My sister in law Tina just forwarded this to me and it gave me a much needed laugh... thanks Tina!
YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2007 when...
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 50) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before> getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : -)
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.
AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.
**If you missed yesterday's blog, see below..**
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY POP-POP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We want to send out a GREAT BIG Happy Birthday wish today to my Dad (aka Pop-Pop & Grandpa Racecar). We all love you so very much and couldn't have been blessed with a better Dad! Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for all of us. Thank you for still making us laugh and for not "offing" yourself just yet with all your little race car, lawnmower, or home repair mishaps :) Hope you have a great day Dad! Love you bunches and heaps and piles :)
Monday, June 25, 2007
My Sister
First off - THANK YOU to all of you who commented and have Karen in your prayers! I sincerely appreciate it and I know she does too!
When I left off Friday before last we all had hoped that the wedding was still going to take place. As I was driving out of town on Friday I got a call from Dad telling me that the vacation was off for them and Karen. And that the wedding would be postponed. They started radiation on the 3 (once believed to only have 2 spots, but now there's 3) spots on her brain on Tues, and she goes every (business) day for 10 days. She's also taking a chemo pill and steroids to help the other spots chill out till she's done with radiation and can start full chemo. I talked to her and Mark last Wed. and they filled me in on all the final test results. As I mentioned, there are now 3 spots on her brain, a tumor on her shoulder and leg, one in between where her lungs meet, one on her liver, a 3" one on her ovary (which they believe is where it all started), and multiple little spots on each lung. The spots on the lung they described as looking like salt and pepper all over the place. The doctor is worried about these spots on her lungs developing while she is finishing up radiation. So again I ask that if any of you are so inclined, please pray that these little spots (and the other locations) will chill out till she can get the full dose of chemo.
She is taking an anti-nausea medicine and it seems to be helping, but she still tired and achy. But in EXCELLENT spirits! She's one tough cookie! She even went to see Dad race this past Saturday.
We went to the spot on the beach where she was supposed to get married and I put a little graffiti on the beach marker and we all wrote notes in the sand for her. I took a picture of all of them and got a really nice shot of the beach looking out towards the ocean with a huge thunderhead in the background. The kids made them a wedding cake in the sand and we all took a group picture behind it. She was definitely heavy on all our minds. And heavy in our prayers.
I hope and pray to be posting some positive news soon. Thank you again for all your thoughts and prayers.
When I left off Friday before last we all had hoped that the wedding was still going to take place. As I was driving out of town on Friday I got a call from Dad telling me that the vacation was off for them and Karen. And that the wedding would be postponed. They started radiation on the 3 (once believed to only have 2 spots, but now there's 3) spots on her brain on Tues, and she goes every (business) day for 10 days. She's also taking a chemo pill and steroids to help the other spots chill out till she's done with radiation and can start full chemo. I talked to her and Mark last Wed. and they filled me in on all the final test results. As I mentioned, there are now 3 spots on her brain, a tumor on her shoulder and leg, one in between where her lungs meet, one on her liver, a 3" one on her ovary (which they believe is where it all started), and multiple little spots on each lung. The spots on the lung they described as looking like salt and pepper all over the place. The doctor is worried about these spots on her lungs developing while she is finishing up radiation. So again I ask that if any of you are so inclined, please pray that these little spots (and the other locations) will chill out till she can get the full dose of chemo.
She is taking an anti-nausea medicine and it seems to be helping, but she still tired and achy. But in EXCELLENT spirits! She's one tough cookie! She even went to see Dad race this past Saturday.
We went to the spot on the beach where she was supposed to get married and I put a little graffiti on the beach marker and we all wrote notes in the sand for her. I took a picture of all of them and got a really nice shot of the beach looking out towards the ocean with a huge thunderhead in the background. The kids made them a wedding cake in the sand and we all took a group picture behind it. She was definitely heavy on all our minds. And heavy in our prayers.
I hope and pray to be posting some positive news soon. Thank you again for all your thoughts and prayers.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
I need your help!
I know I haven't blogged in a while. Our family has been hit with some very hard news and it's being rather hard to deal with. Last Wednesday my sister Karen had 2 lumps removed from her neck and shoulder. An ENT removed them cause I guess the referring doctor had no clue what they were getting into. From my already bummed out tone you probably know where this is going. Up until yesterday the doctors assumed and were actually pretty sure it was cancer, just didn't know where or what kind. The lumps she had removed were lymph nodes. She has several others that have popped up, but the ENT didn't remove them cause they were "out of his area". When she went to the ENT yesterday to get her stitches removed they had the pathology report back and it confirmed that she had cancer. She's currently at the oncologist in Abilene with Mark (her finance that she's marrying next Friday on the beach) and my parents. Jim called Dad (not knowing that he was with Karen) about work stuff and Dad told him where they all were and what was going on. So Jim called me....
