Well, they found out that Jay had two infections (one in his blood and the other in his colon) Both are being taken care of and when we went to visit tonight he had no temperature!!!!!! His breathing is great, and his heart rate is just a little high, but within normal range for someone as young as he is. His feet and hands are swollen, but this is to be expected due to all the fluids they are giving him....they decided that there is no need for an EEG (to test if his brain waves are normal or not) and there was no need for a bronchial scope to check his lungs (they thought that they saw some liquid in his lungs...but the pulminary Dr.'s said it looked normal) they have also completely taken him off the blood pressure medicine and that is very good news...they also have stepped down his pain meds so he might be a little more responsive...but he really was not tonight for Sheila and me.
They are taking things very slowly, but he is in much better shape than when they put him in the ICU on Saturday!!!!
They still can not tell us when he will be taken off the respirator...and we are praying for his Stem Cell Transplant to still work OK. We also remember how bad he was in corporation with anyone the last time he came out of ICU. he was saying lots of not nice things, but still doing OK. He sure made his nurses frustrated, heh.
Well, that is about all....he is stabilizing very good through all of this...and I believe it is because of your thoughts and prayers and our praying with him each night before we leave his room. I know that he would love to tell each and every one of you how much he loves and thanks you all! Tank you and please KUTPs!!!!!!!
Good night!
Monday, March 14, 2005
Sunday, March 13, 2005
The one about a little good news....
Well, Jay is still in ICU and not much has changed...but the CT scan they did this morning came back negative...so that meant there was no bleeding in his brain...and that is very good news!!!!! He is still very out of it and the best response I got from him today was this afternoon the 5:00 pm visiting time and he opened his eyes and rolled them a little bit at me, and that was about all. They have got everything under control except for his heart rate and they think that is caused by his pain...so we are waiting for his pain to get back under control.... his breathing is just fine and they could take him off the respirator....but the Dr. tonight said that his body might get too caught up in breathing and then breathing and the pain would be difficult for both processes to be taken care of....so they are just being careful and making sure everything is healing up OK before they introduce his body into the pain and breathing right now. He is peaceful laying there (even thought he looks like one of the Borg)..... The good news is he is not bleeding in his brain and that they took out his central line from his neck and put it into his groin. After they did that it looked like his temperature went away....so that central line might have been causing an infection....but they are of course "not sure".
He is in such a critical state right now and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that your prayers and thoughts are so important right now.
needless to say....but please KUTPs!!!!!!!
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My father has come down with a sickness and so he has not gotten to see Jay at all since Jay went into ICU...so I am sure it is hard for him...but he seems to be getting very slowly better...the more rest he gets....and so because of that he has been staying at a hotel room and not been driving back to Jay and Sheila's house each night... please keep him and my Mom in your prayers as well.
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Please pray for the Murphy family. They are a wonderful family that we have gotten to know very well of the last two days in the ICU waiting room. They are such a Godly family...and a very big family too, heh. But we have had many a time of laugher and good talk with them over these last few days... They are wonderful.
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I would just like to share how much my wife means to me. She has been here supporting our entire family with sweet words of love and support and caring for each of us when sometimes it is hard for us to care for one another. She supports me more and anyone in the world and I know I would not be the man of God I am today if it were not for her love and support for me. She is the greatest gift during this hard time for me....and she is the answer to so many of yalls prayers when you side pray for me and my family. I hope she does not have to leave any time soon, because if Jay's condition changes I know that I will need her sweet hand to hold and support me with the Jesus that lives in her! Thank you girl and I love you....(I doubt you will ever read this, but I love you sooooo much!
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Yall have a good night and please in the midst of all things give praise to God the thunder speaker! Psalm 29.
KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh, here are some way over due emails from Sheila:
March 2nd:
TRANSPLANT STARTS SATURDAY!
They rushed his transplant to today, They called DG and had him go to
Albuquerque for the infectious disease markers today.
They ran more blood work on Jay today and he will get the set up marks for the
full body radiation on Friday after his standard treatment.
He will be getting high doses of cytoxin and full body radiation to kill his
existing bone marrow. He didn't not have radiation with his last transplant.
This will start Saturday and will be given over the coarse of next week.
Monday, DG will start his neupogen shots. They are shipping them to him in
Lexington, KY where he is going for a conference.
He will drive from Lexington to Pittsburgh and be here for Friday the 11th when
his stem cells will be extracted. They will freeze them and Saturday they will
inject them into Jay. He will probably be watched for a few days. He will need
to be brought into the hospital EVERY day for at least 2 weeks after that.
Jay's parents will be here Saturday and will stay as long as they need to.
His Doctor told him today this is the most aggressive cancer he has ever seen
and that is why he wants it expedited.
Tomorrow, I am taking him for a day on the town. We will go or do anything he
feels up to doing since it will be a very long time until he can do anything for
a while. Most likely it will be a window shopping trip to Best Buy.
Well, here we go.
Thanks to all of you who have kept us in your thoughts and prayers and please
continue to do so over the next several weeks.
You are all truly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sheila
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March 5th:
We checked Jay in at 9:00 this morning. He has already had his cytoxin (chemo)
and they have irrigated his bladder (he his VERY unhappy about this). He was in
significant pain earlier but they now have him on a dulatid (sp) (morphine like
drug) pump and he says it is a miracle drug. He can give himself a dose every
10 minutes plus it administers a standard dose every ½ hour. He is very happy
with the pain med.
His parents were delayed in getting here and they should be here at 1:00 am but
won't come by the hospital until tomorrow.
Jay just ate 2 cookies and drank some milk the first thing he had all day.
