tough.<\/p>\n

We had a long talk about the Bible, her example to the family and how much getting rods in the hip hurt. But she’s made of stern stuff.<\/p>\n

Spent the evening with another grandmother, who recently had a different kind of leg surgery. Now as tough as my great-grandmother is, this grandmother is perhaps the strongest lady I know. She’s moving around great and in good spirits. And that’s the key.<\/p>\n

Me, I groan getting out of the car.<\/p>\n

We had dinner from my aunt’s five-star<\/a> restaurant. It doesn’t hurt that there’s only 350 people and one other restaurant in that town, but it is true. I looked them up on all of the online review spots. You can’t go wrong at Fish Creel if you want catfish or shrimp. <\/p>\n

As we were leaving we saw one of those third cousins twice removed who I’ve apparently once or twice before. Also, while playfully discussing the hereditary stubborn gene, I learned a family name I’ve never heard before. I’ll have to look that branch up one day. <\/p>\n

Even when you know where you come from, you still find new places that you’ve been. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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