Dec 16 Beoc

Thommy and John
Good morning, I love you
12/16/09
1911


A quiet day today - recovering from yesterday’s introduction to aging - from head to toe…. The annual dental thing and a clear as day picture of one tooth that is much shorter now than it was two years ago - and it was short to begin with. Modern medico technology gives us a brilliantly clear picture of the tooth, almost in time lapse beauty - if it weren’t a picture of the tooth’s withering away and a pocket of infection taking over the little pooch where the tooth’s root once was. First we try antibiotics to alleviate the infection. If not, there‘s a technique to remove the tooth, clean out the hole, rub up the base of the root, and put the tooth back in. ….

And then there’s the toe thing - really a foot thing that includes the toes. It first felt like my sox were wadded up. Not so. Feels like a bit of swollenness at the balls of the feet and some tingling from midcalf to the tip of my middle toes. And the doc, with a consult from his orthopod partner, said it’s a not uncommon phenomenon with the nerve that comes down the leg, along the ankle, and on to the balls of the feet and toes. There’s a juncture at the ankle where nerve and vein come side by side-ish plus some connective type tissue. Anyway, it’s possible that the vein/connective tissue have bulged just enough to impact the nerve to cause the tingling and the sensation of numbness [not swollen]. Cure? There’s oral anti-inflammatory med plus keep the foot up [I’m learning to walk on my hands]. If that doesn’t work in a month, there’s the ole steroid shot to the foot. Beyond that I don’t want to talk about - having some one cutting around where nerves and blood vessels are so close, no thanks….

Packing, wrapping, and sending Christmas presents are this week’s tasks. Going to the post office tomorrow….

Not much else happening.

I got a 1998 book with the complete list of Jesuit saints, blesseds, venerables, and servants of God. None with 12/16 as their assigned day.

We do have one Irish saint, whom we can’t quite figure out which century he died… and, there are some who record him as a Welshman who came over to Ireland…. And his name? well, imagine an oral history run amuck! :)


St. Beoc
December 16 5th or 6th century

Also called Beanus, Dabeoc, Mobeoc, and Moboac.

Beoc is credited with founding a monastery in Lough Derg, in Donegal. That’s the whole bio from Angels and Saints. A man who had sufficient impact on his community, personally and with the founding of a monastery to be revered upon his death and beyond. What impact will we have on those in our family, community, parish, Church - in the immediacy of our life and our legacy, the remembrances, the seeds we sowed in people’s hearts….? And how will we do it? Beoc did it by his faith and through his building up the kingdom in the present and for the future. How is the foundation of our faith? How are we building up the present and making for a better future? How do others know us? Remember us?…

Til next time

I love you
Dad/bill