Paris’ Luxembourg Gardens One of our favorite days of our 2018 week in Paris was the Sunday we spent in the Luxembourg Gardens, wandering along the sandy paths with other couples, grandmothers and grandchildren, entire families, “le tout Paris.” Jardín du Luxembourg, July 2018 Amsterdam’s Vondelpark The following week, we discovered much the same bucolic…
I will always feel deeply grateful to the staff in Amsterdam and at Shands who carried me through the days, months, and years since May 5,2019, but it feels darn good to be a civilian again.
Recovering in Amsterdam When I was hospitalized for three months in Holland in 2019, the highlight of each day was spending the afternoon hours with my husband. It was the only thing that kept him going, he told me much later. Although our daughter had flown to be by his side for the six weeks…
As I sipped my first cup of coffee this morning, I checked for the Amsterdam time. It was about two in the afternoon, two years ago to the hour from when my heart stopped on May 5, 2019. My second anniversary We’d just crossed the Atlantic on a Holland America cruise ship and should have…
Visitors tiptoe through the tulips in Dutch virus test, wrote Mike Corder recently for the AP, documenting the opening of the famed Keukenhof Gardens for a lucky 5,000 people. It is one of hundreds of public venues that the Dutch government has allowed to reopen under strict conditions to evaluate whether rapid testing can safely…
Experience the Dutch national winter sport of skating on canals, back for the first time in a decade.
This Valentine’s Day, I walked 4 miles listening to the sacred music that inspired my healing during my hospitalization in Amsterdam and thanking all the angels that brought me back into life.
Just by showing up, our daughter has saved our lives not once but three times. She is our superhero.
The dark nightmares that take over the minds of terribly sick patients can become the happy dreams of recovery. i had icu psychosis As I was battling death in the intensive care unit of OLVG hospital in Amsterdam, I believed my dreams or, rather, my nightmares. I believed an evil nurse was torturing me in…
Christmas with Carnival Cruises, 2018 Before my I very nearly died during our 2019 Atlantic crossing, my husband and I had become frequent cruisers. The ports of Ft. Lauderdale and Miami are a short drive from our South Florida home, and we enjoyed cruises through the Caribbean, on the Mediterranean, and on the Baltic Sea.…