I BET, You have NEVER known anyone like AL!

 Photo from the Past:

 

Now for today:

Okay here we go the most UNIQUE man I ever met.  Yesterday I mentioned Al and Judy, folks with a trait I WISH I nurtured myself. They both had a way of stating facts or giving a straight HONEST answer without hurting someone’s feelings.

EXAMPLE: On one visit, we found an RV park within 10 miles of their home. Sherry CALLED (yes they did have a land line thru the woods to their log house but not electricity). Sherry told Judy were close by and wanted to visit, we knew Al was sick. Judy answered matter of fact-ly, ”Good to hear from you guys, but this would not be a good time. Give me a call tomorrow.”

We were honestly glad she said that. KNOWING her, we knew she had good reason.

I said that to say this: If that had been us, we would have said, “Great to hear from you, Oh yes come on over!”  Then we would have driven ourselves ragged, no matter what the circumstances, to get ready for company!   You know .... straighten the house, hide the dirty dishes, move things around in the sick room etc….  The one of us sick would put on our best smiley face,  Which is very silly.

WE checked the next day and had a good visit with Al, the last visit with him methinks.

Note on the picture above the bandage on his finger! The doctor had just told him it needed to come off it was badly infected. Al’s answer, “Doc, if God wants that finger off he will take it, not you!”  He never went back.  What happened, you ask?  Believe it or not, Al let the finger rot off!  Ever heard of that? NOT ME! We saw him a couple times before it finally ‘fell off’, there was a little scent, but not like you would have thought.

Believe me, we saw the results, and no surgeon could have done a better job, the stump grew over perfectly. COULD I HAVE DONE THAT? Not on your life!!  He kept the finger in a sandwich size ziplock bag. :-O

You ain’t gonna believe this, but later he added a toe to that bag. HONEST, all the time smiling and going about life as if nothing was wrong…. He said it didn’t hurt half as bad as it would healing if he had allowed surgery!

Al did accept Doctors, if he agreed with their findings. He had dialysis, toward the end of his life.

I have more tales of that couple, maybe later. LOL

Nite Shipslog

PS:

God has allowed us to meet some of the best folk on the planet. In person and here on the net.  Thank you all for being here… and being YOU, and reading an old man’s memories. And YES this one is strangely, VERY TRUE!