Good News and Hopefully Not Bad News

It seems that sometime last weekend, I must have been exposed to someone who had strep throat. Sunday evening I started with a sore throat, figuring it was nothing but another virus that's going around. Monday after returning home from work around 4pm I was really beginning to feel pretty bad. Went to bed shivering at 6:30pm. Tuesday morning at 10:30am I was in to see the Dr. He told me that I was his 5th. patient this morning with strep throat plus he had seen 3 patients with mono. All between 8am and 10:30am!
Thursday evening I still have the sore throat but not as bad. Taking the drugs prescribed, and if its not gone by Monday I guess I'll be seeing the Dr. again.

Last evening around 11:30pm the phone woke us up. It was Connie, Wilma's sister, calling with some potentially bad news. She said that she went to the Dr.'s because of a painful soar on her tongue. He suspects it may be Cancer and made the appointment with an Oral Surgeon for today at 11:30am. Wilma, after dropping the Grand kids off at school, went over to Connie's home to take her to the Dr.'s office. When she returned she said the Dr. felt that it may be Cancer and he took a biopsy to have it checked. Connie ended up with 5 stitches in her tongue. The Dr. also told her that it had been caught early if it was Cancer. So now the agony of waiting for 7 days for the biopsy report. Folks, our family is in need of your prayers.

Now for some GOOD news.
Eddie, Wilma's brother, called this evening. Wilma gave him all the news about their sister Connie. Eddie then told her that they, Eddie & his wife Beth, are planning on visiting us all here for Christmas! That really made Wilma feel sooooo happy! It will be really nice to see them all together for the Christmas holiday.

I received an email from Veronica this evening, she is married to my sister Judy's son Derek. She sent 6 more pictures of their beautiful baby girl Merissa.

Isn't she just a beautiful baby! Darn right she is! Really seems weird to me to be calling her my "Great Niece" Kinda makes me sound like an old coot!
I do know this though, my sister Judy is one proud Grandma. You can see her face just light up when she talks about her little Grand baby.

Well as you can see, we have had one very busy week. Many adventures with more to come!

Until next time, be safe and God Bless.

Dinner at Judy's

As Judy received a DVD player from us for Christmas, she invited us over for dinner and to install the DVD player.

WOW what a great Ham dinner she prepared! I almost stuffed myself it was soooo good, but I maintained and held back on a third helping!

After dinner I completed the installation of the DVD player, but it was a challenge. You know, when I was in my 20's I could hook up these electronic gizmo's with my eyes closed. Now I have really concentrate and go over everything twice. But I have to admit, I DIDN'T USE THE ENCLOSED INSTALLATION BOOKLET! You know those so called instruction books, the ones that are almost completely useless because they were written by someone who doesn't understand our language!

After a half hour I had it hooked up and working. Then came the surprise.

Look back at an earlier Blog, around the October 2007 time frame when Judy went camping with us. What I did was make a Movie using all those pictures and adding music. I used Movie Maker to produce the video. I have to say, it came out pretty darn good. And wow was she surprised!

She didn't know I had it until I told her to have a seat and watch. As you can see from the photo's of her, she was really happy with the video. Especially when I told her I was giving her the video! It brought a tear to her eyes.

It makes me feel great when I can make someone else so happy with doing so little.


Until next time, God Bless and be safe.
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