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<\/p>\nFor me few things supersede birds and my blogging but a visit from my daughter Shannon is one of them so this will likely be a short post.<\/p>\n
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She arrived yesterday for a short visit. I’ve only seen her a few times since her fall and resulting traumatic brain injury (TBI) almost four years ago so we’ve been reminiscing, looking at old family photos, basking in each others company and enjoying good food. Beer-butt chicken and garden tomatoes were included on last night’s menu. She loves garden tomatoes so much I accused her of visiting me only to feast on them…<\/p>\n
It’s been a long and very difficult road to recovery since her accident but thankfully she’s doing extremely well, much better than expected. ER doctors predicted she wouldn’t survive that first night in the hospital but at this point her only recurring issues are with some of her short term memory and loss of some peripheral vision in her left eye. Otherwise I have my daughter back and I’m very grateful.<\/p>\n
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Ahhh, and she even loves her dad. What more could I ask for.<\/p>\n Since her accident Shannon doesn’t enjoy time spent on the computer so she’d never seen my blog posts about her accident until last night when we went through some of them together. Reading the comments you all made back then was an emotional experience for us both. She was amazed that so many people from all over the country (and the world, really) could be so kind regarding the misfortunes of someone they don’t even know.<\/p>\n Thank you for that, from both of us.<\/p>\n Back to birds tomorrow.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Notes: <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For me few things supersede birds and my blogging but a visit from my daughter Shannon is one of them so this will likely be a short post.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shannon-and-ron-9085b-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"shannon-and-ron-9085b-ron-dudley\\"")
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