Well, my aero bed awaits.
Goodnight all.
He is in room 711.
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March 9th:
Everything is on course for the transplant. It should happen Saturday. DG is
here and he has started the neupogen and his bones are aching as normal.
DG will do the donation process on Friday.
Jay is doing well considering all that he has gone through. He has one more day
of radiation and the chemo is done.
He has had many interesting awake dreams. He dreamed last night that he had
the last drink left on the planet and the world was coming to an end but the
good guys were with him. He told me they made his drink using a blender that
went 800-900 RPMs. He said that he would rather have an appletini instead of
what they were giving him. (note: he doesn't even know what an appletini tastes
like because he's never had one.)
Yesterday, he told me not to get in trouble with the law by using the volcano to
break the law. He said his Dad showed him the catalog with the volcano in it.
This was really interesting since his Dad didn't even have a catalog to show him
let alone one with a volcano. I promised him that I would only use volcanos for
good and not evil.
Really not much more to add. Everything is on track.
--------------------------
March 11th:
They moved Jay's transplant up to today and he is officially transplanted. They
keep telling him Happy Birthday here at the hospital because it is as if he has
been reborn.
I was teasing him and said "you'll do anything to get 2 birthday's a year :-))
He has been in severe pain caused by the total body irradiation and now they
have him on a very high dose of a morphine like drug and he is sedated most of
the time and this is probably for the best since he is so uncomfortable.
The pain management Doctors are officially monitoring his pain needs and
approved increase in his pain pump medication today.
He talked to me some tonight and he is being very sweet but very drowsy,
DG donated his cells this morning and he had enough to give to Jay today and
enough to freeze for later if we need to them. He was a stem cell making
machine. Jay has a truly remarkable brother.
They are going to keep him for at least a few more days because the pain is too
much to control at home. Hopefully, by Monday they can start thinking of
sending him home. He will still need to see the Doctors every day but at least
he'll be able to sleep in his own bed.
Thanks everyone for your prayers and thoughts. They have gotten us this far.
Thanks,
Sheila
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As you can see a lot has gone on since her last email...and she has not been able to type one up for a few days...(since he has been in ICU) so I just wanted yall to have all of her emails....I try to give you all the one I have missed through this crazy time.
One other thing....the Dr. that we saw tonight was so sweet! He is a Internal Medican Dr. and he is doing his residency at the hospital...He is such a nice guy from India...and He told Sheila and me in Jay's ICU room tonight that he was watched a movie one day about a Dr. that was trying to treat a man in a town who had cancer and this man he was trying to treat would always make everyone smile and love on everyone....and the Dr. really wanted to help this man because he knew if he helped this man that he would really be helping so many other people because of the way that this man lived his life loving others.......well, he told us that every time he thought about Jay that he tonight about that man in that movie....and He just really like Jay....heh heh.....That one almost got me but I held it in...and now I am going to go to bed...and tell Tiffany that some story. :) It is amazing that Jay is doing ministry for God while unconscious in an ICU room....it really makes you think how much ministry have you done today while you are awake and feeling just fine?
Love yall and God bless yall! Love in Christ......KUTPs!!!!!!!!
He is in such a critical state right now and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that your prayers and thoughts are so important right now.
needless to say....but please KUTPs!!!!!!!
============================
My father has come down with a sickness and so he has not gotten to see Jay at all since Jay went into ICU...so I am sure it is hard for him...but he seems to be getting very slowly better...the more rest he gets....and so because of that he has been staying at a hotel room and not been driving back to Jay and Sheila's house each night... please keep him and my Mom in your prayers as well.
=========================
Please pray for the Murphy family. They are a wonderful family that we have gotten to know very well of the last two days in the ICU waiting room. They are such a Godly family...and a very big family too, heh. But we have had many a time of laugher and good talk with them over these last few days... They are wonderful.
========================
I would just like to share how much my wife means to me. She has been here supporting our entire family with sweet words of love and support and caring for each of us when sometimes it is hard for us to care for one another. She supports me more and anyone in the world and I know I would not be the man of God I am today if it were not for her love and support for me. She is the greatest gift during this hard time for me....and she is the answer to so many of yalls prayers when you side pray for me and my family. I hope she does not have to leave any time soon, because if Jay's condition changes I know that I will need her sweet hand to hold and support me with the Jesus that lives in her! Thank you girl and I love you....(I doubt you will ever read this, but I love you sooooo much!
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Yall have a good night and please in the midst of all things give praise to God the thunder speaker! Psalm 29.
KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!
=============
Oh, here are some way over due emails from Sheila:
March 2nd:
TRANSPLANT STARTS SATURDAY!
They rushed his transplant to today, They called DG and had him go to
Albuquerque for the infectious disease markers today.
They ran more blood work on Jay today and he will get the set up marks for the
full body radiation on Friday after his standard treatment.
He will be getting high doses of cytoxin and full body radiation to kill his
existing bone marrow. He didn't not have radiation with his last transplant.
This will start Saturday and will be given over the coarse of next week.
Monday, DG will start his neupogen shots. They are shipping them to him in
Lexington, KY where he is going for a conference.
He will drive from Lexington to Pittsburgh and be here for Friday the 11th when
his stem cells will be extracted. They will freeze them and Saturday they will
inject them into Jay. He will probably be watched for a few days. He will need
to be brought into the hospital EVERY day for at least 2 weeks after that.
Jay's parents will be here Saturday and will stay as long as they need to.
His Doctor told him today this is the most aggressive cancer he has ever seen
and that is why he wants it expedited.
