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My granddaughter Deborah is an author, her book "The Gifted" came out in published form and I bought my first one from Amazon then our friend Emmet came up from Las Vegas and he made off with my copy so what did I do? why of course what else does a grandmother does but go online and order three more copies, maybe I will be able to keep at least one of these copies. I am so proud of Deborah and her accomplishment. ps,,,all is well in this household, Del is doing just fantastic and getting back to his normal self without a stash. What a way to begin Spring. Congratulations go out to Deborah with lots of hugs and loves and kisses.

Our week in March

Just wanted to share our past week with you. Tuesday we took Del to the ER, he finally gave in and agreed to go, he had been up since 2 am with chest pains and sever stomach pains, he finally took a pain medication and slept most of Tuesday away. Anyway at ER they took him in right away and his enzymes's were elevated, his white cells were evlevated, had a slight temp, and blood pressure was way down. They admitted him to the hosptial and started running tests on him, it turned out his gallbladder was angry (gangrene) as his doctor said, that was causing the infection throughout his body, his ekg's were off a bit so they did nuke tests on him. They decided that he needed to have his gallbladder out immediatly so they did that on Thursday, in the meantime his sugars went crazy so they put him on insulin. He did not get to eat until Friday. We thought he was going to get to come home on Friday, he was happy and then the other shoe dropped. The Cardiologist was not happy with the results done on his heart so he scheduled him for the stress test on Saturday morning (the one where he lays down they pump him full of chemicals, run him through the tube, yep that is what they did. Well the doctor came back and said yes he did have a small heart attack but it was not active at this time but he said that Del will have to have follow up visits from now on so they can prevent anymore attacks. Del now has a new best friend, his Cardiologist. We fianlly got to bring him home Saturday afternoon with a boat load of meds. While he was in the hsopital we cleaned out his stash. He has a foot stool in his room that opens and in it we found See's candies, girl scout cookies, M&M's, snickers. No more stash for him, we are now using Mrs. Dash for seasoning and will be including much more fresh veggies and fruits in the diet. What a wake up call this one was. Anyway that was our week, thank goodness it is over and all turned out well.

A new Year and A new posting.

Welcome to my new site, hope you all had no problems finding me.

San Diego

I arrived in San Diego Thursday the 9th, My friend Linda picked me up at the airport at 11:30 we headed out for Coronado for lunch, it was so good, then we went and had a visit with my Dad at the Rehab center, I am so happy to report that he is doing so well, after our visit we went to the NEX so I could get some baby shower gifts for Saturday. Then we headed to the zoo, wow,,we only had one hour and the first place we headed for was the Panda Bears, since it was a bit after 4 pm they were out and active, that was so great, we saw the flamingos, and monkeys and we walked through an area that was very tropical, I want to go back when I can see it all. After the zoo we road through balboa park and then went to dinner at the fishhouse on the pier, yum yum, after that we went back to Coronado so we could see the Xmas lights and then back to Balboa to see the lights finally got to the house about 7:30pm, a long long day. Today I went to visit my mother-in-law for a bit then off to see my Dad, we talked and we walked and we sat and had coffee and a cookie together and then I was off to visit with my sister-in-law for a bit. Now I am back at the house relaxing. Tomorrow I will be going to a baby shower and will catch up with family that I have not seen in years, and I mean 10+ years so that will be fun.

I am so happy my Dad is doing so well and we are talking and he is telling me stories when he was a young sailor and places he has been.

Love you family, hug your family, enjoy your family, don't let time go by and then you say, I should have, I would have, just do it.

Think PInk

Tonight was the Carson Tahoe Hospital kick off for Cancer Awareness month, they hosted a function at Reds BBq resturant and there were so many of us in our pink tees, they had goodies to eat, drink, raffles, freebies, but the trick was you have to wear "PINK", of course my husband said he would go with us, (Marina, Marina Jr, myself and Del) three of us wore pink. It was a fun evening and great company. This is something that they do every year so I think this will become a tradition for us. All the resturants staff wore think pink too. We also had our dinner there too, wow, yum yumy ribs.