Love Hard

      When you truly have a near-death experience it makes you realize how important the people you love are! A week ago, we went to see Jacque, Michale, and Phiona in San Antonio.  It was so great to see them, in person and spend some much-needed quality time with them.  One of the things they wanted to share with us was a float trip down the Guadalupe River, north of San Antonio.  It's one of their favorite things to do, so naturally, we were game!

     The water was not deep at all!  Most of the time it was barely over our hips. Jacque and Michaeel acrually spent much of the time dragging us!  It was a beautiful day!!  In one very small area (two feet wide by five feet long) there was just a bit of white water.  There was a guy standing at the top of this area, holding onto three tubes, like he was waiting for someone to catch up to him.  Anyway, my tube hit one of his and flipped.  I could touch, but couldn't get my footing due to the pressure of the water and the tubes on top of my head.  It was so scary.  I am not exaggerating when I say that I thought I was going to die!  At the last second, I was able to get my head above the water, though under a capsized tube, giving me a pocket of air.

     So other people helped me to the shore, where I was bent over, gasping for air.  I looked upstream, to see where Chuck was and he was sitting on a boulder by the fast water.  I found out later, that he thought he hit his chest where his pacemaker.defibrillator is, however, there was no bruising.  We later figured out that his heart rate went up while he was trying to rescue me and his device shocked him.  Almost a double whammy!

     After we got out of the river, I had him put his Smart Watch on and check is pulse and blood pressure and both were back to normal.  Praise God!

     All this to say that life is precious and you never know when it can be taken from you. So love hard and tell those that you love how important they are to you!