Tomorrow, I am taking him for a day on the town. We will go or do anything he
feels up to doing since it will be a very long time until he can do anything for
a while. Most likely it will be a window shopping trip to Best Buy.
Well, here we go.
Thanks to all of you who have kept us in your thoughts and prayers and please
continue to do so over the next several weeks.
You are all truly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sheila
-----------------------------
March 5th:
We checked Jay in at 9:00 this morning. He has already had his cytoxin (chemo)
and they have irrigated his bladder (he his VERY unhappy about this). He was in
significant pain earlier but they now have him on a dulatid (sp) (morphine like
drug) pump and he says it is a miracle drug. He can give himself a dose every
10 minutes plus it administers a standard dose every ½ hour. He is very happy
with the pain med.
His parents were delayed in getting here and they should be here at 1:00 am but
won't come by the hospital until tomorrow.
Jay just ate 2 cookies and drank some milk the first thing he had all day.
Well, my aero bed awaits.
Goodnight all.
He is in room 711.
------------------------------
March 9th:
Everything is on course for the transplant. It should happen Saturday. DG is
here and he has started the neupogen and his bones are aching as normal.
DG will do the donation process on Friday.
Jay is doing well considering all that he has gone through. He has one more day
of radiation and the chemo is done.
He has had many interesting awake dreams. He dreamed last night that he had
the last drink left on the planet and the world was coming to an end but the
good guys were with him. He told me they made his drink using a blender that
went 800-900 RPMs. He said that he would rather have an appletini instead of
what they were giving him. (note: he doesn't even know what an appletini tastes
like because he's never had one.)
Yesterday, he told me not to get in trouble with the law by using the volcano to
break the law. He said his Dad showed him the catalog with the volcano in it.
This was really interesting since his Dad didn't even have a catalog to show him
let alone one with a volcano. I promised him that I would only use volcanos for
good and not evil.
Really not much more to add. Everything is on track.
--------------------------
March 11th:
They moved Jay's transplant up to today and he is officially transplanted. They
keep telling him Happy Birthday here at the hospital because it is as if he has
been reborn.
I was teasing him and said "you'll do anything to get 2 birthday's a year :-))
He has been in severe pain caused by the total body irradiation and now they
have him on a very high dose of a morphine like drug and he is sedated most of
the time and this is probably for the best since he is so uncomfortable.
The pain management Doctors are officially monitoring his pain needs and
approved increase in his pain pump medication today.
He talked to me some tonight and he is being very sweet but very drowsy,
DG donated his cells this morning and he had enough to give to Jay today and
enough to freeze for later if we need to them. He was a stem cell making
machine. Jay has a truly remarkable brother.
They are going to keep him for at least a few more days because the pain is too
much to control at home. Hopefully, by Monday they can start thinking of
sending him home. He will still need to see the Doctors every day but at least
he'll be able to sleep in his own bed.
Thanks everyone for your prayers and thoughts. They have gotten us this far.
Thanks,
Sheila
====================================
As you can see a lot has gone on since her last email...and she has not been able to type one up for a few days...(since he has been in ICU) so I just wanted yall to have all of her emails....I try to give you all the one I have missed through this crazy time.
One other thing....the Dr. that we saw tonight was so sweet! He is a Internal Medican Dr. and he is doing his residency at the hospital...He is such a nice guy from India...and He told Sheila and me in Jay's ICU room tonight that he was watched a movie one day about a Dr. that was trying to treat a man in a town who had cancer and this man he was trying to treat would always make everyone smile and love on everyone....and the Dr. really wanted to help this man because he knew if he helped this man that he would really be helping so many other people because of the way that this man lived his life loving others.......well, he told us that every time he thought about Jay that he tonight about that man in that movie....and He just really like Jay....heh heh.....That one almost got me but I held it in...and now I am going to go to bed...and tell Tiffany that some story. :) It is amazing that Jay is doing ministry for God while unconscious in an ICU room....it really makes you think how much ministry have you done today while you are awake and feeling just fine?
Love yall and God bless yall! Love in Christ......KUTPs!!!!!!!!
Saturday, March 12, 2005
The one about a crazy day...and Jay needing the prayers to get into high gear....
Well, if you did not listen to the audio post...Jay is now in ICU.....this was not expected and as soon as Tiffany and I got to Jay's room this morning he was as red as a lobster, and rithing in pain. It was not nice to see him like that and by the look on Sheila's face she was not being to totally handle him being in so much pain either.... Well, then Jay told Sheila he wanted to use the bathroom to pee, and Jay had gone down hill over night and he could not hold himself up enough to even walk to the bathroom....so Sheila was going to help him sit up in his bed and pee into a urinal...and then he just collapsed in her arms and Sheila could not tell if he was breathing. Tiffany and I were leaving his room to give them both privacy, and as I was closing the door to his room I heard Sheila yelling out, "call the nurse" I told an orderly to get a nurse and as soon as I could run back into Jay's room he was laying on his bed and it looked like he was having a seizure (his eyes were in the back of his head and he was totally red....but no movement) before I could get beside his bed the nurses ran in (all of them) and I left his room...and then Sheila kind of walked out into the hall with me and I hugged her....they then proceeded to call a "code blue" where they say the code blue and the room number over the entire hospital and every medical Dr. on the floor or area immediately runs to that room to help out. They immediately put a breathing tube in him and tried to stabilize him. they had to wait for several mins before a room in ICU became available...and then moved him there. We then helped Sheila pack up him room and put what we could into her car and then we went to eat lunch...because they will not let you see any ICU patient unless it is during visiting hrs.... (1:30-2:30 pm, 5:00-6:00 pm, and 9:00-10:00 pm) so we got back to the ICU waiting room at 2:30 pm and they would not let anyone in because they still had not stabilized him. They eventually got him in stable critical condition and let Sheila go back and then we went back @ 5:00 and he was hooked up to all kinds of stuff and the breathing tube(....he hates that) he was a little responsive...but not much. and then when we went in @ 9:00 pm he was bright red in his face and his hands were burning up (when they were cold earlier) and his blood pressure was WAY down.....then the Nurse came in and gave him Sodium Bicarbonate (sp?) and it was amazing!!!! His color went back to normal, his hands were cold again, and his breathing went back to s more healthy rate! It was amazing....but no one knows what exactly is going on and what it causing anything....because there are so many things going on that they don't know which on is doing it.....the one thing we do know is his white blood cell count was 2!!!! So it is almost positive that it was not the cancer, but they do know that his blood pressure is way out of wack.
