Words Heard

...When Opposites Attract...

"I think something is eating the lettuce."

"Beans, Dale...they're beans."

Words heard

when my husband enters the kitchen.


"The directions say to turn

the oven on the

800 degrees."


Nice!

Blessed in the Storm

Mary and I are home from a long and convoluted vacation with my parents.

Oh my did we ever create some memories...fun times...silly stories...new experiences...and enough site seeing to last a life time!

And just as quickly as we settled the dust and took a breath from our crazy summer, we are once again faced with a new twist and turn that a journey in life presents.

Dale will be seen at the cath lab at Tampa General Hospital tomorrow morning at 8 for an invasive test that will look at his ventricular septal defect. I'm not into "heart talk" yet...but basically the test involve a catheter that will run from his femoral artery to his heart and will have an "inside look" at the hole in Dale's heart. It will also determine the amount of blood that is moving in the wrong direction and evaluate the two valves that seem to be faltering because of this incorrect blood flow.

And, as an extra special 50th belated-birthday present, the sweet doctor will also check the status of Dale's arteries!

The first cardiologist that Dale saw this summer indicated that since this hole didn't close on it's own during childhood, and since there are some signs of high pressure in Dale's right ventricle and pulmonary artery, surgery will be needed.

Results from tomorrows testing are expected to support that doctors opinion.


Long story short,
we still feel blessed...

and we'll praise Him
in this storm.

Happy Father's Day

"Our fathers toil with hands and heart
To make our lives complete.
They quietly brave the winter cold,
Endure the summer heat."

The Summer of My Insanity

Short, sweet, and to the point.

1. Dale has an appointment with a cardiologist on June 19th to check the status of his newly "re-diagnosed" ventricular septal defect.

I'll be sure to attend that appointment with him, and I might ask the good doctor to check Dale's ears...since he says "what?" every time I talk to him!

2. David had a little accident in my car last week.
(I'd share pictures of my missing front end, but my computer had a little accident too.)

Does it frighten anyone else that he hopes to pay for his soon-to-be-exorbitant-car insurance by working at a little bunjee jumping kiosk at the mall?

Oh my!

3. Two bills for Steven and Dale's health issues arrived this week.

Oh my!
Exorbitance!
Again!

4. I am borrowing a nice, new car from my parents right now. I had to drive their old car one day last week...mine missing the front and all...and my dad told me, after I was already seated, belted and in gear, that the transmission was slipping.

I made it home safely by shifting into neutral above 30 m.p.h., coasting, and then shifting back into drive below 30 m.p.h.

Unfortunately that was a bit too much technology for me, and now my brain is slipping too.

5. My little girl is growing up!

Is that allowed?
Someone stop this insanity!

Plans

If you play baseball, used to play baseball, watch your brother play baseball, watched your son play baseball, or just plain and simple enjoy the game, you should be heed the advice of my men and head to Tropicana Field today.













Good times!

Unfortunately for all, dogs aren't allowed.

First Day of School

Pass

or fail?



You decide.