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Rosalie Smiles in Her Fancy New Hat-See Update in description


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January 18, 2006: After having been short of breath for several days, Rosalie was admitted to the hospital last evening. The doctors found that she had an infection that caused the breathing difficulties and are treating her.

Some friends of Wayne and Pat’s had come by to see her this evening along with other friends/family. She told me that some of her fellow colleagues–nurses at the hospital she’d worked with in the past–had stopped by to visit today and asked her to come back to work. It was also a blessing to have our friend, Simmie, stop by for a visit and have prayer with her.

Reluctantly, she allowed me to take her photograph after Jim placed his hat on her head. Previously, she had said that my present to her on her 86th birthday–upcoming on February 1–would be for me to take NO pictures of her in the hospital.

Wayne and Pat were happy to see her smiling after the hat was placed on her head as she looked forward to Alice coming later to spend the night with her in the hospital knowing that both of them would get a good night’s rest with Rosalie’s improved condition.

Here’s a picture of Rosalie 31 years ago with her husband, Big Jim: www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/87986373/

Another update–January 19, 2006: Rosa was diagnosed with lung cancer 5 months ago which caused fluid to build up in her lungs. A tube was inserted to withdraw the fluid peridically. She was also given a powerful Chemo "pill" to prohibit the growth of the cancer in her lungs. A few weeks ago, the fluid was no longer in her lungs, the tube was removed from her lungs, and x-rays showed no sign of the lung cancer. As with similar drugs, she lost some of her hair and was weak. The family is guessing–after some research–that the drug to prohibit the growth of the lung cancer was causing the shortness of breath. Not taking the drug and having breathing treatments in the hospital–in addition to antibiotics for possible infection–have increased Rosa’s ability to breathe more normally; although, she is still weak. So prayers are asked for her continued healing and a regaining of her strength–and hair.

Medusa at the Temple of Apollo


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Medusa guarding The Temple of Apollo at Didyma. In Greek mythology, Medusa is one of the three gorgons. The gorgons were vicious female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. They turned to stone those who beheld them.

Didyma, on the west coast of Turkey, was an important sacred site in the ancient Greek world. Its famous oracle and Temple of Apollo attracted crowds of pilgrims and was second in importance only to Delphi. Today, the temple’s magnificent ruins still attract thousands of visitors – Didyma is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Turkey. The modern name of the town is Didim.

Didyma means "twin" and refers to the twins Apollo and Artemis, who were born to Zeus and Leto. The Temple of Artemis was in the nearby city of Miletus, while the much more important Temple of Apollo was in Didyma.
The Temple of Apollo at Didyma, also known as the Didymaion, has a long history. Pausanias (c. 160 AD) said the Didymaion was constructed before Greek colonization (10th century BC), and some date it to the 2nd millennium BC.
However, the earliest fragments of the temple found thus far date to the end of the 8th century BC. This Archaic temple was in the charge of the Branchids, a priestly caste named after Branchus, a favourite youth of Apollo. Three prose oracles and one dedication survive from this period.

The original temple was destroyed by Darius I of Persia in 494 BC, who looted many of the statues and its vast treasury built up by the generous gifts of Croesus, King of Lydia. The Branchids were exiled to Sogdiana.
After Alexander the Great conquered Miletus in 334 BC, the oracle of Apollo at Didyma was resanctified and quickly regained its importance. Thereafter Miletus administered the cult of Apollo, annually electing a prophet. In 313 BC, the Milesians began to build a new Hellenistic temple on the site of the earlier shrine, which they intended to be the largest in the Greek world. It is this temple that visitors see today.
Construction continued during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, and portions were still under construction in the Roman period. It was never entirely completed. Modern experts believe the magnificent temple would have been one of the seven wonders of the ancient world had it been completed. Even incomplete, the temple is enormous and impressive; it is the third largest in the ancient world after those of Ephesus and Samos.

The Oracle of Apollo at Didyma rivaled that of Delphi; pilgrims flocked to Didyma not only to worship Apollo and attend the festival, but also to find answers about their future. Famous persons known to have visited Didyma’s Temple of Apollo include Alexander the Great’s generals Lysimachus and Seleucus I, and the Roman emperors Augustus and Trajan.

Didyma’s fate was probably sealed in 303 AD, when an oracle advised the Emperor Diocletian to initiate his persecution of the Christian church. Constantine the Great, who was raised in the court of Diocletian and later converted to Christianity, closed the oracle and executed the priests.
In the 5th century AD, Emperor Theodosius built a Christian basilica in the adyton (sacred precinct) of the temple at Didyma, which testifies to the site’s religious importance. Indeed, a number of oracles have been found on inscriptions and in literary sources that postdate Constantine’s closure.
The church and much of the temple stood until the 15th century, when a great earthquake reduced the temple to rubble. Excavations made between 1905 and 1930 revealed all of the incomplete Hellenistic temple and some carved pieces of the earlier temple and statues.

My post-hospital self


Image by Sören ‘chucker’ Kuklau
Hair and beard freshly cut. Still haven’t regained any of the weight, but the blood sugar values are a lot more stable.