Hello! I've been a bad blogger lately due to life and the fact that I feel like I can't post without at least one picture in my entry.
I have been wanting to post about our 4th of July weekend and Father's Day. But what would these posts be like without pictures? You see, I lost both my card reader and cable to transfer pictures from my camera to my computer. I've finally decided to bite the dust and buy another card reader. I know once I do this, I will find my missing one. Oh well....
My dad is holding his own. He actually felt well enough to bake two pies the other day. He is the baker in our family and he makes the BEST pies! We are still waiting to hear from the Karmanos Cancer Center for an appointment. I am both dreading this and anxious for him to go.
We have a busy day today. My family and I are going to my parents to help with yard/house work and I need to get some laundry done today if we want clean clothes to wear. I have been doing some sorting/purging in my basement this week and have gotten behind on the rest of my work around the house. I do not think our basement has had a thorough de-junking since we moved in sixteen years ago. Oy! What a mess! Does anyone know what to do with 583 cards and can someone come over and help me sort through 1,243 pictures?:-P Tracey, if you are reading this, I need you!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
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Saturday, July 3, 2010
Life
I have been MIA for a couple of weeks now. Most of it has to do with the fact that life gets in the way and you have to prioritize. A few weeks ago my family received news that rocked our world and not in a good way.
We found out my dad has mesothelioma.
He has been ill since March and he was diagnosed with pneumonia and pleural effusion, which is fluid in the lining of the lung. I googled the term and the website that I read said that it could be a sign of lung cancer. Since my dad is in his eighties and I knew of him working around asbestos, I thought the odds were stacked against him. But you still have hope and keep telling yourself that the fact he was having difficulty getting over the pneumonia and kept getting fluid in the lung was because of his age. And with the right antibiotics and time he would get over it. He has always been healthy, especially for his age. So when an "open biopsy" was done and the results were that he had this disease, it turned our world on it's axis.
So we have been going to doctors and trying to see what we can do to get them more help for my brother. I have a physically/mentally handicapped brother still living at home so it makes things more complicated. Hopefully we can find a good home for him soon so my parents can concentrate on their own well-being. For right now, we are pulling together to help them out in any way that we can.
I am asking that you send up prayers and positive thoughts on behalf of my parents, that they will be able to handle this burden with grace and peace may be found in getting the right care for my dad and brother.
So I am closing this blog post with a poem that I found regarding cancer:
We found out my dad has mesothelioma.
He has been ill since March and he was diagnosed with pneumonia and pleural effusion, which is fluid in the lining of the lung. I googled the term and the website that I read said that it could be a sign of lung cancer. Since my dad is in his eighties and I knew of him working around asbestos, I thought the odds were stacked against him. But you still have hope and keep telling yourself that the fact he was having difficulty getting over the pneumonia and kept getting fluid in the lung was because of his age. And with the right antibiotics and time he would get over it. He has always been healthy, especially for his age. So when an "open biopsy" was done and the results were that he had this disease, it turned our world on it's axis.
So we have been going to doctors and trying to see what we can do to get them more help for my brother. I have a physically/mentally handicapped brother still living at home so it makes things more complicated. Hopefully we can find a good home for him soon so my parents can concentrate on their own well-being. For right now, we are pulling together to help them out in any way that we can.
I am asking that you send up prayers and positive thoughts on behalf of my parents, that they will be able to handle this burden with grace and peace may be found in getting the right care for my dad and brother.
So I am closing this blog post with a poem that I found regarding cancer:
What Cancer Cannot Do
Cancer is so limited...
it cannot cripple love
it cannot shatter hope
it cannot corrode faith
it cannot destroy peace
it cannot suppress memories
it cannot silence courage
it cannot invade the soul
it cannot steal eternal life
it cannot conquer the spirit
Unknown
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