Gettin over it....

Today I started the 30 minute walk that Virgin miles recommends. They say 5 times a week is best but I think 4 for me right now is about it. I don't have my neat pedometer yet, but ordered it yesterday. There are basically two areas to walk to/in- around my home-the Plaza two blocks south or Westport three blocks north. I found out today that it is 15 minutes to Panera's in Westport the way I walk. If you walk from my condo to Westport, it is nearly impossible to miss walking on a sidewalk that belongs to St. Luke's Hospital. But I am not at all happy about how our insurance program no longer works at St. Luke due, I think more to our insurance program than St. Luke's. So I tried to avoid St. Luke's, which I did until when walking back by a different way than I had come, the sidewalk where I had hoped to walk and thus avoid St. Luke's, was, alas, blocked by an underground cable truck, and, alas and alack, I had to walk on the sidewalk by the parking garage for St. Luke's on Broadway. And as I crossed the street to get there and avoid the truck, I whiffed a lovely sniff...it was the trees that bordered the sidewalk ---the parking garage on one side, the trees on the other. It was a gentle, not clinging fragrance and not only that, the five trees along the sidewalk offered a cool canopy under which to walk.

Maybe I had best buck up about St. Luke and pray that somehow soon we will be able to use them again. Actually, two weeks ago, when Cana had to be rushed to the emergency room with pain in her side, I did take her to St Luke's, and the folks were wonderful. At one point her doctor was talking about admitting her, and we all thought we were going to have to drive her to KU med center, because of the lack of hospitalization insurance with St. Luke's.. The accounts manager for the hospital was there that Saturday, came down and talked with us, and said that she could be admitted and with a little fancy penwork by him, her bill would be treated as if she did have an accepted insurance.

So all in all, St Luke has been pretty nice (and gives good medical care) to us and to the many parishioners I saw there over the 5 years I was at Broadway. I will, in fact, walk that walk through the cool, aromatic lane of trees this summer, and be thankful.

PS Here is a little branch that had fallen from one of the trees. I am far from being a botanist...anyone know what it is???