I don't think my wife got a picture, but yesterday I climbed a tree. Well, at least a little bit - with a ladder head start. We've neglected the cherry tree at the front of our house for too long, and it's grown way too tall. It's too close to the house and I've considered taking it out completely. We still may do that.
I started out just cutting some of the branches that were easy to access from the ladder. Then I looked at it again, assessed my energy, and climbed in. I hung on with my affected arm and cut a few higher branches. Hurricane Earls' wind blew me around a bit. Every once in a while I thought; "what am I doing? I have Parkinson's." Somehow I was able to hang on and cut out about two-thirds of the branches. They're now laying in the driveway waiting for me to clean them up.
I think God is trying to tell me I can do more. And - that He'll take care of me even if I do something stupid.
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Rick,
Cherry tree climbing? Thats awesome !!!! Get this, the other day I was experiencing the usual weak legs side effects from the drug trying to go up the stairs. So I climbed them by putting my hands down too and flew up those stairs like lightning. What the hey? Then I thought to myself, self, lets see if you can run to the bedromm from here. I did. I havent been able to run like forever. I was so wiped out after that though. Yeah, Im kinda stupid but I was happy.
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