Ot July Chit Chat II

[SalpalSally]

Happy 20TH Anniversary to Jeanie and David.

Praying and hoping for many more. (((Hugs)))

[Gary]

Jeanie I think that I speak for everybody....... we will never stop. You have everybody's support!!

[agate]

Happy 20th anniversary to Jeanie and David!

[Frog42]

Happy Anniversary!

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[Gary]

Happy anniversary to Jeanie and David.

Had a follow up Dr appt today after blood draw yesterday. Everything is looking good. I still have a high white count but no left shift meaning that it is not getting worse. As usual they are amazed that after being septic and having multiple organ failure that all my functions are within normal limits. He even showed me the lab from when I was admitted and today the first one literally had NOTHING that was "normal".

Thing that always scares me it the fact that you can only assault your body so much and it isn't going to pop back. Still have trouble walking and the heat doesn't help but am getting up early to do some walking everyday. The brain fog is lifting slowly, thank goodness for spell check. We did BBQ last night with a new marinate made with molasses about a million calories and an extra dose of insulin but sure was good. Tonight left overs and fresh picked corn. Plenty of extras so stop by and pull up a chair. My wife always makes enough for an army(so my daughter says) and if you leave her table hungry its your own fault.

Both our kids are up in Stanley Idaho at the diabetes camp for kids. Check it out its quite a program. Only registered and activated users can see links., Click Here To Register... they attended as campers and now they both use there vacation time to be able to volunteer every summer. My son isn't able to attend every camp as duties in the ER prevent it. It continues to be a huge problem to staff rural hospitals. We were quite proud when he decided that he wanted to do rural medicine. Daughter likes living in the country and the only stable thing in the grandkids life is our daughter and SIL. So daughter has no intention of moving away from them. This is the kid that wanted to be a DJ and live in the big city as far away from the farm as possible. Now she is super (step)mom. She takes both kids to diabetic camp with her. She does all their school supplies and clothes shopping. As far as their biological mother as concerned the kids mean a larger welfare check every month. Daughter bullied SIL this year to get his GED and start school at the local community college. Going to school and college and doing the best you can is a given. While they officially only have the kids on the weekends she gets the kids one or two evenings during the week for "study" time. There are rewards for good grades but there are consequences for bad grades as well. Yes I am bragging.

Stay cool everyone.

[Jeanie Z]

:) Hi everyone. Gary you deserve to brag.

David got home after 72 days in Virginia on 8/8.

David saw his primary care doctor on 8/9 and he ordered an EKG, blood work and a referral to the radiologist to have another chemoembolization. No date set yet but soon. The radiologist (who did the last two chemoembolizations) was going to contact the oncologist and get David on the Sorafenib chemo pill.

David had the liver team conference report from Virginia, so hoping that will speed things up. The radiologist said he has one patient he has been doing the chemoembolization on and who has been taking the Sorafenib since 2005. That is 7 years so it gave David a little bit of hope that he has maybe some years left.

The 13th was David's birthday and we went out to lunch and out to dinner. I also had some gifts of clothing for him, new shorts, tank tops and flip flops. All in all he got quite a few calls, some birthday wishes on Facebook and some cards and it was a good birthday. This was our 20th anniversary celebration too since he was not home for that.

Now they called and said they wo9uld have a conference about his case on the 22nd before they do any treatment or RX.

Please keep us in your prayers. You are all in mine. Jeanie :)