Tiffany and Sheila and I are back here @ their house because they will not even let us see him in ICU until 1:30 pm...so hopefully it will be good for Sheila to be back home and attempt to get some fake rest in her own bed. She kept on saying that what happened today was the scariest thing that Jay has ever done and it really got to all of us! So now more than ever and I do mean it very much so.....Jay needs your prayers. The Dr. actually told me that Jay's body has got to heal and it really is in God's hands now for that to happen......so as I type this with tears running down my face......please pray for Jay..Thank you and love you all!
Tiffany and Sheila and I are back here @ their house because they will not even let us see him in ICU until 1:30 pm...so hopefully it will be good for Sheila to be back home and attempt to get some fake rest in her own bed. She kept on saying that what happened today was the scariest thing that Jay has ever done and it really got to all of us! So now more than ever and I do mean it very much so.....Jay needs your prayers. The Dr. actually told me that Jay's body has got to heal and it really is in God's hands now for that to happen......so as I type this with tears running down my face......please pray for Jay..Thank you and love you all!
Friday, March 11, 2005
The one about Jay getting my stem cells and Sheila's computer not working....
Well, I am typing this from Sheila's laptop here in Jay's room as he sleeps in a drug induced dream state. heh heh.... he sure is funny when he takes this much Adavan....but it also helps his pain a little and that is what is important for now....
This morning I went in a did my harvesting of my stem cells and it took about 3.5 hrs hooked up to the machine with one BIG needle in my left arm and a smaller one in my right hand. The machine would take my blood separate it out in to red, white, and plasma....and then pump it back into me. IT was a weird feeling because every now and then my teeth or butt would tingle, but other than that it was OK. Then I was a little tired and came back up to Jay's room. and around 2:45 pm EST they brought in my Stem cells to give to Jay.....Oh BTW....did I mention that they need 3,000 Stem cells for the procedure to come close to working and I gave them 11,000!!!!!!!! They put 6,000 in him right now and froze 5,000 to maybe give him at a later day if he needed them. Oh yeah....my stem cells must be like my hair and I got plenty of them both!!! heh.....
Well, Jay has taken them very good so far, but now it is a waiting game to see if they are working on killing off the cancer. That is where all the prayer needs to be directed for now. Apparently, for this procedure they did not kill off ALL the cancer cells with the radiation, in the hopes that the difference between us genetically will have my stem cells killing off his cancer cells and leaving everything else alone......
They have not given us a time frame as to when they will know for the radiation/chemo and transplant was successful, so now comes the time that we are patiently waiting and Jay does some painful suffering before he can get better. He is in a lot of pain right now...and has been ever since the last round of radiation from yesterday morning. The Dr. came by and assumed that the pain was acid reflux from the radiation.....but Jay told him it was primarily on his sides, and when he took deep breaths. It seems to really hurt him when he does a painful hick-up thing or when he moves from side to side....but the Dr. said that it is probably caused by inflammation of the linings of his lungs and possibly his heart from the radiation.....The Dr. told him that these next few days will be hard ones and smiled.... The head Dr. is really great and very sweet to all of us.....
Well, I don't know when they will let Jay go home to heal and drive back and forth each day...but maybe that will be soon and Jay can sleep in his own home and bed! But he did not do the usual and fight to go home, because his pain is so bad he knew that he wanted to stay here until they got it under control.
PLEASE KUTPs!!!!!!!!!
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I tried for 3 hrs last night to get the internet @ the hotel working with no luck, and so I had to wait until now to update via type and not only the phone updates. Thanks for your patience and I hope the audio blogs are not too bad.
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Sheila and Tiffany are having lots of jokes about how Jay is going to slowly become me now that he has my stem cells, heh and usually it is all bad things that Jay has done that they have blamed on me so far....so I better get used to them...I have a feeling this will be going on for a long time......(I sure would not mind it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Well, for now, I think when Tiffany and Sheila gets back form dinner that we will play one more Skip-Bo game and we will go back to the hotel for my dad to get some sleep. I hate that Tiffany is leaving tomorrow, but I know it is for the best....I am just going to really miss her......she is the foundation for me as I am ministering here. Well.... her and God of course, heh.....
We have been ministering to anyone God sends our way. We prayed with the stem cells and the nurse and the technition right after we finished the harvesting and all the people we meet in the waiting room, and even one girl who was waiting for a job interview on the floor my brother is on, heh.
We are all very tired, but doing just fine and I can not tell yall how much we love and wish we could hug each and every one of you! Please keep up the prayers and know that God is with you right now....just like He is with us!