I don't know the specifics cause Dad wasn't able to tell Jim yet. But all he was able to tell Jim was that it's incurable. It is treatable and can be lived with. When the doctor was asked that horrible phrase that up until now only other people I know have had to ask..."how long?" She said "we start with today..." I wasn't there and haven't talked to the people that are there...so I don't know what that means. All I know is that it means what I (and all that love her) don't want it to mean. I know that I should be mad. Mad that doctors for not realizing that when she went in on Good Friday that they should have taken this more seriously and gotten her to a specialist right away instead of waiting a month to get her into the ENT and then how long it's taken them to get it out and tested. ...but I'm not mad. Not right now anyway. I can't deal with more than one emotion right now and that one is pure sadness and aching over what my sisters about to endure. I've only heard about this happening to someone else's family. Yes, my Mom had breast cancer when I was a senior, but it was curable and she kicked it's ass. I still want to have hope...and I've had hope and will be more hopeful once all this sinks in. I'm still processing it all. Karen is one tough chic! If there is anyone I know that can kick cancer's ass it's her.
There will be tons more doctors who will tell us good and bad news in the next few weeks I'm sure. But for now, this is what we know. I know all of my family has her in their hearts and prayers. And I am asking now that if you are so willing, please add Karen to you prayers. We need God to wrap her so tight in his healing arms right now. We just aren't ready to lose her yet. We can't lose her yet! We just can't....
Thank you
**UPDATE**
Still don't know the exact location. From what the dr. told them it can be very difficult to locate the origin of this type cancer. We do know the name of the cancer: metastatic adenocarcinoma. She'll have a bone scan today. Then she and Mark are headed to the beach for 2 weeks. We are also headed down there today (for 9 days). So if any of you respond - thank you in advance. I will respond once we get back. Hopefully at that time I will have a clearer head. And thanks in advance for any and all prayers said in my sisters name!
**Update #2**
Just got a call from my Dad and Karen will be starting chemo on Monday. They have found cancer in liver, ovaries, and 2 spots on the brain. The dr's concern now with putting of the chemo until they came back from vacation is that the spots in the brain could cause a stroke and... So, she'll do chemo on Monday and this should shrink these cancer locations and they should "flake off" and not come back again. They are thinking that the main source "may" be in the ovary area. The wedding is NOT off. Instead of them going to the beach today, they'll go on Wed. and then go back for more chemo when they get back from vacation. That's what I know...thanks for any of you that are keeping up with this...
I don't know the specifics cause Dad wasn't able to tell Jim yet. But all he was able to tell Jim was that it's incurable. It is treatable and can be lived with. When the doctor was asked that horrible phrase that up until now only other people I know have had to ask..."how long?" She said "we start with today..." I wasn't there and haven't talked to the people that are there...so I don't know what that means. All I know is that it means what I (and all that love her) don't want it to mean. I know that I should be mad. Mad that doctors for not realizing that when she went in on Good Friday that they should have taken this more seriously and gotten her to a specialist right away instead of waiting a month to get her into the ENT and then how long it's taken them to get it out and tested. ...but I'm not mad. Not right now anyway. I can't deal with more than one emotion right now and that one is pure sadness and aching over what my sisters about to endure. I've only heard about this happening to someone else's family. Yes, my Mom had breast cancer when I was a senior, but it was curable and she kicked it's ass. I still want to have hope...and I've had hope and will be more hopeful once all this sinks in. I'm still processing it all. Karen is one tough chic! If there is anyone I know that can kick cancer's ass it's her.
There will be tons more doctors who will tell us good and bad news in the next few weeks I'm sure. But for now, this is what we know. I know all of my family has her in their hearts and prayers. And I am asking now that if you are so willing, please add Karen to you prayers. We need God to wrap her so tight in his healing arms right now. We just aren't ready to lose her yet. We can't lose her yet! We just can't....
Thank you
**UPDATE**
Still don't know the exact location. From what the dr. told them it can be very difficult to locate the origin of this type cancer. We do know the name of the cancer: metastatic adenocarcinoma. She'll have a bone scan today. Then she and Mark are headed to the beach for 2 weeks. We are also headed down there today (for 9 days). So if any of you respond - thank you in advance. I will respond once we get back. Hopefully at that time I will have a clearer head. And thanks in advance for any and all prayers said in my sisters name!
**Update #2**
Just got a call from my Dad and Karen will be starting chemo on Monday. They have found cancer in liver, ovaries, and 2 spots on the brain. The dr's concern now with putting of the chemo until they came back from vacation is that the spots in the brain could cause a stroke and... So, she'll do chemo on Monday and this should shrink these cancer locations and they should "flake off" and not come back again. They are thinking that the main source "may" be in the ovary area. The wedding is NOT off. Instead of them going to the beach today, they'll go on Wed. and then go back for more chemo when they get back from vacation. That's what I know...thanks for any of you that are keeping up with this...
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