All my life I have been told "put some salt on that watermelon. it will make it taste sweeter" I never did because I thought "salt to make something sweeter? Does the salt activate your salty taste buds to make your sweet taste buds surprised when it tastes something sweet to be even sweeter." Never did I try it because I thought I was smarter than that. Yesterday I brought home a watermelon from the Pig (Piggly Wiggly....my husband and his brother are co-owners with their stepdad). It was a "VERY RIPE" watermelon that needed to be eaten within the next two days. I cut it up just 30 minutes ago and tasted it. Not as sweet as the one I tasted yesterday at the store but sweet. I saw the bottle of salt on the counter and decided....."hmmmm after 31 years of being 'smarter than that' I'm try it out." I put a little salt on a piece and ate it. Lo and behold...............I was smarter than that. The salt did not make the watermelon taste any sweeter. It made it taste salty sweet. Not better and even a little worse. I decided to give it one more try. Maybe I put on too much salt. Nope just as salty sweet as before. So what did I learn. Trust my instincts! When will I finally learn NEVER to second guess myself? Well except when I NEED to second guess myself.
POST#2:
Here are recent pics (about 20 minutes ago) of Alexis. Notice the corners of her mouth turning up! (Bell's Palsy on the left side would be the right side of the picture) Notice her eyebrows. The last two pics are with her raising her brows. While the 3rd pic overall is her looking normal. First pic....well she was smiling and talking at the same time. Her left eye appears to be larger than the right and it does open slightly more than the right. However, the members of our family all tend to have one eye that opens larger than the other. No big deal. Something we are all use to. I took a picture from 3 years ago (exactly) and took her eyes out (on the computer that is) and compared the openings. Her left eye was larger than the right. Not as much as in the first picture above but still larger. I would say that she is about 90% improved over the first day she came down with it. The right side was about 95% improved over the first day she came down with it on the right side when she woke up that Saturday 100% improved on the right and 100% worse on left. If she were to not improve from today, I would not be saddened. No one who meets her notices anything wrong.
Now notice the left eye as well as the corner of her mouth on this picture. It was taken on June 21 at Disney World. Big difference!
4 comments:
oh Keri!! I am sitting here bawling my eyes out. And praising God!!! She is soooo much better then just last month!!! thank you for posting this I will put a post on my blog for others to scoot over here for a look.
keri i got this from a chat friend and am forwarding it to you, she couldn't post a comment cause she isn't a blogger.
Wow !~! I couldn't find a place to leave a comment on Keri's site so please forward to her for me. That girl is so cute and I can see almost 100% improvement. Keri, I chat with your dear mom almost everyday and she's kept me up to date on Alexis's progress. I am so proud of you and your family. Kaci was living quite close to me and your mom and I did have plans to meet one day/some day but Kaci moved away from me and back to mom :( Great for your family but some day Keri, some day !~! Anyways, will let you go and keep up the great work with your family. Hugs Lauretta from Ft. Walton Beach FL
I read your mom's blog and love her dearly! She is a blessing...how lucky you are! Stop by and "see" me sometime on my blog! Praise the Lord for Alexis's improvments!
~Mere
Lou Lou looks so much better!!! I made a comment tonight while eating dinner (dad made chicken fried rice) that we had some Asian in us, and that's why our eyes are like they are. (Before you go thinking its true...its not. :-p) And watermelon IS better with salt!!
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