This morning I went in a did my harvesting of my stem cells and it took about 3.5 hrs hooked up to the machine with one BIG needle in my left arm and a smaller one in my right hand. The machine would take my blood separate it out in to red, white, and plasma....and then pump it back into me. IT was a weird feeling because every now and then my teeth or butt would tingle, but other than that it was OK. Then I was a little tired and came back up to Jay's room. and around 2:45 pm EST they brought in my Stem cells to give to Jay.....Oh BTW....did I mention that they need 3,000 Stem cells for the procedure to come close to working and I gave them 11,000!!!!!!!! They put 6,000 in him right now and froze 5,000 to maybe give him at a later day if he needed them. Oh yeah....my stem cells must be like my hair and I got plenty of them both!!! heh.....
Well, Jay has taken them very good so far, but now it is a waiting game to see if they are working on killing off the cancer. That is where all the prayer needs to be directed for now. Apparently, for this procedure they did not kill off ALL the cancer cells with the radiation, in the hopes that the difference between us genetically will have my stem cells killing off his cancer cells and leaving everything else alone......
They have not given us a time frame as to when they will know for the radiation/chemo and transplant was successful, so now comes the time that we are patiently waiting and Jay does some painful suffering before he can get better. He is in a lot of pain right now...and has been ever since the last round of radiation from yesterday morning. The Dr. came by and assumed that the pain was acid reflux from the radiation.....but Jay told him it was primarily on his sides, and when he took deep breaths. It seems to really hurt him when he does a painful hick-up thing or when he moves from side to side....but the Dr. said that it is probably caused by inflammation of the linings of his lungs and possibly his heart from the radiation.....The Dr. told him that these next few days will be hard ones and smiled.... The head Dr. is really great and very sweet to all of us.....
Well, I don't know when they will let Jay go home to heal and drive back and forth each day...but maybe that will be soon and Jay can sleep in his own home and bed! But he did not do the usual and fight to go home, because his pain is so bad he knew that he wanted to stay here until they got it under control.
PLEASE KUTPs!!!!!!!!!
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I tried for 3 hrs last night to get the internet @ the hotel working with no luck, and so I had to wait until now to update via type and not only the phone updates. Thanks for your patience and I hope the audio blogs are not too bad.
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Sheila and Tiffany are having lots of jokes about how Jay is going to slowly become me now that he has my stem cells, heh and usually it is all bad things that Jay has done that they have blamed on me so far....so I better get used to them...I have a feeling this will be going on for a long time......(I sure would not mind it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Well, for now, I think when Tiffany and Sheila gets back form dinner that we will play one more Skip-Bo game and we will go back to the hotel for my dad to get some sleep. I hate that Tiffany is leaving tomorrow, but I know it is for the best....I am just going to really miss her......she is the foundation for me as I am ministering here. Well.... her and God of course, heh.....
We have been ministering to anyone God sends our way. We prayed with the stem cells and the nurse and the technition right after we finished the harvesting and all the people we meet in the waiting room, and even one girl who was waiting for a job interview on the floor my brother is on, heh.
We are all very tired, but doing just fine and I can not tell yall how much we love and wish we could hug each and every one of you! Please keep up the prayers and know that God is with you right now....just like He is with us!
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
The one about the transplant is a go.....and my next two weeks are crazy.
Jay's new updates:
March 1st, '05:
Jay's transplant has been approved by the insurance!!!!!
We are now waiting for a few things. Jay had blood work done Mon. to look for infectious disease markers so they know what he is susceptible to. He will also have to have a pulmonary test and a muga scan (heart function) before he can proceed.
DG called this afternoon and said that have to have him come to Pittsburgh in order to get the blood work done here because they don't trust other labs because they don't deal with transplants.
DG and Tiffany will be here on the 8th and 9th. DG will have to return to Sante Fe because they don't know when the transplant will happen. He will need to come back up for it. Originally they were going to ship a kit to his Doctor in Santa Fe but decided against it. DG will be in Lexington KY the week he has to come here and he is going to drive up and back.
Jay is in terrible pain from his shoulder again and the Dr. just called to triple his pain medication. He really doesn't want to be admitted but if the increased medication doesn't do the trick I will be taking him in tonight. He is set to be in short stay tomorrow for radiation and another lumbar puncture. We cancelled the radiation appointment this morning since he had been up all night, was in so much pain and the weather was bad. The tech said that skipping one day was not an issue.
I also got a call this afternoon from my Doctor's office telling me that my infusion next week has been cancelled since the medication has been pulled form the market because someone died who had been on the medication long term. I have to go back on the once a week injection. This was not happy news for me.
That's all for now.
Thanks,
Sheila
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MARCH 2ND 2005!!!!:
TRANSPLANT STARTS SATURDAY!
They rushed his transplant to today, They called DG and had him go to Albquerque for the infectious disease markers today.
They ran more blood work on Jay today and he will get the set up marks for the full body radiation on Friday after his standard treatment.
He will be getting high doses of cytoxin and full body radiation to kill his existing bone marrow. He didn't not have radiation with his last transplant.
This will start Saturday and will be given over the coarse of next week. Monday, DG will start his neupogen shots. They are shipping them to him in Lexington, KY where he is going for a conference.
He will drive from Lexington to Pittsburgh and be here for Friday the 11th when his stem cells will be extracted. They will freeze them and Saturday they will inject them into Jay. He will probably be watched for a few days. He will need to be brought into the hospital EVERY day for at least 2 weeks after that.
Jay's parents will be here Saturday and will stay as long as they need to.
His Doctor told him today this is the most aggressive cancer he has ever seen and that is why he wants it expedited.
