Wrapping Up Share

* I feel kind of like I've turned into a prayer request machine lately, so I'm sorry...and not sorry. If you're up for praying for me again, well...I'm not sure how to ask you to pray! My gallbladder needs to come out on the double, and it might happen today...or it might not. Either way, we're working with doctors toward that and while I feel peaceful, I would love your prayers for direction and clarity as we try to make this thing happen quickly.

* Today is also another monthiversary in the land of Shaffer, and I am SO GRATEFUL for a husband who is taking the "in sickness" vows like a champ and has made this whole journey as painless for me as possible. My part of the pain is to manage the ACTUAL pain and he's managing the paperwork pain. To be honest, I'm not sure which is the worst. Thanks, Baby, for being the husband of my dreams every day, and most especially in this kind of thing that I never really bothered to dream about. {Who would???}

AND NOW - back to the original purpose of this post, which is to report on the end of Share 2015 at work. Friday is always the longest day of Share, because it's the only day when the whole staff has to work the entire shift: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. or whenever they shut down the phones. I was so tired from a long week...made longer because it was a Lynne-less week AND because of my sketchy health. Ryan wanted me to rest as much as possible, so that darling man got up at 3:45 in the morning on Friday, and he DROVE ME all the way to Fort Wayne, so I could rest and not have to worry with an hour of driving at 4:30 in the morning. He then drove all the way back to Kokomo {almost a 2 hour drive} and worked a full day...and then drove back to Fort Wayne to get me. I LOVE THIS MAN!!!!!!!

Friday morning, I was in a video for work {my third that week, actually...apparently I'm a part time TV reporter and didn't even know!} and it was fun. I got to interview Silas the Super Dog!

Apparently in the making of this video, THIS particular choice of poses messed with my stomach, because immediately after doing this, I was in some significant pain again. I ended up in my office for an hour, just breathing through the pain, and after some serious prayers, I was able to be well in the nick of time to be back on the air.

We had a great day - so blessed by all the people who joined us to help make another year of radio possible!

And look who volunteered in the phone room!!! My friend Elisa!

Ryan came back to get me, but he got a little sidetracked {forever} talking to my co-worker Cindy's husband!

{Not sure what they were plotting, but I have a feeling Cindy and I are in trouble.}




After this, he told me about the great next health debacle of 2015...my stone-filled gallbladder. BOO. Apparently I handled the news much better than he anticipated. Maybe that's the advantage of being worn out from a week of Share!


We stayed for the final on-air wrap-up. We are just a couple hundred thousand away from our goal, which is really good!

 A tradition at the station is having any new employees share on-air about their first week of Share. This time it was our new IT guys, Dan. He did a great job keeping us up and running!

I closed up my desk - for who knows how many days - and said goodbye!

Thanks for taking this journey with me the last few days!