Tomorrow, I am taking him for a day on the town. We will go or do anything he feels up to doing since it will be a very long time until he can do anything for a while. Most likely it will be a window shopping trip to Best Buy.
Well, here we go.
Thanks to all of you who have kept us in your thoughts and prayers and please continue to do so over the next several weeks.
You are all truly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sheila
=========================================
Tiffany and I are traveling Thursday evening to her parent's house. (drop off the Dog and Cat) and then we drive to Sacramento Camp to do the Jr. High camp over the weekend...Then we leave Sunday morning and drive to El Paso (closest airport) fly to KY for Methodist conference stuff, have two meetings on Monday and Tuesday, then drive to Pittsburgh (9 hr. drive). once in Pitt then I continue to take shots in my stomach (all part of the bone marrow transplant stuff...I take 1-2 shots in my stomach each day for 5 days and then they harvest my stem cells out of my blood stream until they have enough...then they freeze my stem cells, and give them to Jay during the transplant.) So While I am at these meetings in KY I am taking shots and then Tiffany and I drive the rental car up to Pitt, and they keep an eye on me and Jay....then Tiffany has to leave on Thursday to drive back to KY and fly back to El Paso on Friday, then drive back to Lovington to get the dog and cat, then drive back to Santa Fe....and then she waits for me until I get back....all the while I will be gone during Holy Week, the Holiest part of the Christian Calendar, and the Sr. Pastor is doing everything...and I feel bad about that, but I will do ANYTHING for my brother and anything it takes I will do. So, I will probably wait around until we know that the transplant worked ad the fly back to Albuquerque...with money that God will have to provide, heh. (I am sure He will and all things will be just fine.....
So needless to say my next few weeks are going to be CRAZY! But, I beg each of you to please keep your prayers focused on Jay please.....
=====================================
so....most of my blog posts will be from my cell over the next couple of days, and I am not sure if I will even have cell coverage @ the camp...so be patient, and thank you all so much for your prayers and I can not tell you how much I love and appreciate you and your thoughts and prayers!
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"Darwin award winner runner-up"
============================
Much love....peace.....
KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 1st, '05:
Jay's transplant has been approved by the insurance!!!!!
We are now waiting for a few things. Jay had blood work done Mon. to look for infectious disease markers so they know what he is susceptible to. He will also have to have a pulmonary test and a muga scan (heart function) before he can proceed.
DG called this afternoon and said that have to have him come to Pittsburgh in order to get the blood work done here because they don't trust other labs because they don't deal with transplants.
DG and Tiffany will be here on the 8th and 9th. DG will have to return to Sante Fe because they don't know when the transplant will happen. He will need to come back up for it. Originally they were going to ship a kit to his Doctor in Santa Fe but decided against it. DG will be in Lexington KY the week he has to come here and he is going to drive up and back.
Jay is in terrible pain from his shoulder again and the Dr. just called to triple his pain medication. He really doesn't want to be admitted but if the increased medication doesn't do the trick I will be taking him in tonight. He is set to be in short stay tomorrow for radiation and another lumbar puncture. We cancelled the radiation appointment this morning since he had been up all night, was in so much pain and the weather was bad. The tech said that skipping one day was not an issue.
I also got a call this afternoon from my Doctor's office telling me that my infusion next week has been cancelled since the medication has been pulled form the market because someone died who had been on the medication long term. I have to go back on the once a week injection. This was not happy news for me.
That's all for now.
Thanks,
Sheila
-------------------------------------
MARCH 2ND 2005!!!!:
TRANSPLANT STARTS SATURDAY!
They rushed his transplant to today, They called DG and had him go to Albquerque for the infectious disease markers today.
They ran more blood work on Jay today and he will get the set up marks for the full body radiation on Friday after his standard treatment.
He will be getting high doses of cytoxin and full body radiation to kill his existing bone marrow. He didn't not have radiation with his last transplant.
This will start Saturday and will be given over the coarse of next week. Monday, DG will start his neupogen shots. They are shipping them to him in Lexington, KY where he is going for a conference.
He will drive from Lexington to Pittsburgh and be here for Friday the 11th when his stem cells will be extracted. They will freeze them and Saturday they will inject them into Jay. He will probably be watched for a few days. He will need to be brought into the hospital EVERY day for at least 2 weeks after that.
Jay's parents will be here Saturday and will stay as long as they need to.
His Doctor told him today this is the most aggressive cancer he has ever seen and that is why he wants it expedited.
Tomorrow, I am taking him for a day on the town. We will go or do anything he feels up to doing since it will be a very long time until he can do anything for a while. Most likely it will be a window shopping trip to Best Buy.
Well, here we go.
Thanks to all of you who have kept us in your thoughts and prayers and please continue to do so over the next several weeks.
You are all truly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sheila
=========================================
Tiffany and I are traveling Thursday evening to her parent's house. (drop off the Dog and Cat) and then we drive to Sacramento Camp to do the Jr. High camp over the weekend...Then we leave Sunday morning and drive to El Paso (closest airport) fly to KY for Methodist conference stuff, have two meetings on Monday and Tuesday, then drive to Pittsburgh (9 hr. drive). once in Pitt then I continue to take shots in my stomach (all part of the bone marrow transplant stuff...I take 1-2 shots in my stomach each day for 5 days and then they harvest my stem cells out of my blood stream until they have enough...then they freeze my stem cells, and give them to Jay during the transplant.) So While I am at these meetings in KY I am taking shots and then Tiffany and I drive the rental car up to Pitt, and they keep an eye on me and Jay....then Tiffany has to leave on Thursday to drive back to KY and fly back to El Paso on Friday, then drive back to Lovington to get the dog and cat, then drive back to Santa Fe....and then she waits for me until I get back....all the while I will be gone during Holy Week, the Holiest part of the Christian Calendar, and the Sr. Pastor is doing everything...and I feel bad about that, but I will do ANYTHING for my brother and anything it takes I will do. So, I will probably wait around until we know that the transplant worked ad the fly back to Albuquerque...with money that God will have to provide, heh. (I am sure He will and all things will be just fine.....
So needless to say my next few weeks are going to be CRAZY! But, I beg each of you to please keep your prayers focused on Jay please.....
=====================================
so....most of my blog posts will be from my cell over the next couple of days, and I am not sure if I will even have cell coverage @ the camp...so be patient, and thank you all so much for your prayers and I can not tell you how much I love and appreciate you and your thoughts and prayers!
===================================
"Darwin award winner runner-up"
============================
Much love....peace.....
KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, February 27, 2005
The one with Tiffany's big adventure continued, a few Jay updates, I was published!!!, and a pic screaming for your comment....
Well, Tiffany's parents just left, and it was good seeing them. I am now about to leave to go to a Children and poverty seminar that our church is hosting, and I am sure it will be educational, and something that I might not want to talk about but something that needs to be discussed...and how we can help this horrid problem here in our country and in the world. I am extreamly tired, and we have a full week ahead of us this week and next week is just as big....but more on that later. Right now, I will just let you read Sheila's previous emails and give you something to comment about, heh.....
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Jay Updates in order withy a later personal update after them all.....
Wednesday Feb. 23rd, '05:
Jay is in the hospital for a 24 hours observation.
He started having severe pain in his shoulder (he has had some pain for a long time but never to this degree) last night. We told the Dr. in short stay today and he ordered MRIs. They think they have found something near the brachial plexus and are calling in a radiation oncology consult for tomorrow morning. The Dr. thinks the cancer maybe forming a tumor there. The neurologist came to see him this evening and feels the same way. They are going to try do the radiation tomorrow if it is warranted. He got platelets again today and some potassium.
The Dr. rounding today made me feel better about the low counts because he said that the methotrexate can seep out of the CNS and into the rest of system and effect the bone marrow especially with the amount he has been receiving. It's good to know his counts are an effect of the chemo and not the cancer. Another Doctor told us it wouldn't effect the counts but this one is the oldest Dr. in the practice and he was 100% sure that's what it is.
Last night Jay woke up at about 2:00 AM and asked me what I wanted from Mystery Taco. He also told me that he is a spy and that his partner looks like Lucy Lu. He told me I'm a spy too but I don't work in the same place as him. Today he reached out his hand to hand me something (of course there was nothing in his hand) and he told me, I want you to have this $20. There were a couple of other things he said that were hard to follow. He drifts in and out of this quasi sleep mode often.
He just said to me while laying in bed - hey, this is my commercial, and the TV is not on. He does love that Dr. Pepper commercial with the catchy jingle where the people in the back ground start whistling. When he gets grumpy I bring the commercial and it puts him in a good mood so at least he was hallucinating happy thoughts about Dr. Pepper.
There is no further word on the transplant yet.
Take care everyone.
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Thursday Feb. 24th, '05
Jay had is first radiation treatment today. All went well.
On the way home, while sitting at a red light in Wilkinsburg, we got rear ended. A lady hit one car that then hit another, that then hit another, that hit us.
Lucky for us, there was no damage but the guy behind us messed up his car and called the police so we had to wait for them to show up. When I got home we had about 4 inches of snow on the driveway (well at least it looked like 4 inches)
Jay didn't do much hallucinating today.
No further word on the transplant.
Good night everyone,
Sheila
======================
DG's Update on Jay:
Well, I talked to Sheila Saturday and Jay had a headache, but it was good Sheila told me, because she thought the reason his head hurt so bad was 1) there was a cold front moving through and Sheila had a head ache too (BTW: I think I had one too from when it came through here a few days ago) but Sheila seemed to think that Jay mainly had a head ache because he stayed up until 1:00 a.m. Friday night/Sat. morning playing games with his friends!!!!! I was so glad to hear that he felt good enough to do that, but I also know my brother is good at over doing it in the guise of......"I might as well live it up"! So needless to say we were all happy that he felt good enough to do that, and were sorry that his head hurt, but happy that he had a good time the night before. Sheila said that they are waiting now for the insurance company to approve the hone marrow transplant and then I will get the call, heh. She said that they would love to do the transplant right now, but if they did and the insurance did not approve it the way it is submitted from the Dr. the Sheila and ay are stuck with a VERY large hospital procedure! .....we all wait. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and please know Jay, Sheila, Mom, Dad, Aunt, brother, sister-in-laws, etc....all appreciate your love and prayers for Jay!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tiffany's big adventure continued.......
So after we called our family PA (not Dr. actually) and they told us they could not get Tiffany into the office until the afternoon of the next day...we decided to call on our the nurses from my church to ask what she thought and if we would need to go to the emergency room. After tiffany talked to her for a short time it was the nurses opinion that we head out to the ER. off we went....now I have been to the ER before (actually many times...being a Pastor) and I knew that we would need to bring a book...so I we both grabbed our books and drove straight there. Tiffany went in and I let her off at the door so she could go check-in and then I could park. When I go into the waiting room there was Tiffany with her sweet smile face hiding the horrible pain beneath that I know she had. I sat beside her holding her while I started watching all the people around us.....the room was filled primarily with babies and children that were sick or hurting, and it looked like they had been there for quite some time....several hours we found out later....well, after 3 hours of waiting Tiffany's name was called and we went into a small prep room for questions and then they put us into another waiting room (a different room but packed with people this time) and we waited....then they called our name and we thought to our selves....finally here we go to see the Dr........nope......they took us to the insurance person to make sure we could pay for what ever we were getting done....(I am very scared about what kind of bill we are going to get with this one) then back out the the second waiting room. Well, by this time I had to leave to go to the church to go to a meeting that we had.....now normally I would have skipped the meeting, but this was the first meeting that we had had since the resignation of the chair, and I was the chair...so I thought it would be short and sweet and then I could get out of there and back to Tiffany.....besides Tiffany had her cell and could get a hold of me anytime she needed too.....(I still felt bad, but I went) Well, the meeting lasted an hour and I ran back to the ER...to find out that Tiffany had gotten back to an ER room, but they had taken her to get a Ultrasound, and so I sat once again and waited this time by myself waiting for my wife....They wheeled her back in and by this time they had put a car accident person (not too bad) in a bed out in the hall (yes they were so swamped that people were in the hall being treated) well, they came back and the Dr. decided to do another exam this time making sure Tiffany did not have something wrong with a pregnancy (we had be AI ( Artificially Inseminated two weeks before) (They found out that she was not pregnant :( ........) But even after al that and another Dr. coming in to see her they decided that there was nothing to really do and discharged her only to tell her to come back the next day and make sure the blood work was OK.
Yeah that is right I said, "the next day"..... So the next day we both went back to the same ER....waited, and waited, and waited, and then we waited....up until the point that they finally had us wait some more! It was OK this time, because this time we got to see a lot more cool injuries, like a chief who cut his wrist from Maria's (which we liked so much we went to eat there after this visit, heh heh) and all kinds of stuff, but the same basic stuff happened...and all the time we tried to tell them to find the same Dr. we had last night and tell her we were back and all we needed to do was do the urine sample and the blood test and be on our way (Tiffany's pain that day had gone down from a 9 to a 3) but they would not listen and just told us that we had to wait again and again and again.... Well, they finally got her in a bed that was in the hall and asked her to pee in a cup and give it back to them. Tiffany was so worried about a blood sample, because her veins are so small that it is hard for anyone to be able to draw blood from her.... and luck her they decided to not make her have to do a blood test and the urine was just fine!!! So that was great news....even though we had to wait a total of 15 hours over the course of 2 days to find that info out...but the great thing was while we were waiting for the second day's urine test there was this lady in one of the ER rooms that was streaming like a wild mountain lion! I mean you would not believe how this young lady was screaming....all the nurses and Dr.'s would look at each other and exchange bewildered stares and slight smiles..... I mean it was crazy how this lady was screaming! Then I noticed that one of the nurses said that she got out.....and we all knew that that meant this wild lady was on the loose....well out of no where a male nurse tackled this woman and three others grabbed her and as three people led her back to the room she was in one of the nurses grabbed her hair and the lady screaming, "Pull my hair harder, pull it!!!!"....."OK", I said to Tiffany..."Looks like someone needs to approve a sedative!"
We decided right then that going to the ER was way better than any movie date night, heh. (probably will cost a lot more, but still better) heh heh
=================================
amazing news!!!!!!
I was reading one of my favorite magazines on Saturday and then I read a wonderful letter to the editor!!! As I was reading the letter I thought to myself..."Wow I think I have read this before"....and ten I read who wrote it....heh I could not believe it, but they published my article!!!! I have had my name in this magazine before with small quotes here and there, but this time it was smack dab in the front and my entire letter was there! bad grammer and all...heh..... So I thought I would let yall know about this and then show it off to your friends/family that you know that guy who wrote that letter, he, the magazine is in the book stands right now and thought I would let you support the magazine and buying it and framing it, he...so maybe not that crazy about it, but still fun......just in case if you don't want to go find it on the news stands or Borders/Barnes and Nobles...then you can read it here:
DVD Etc. The issue is Jan/Feb 2005 Vol.4 #1 and the scripture on the spine is John 8:12....yep you heard me right scripture...the Editor is a Christian and is not ashamed to say it and tell his readers that all the time....the crazy thing is I found out that he actually started out in the magazine industry with my favorite magazine for the Turbo Grafx 16 Video Game system.... oh man I loved that system, and still love it today...If I could just fine one, heh....especially if it had the CD attachment and the greatest RPG game called" Y's Book I and II"...the first home video game RPG on a CD with actually cartoon graphics on the disc! I even dreamed about this game with I was a kid, heh. Ok back on track my letter to the editor is on page 17, and my name is Grady Hollums) still amazing, and I talked about The Passion Of The Christ is anyone cares.... have a fun read...but you better hurry to read it I am sure the magazine will be taken off the shelves soon for the next month's issue.
==============================
"As Pepe swallowed he wished he could remember the universal sign for choking"
==========================
See through toaster
and
a creative Idea of the new Xbox coming out this year!
============================
Ok Well I need to get some rest...so love yall, take care, and please leave your funny comments for the new picture......KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
===============
Jay Updates in order withy a later personal update after them all.....
Wednesday Feb. 23rd, '05:
Jay is in the hospital for a 24 hours observation.
He started having severe pain in his shoulder (he has had some pain for a long time but never to this degree) last night. We told the Dr. in short stay today and he ordered MRIs. They think they have found something near the brachial plexus and are calling in a radiation oncology consult for tomorrow morning. The Dr. thinks the cancer maybe forming a tumor there. The neurologist came to see him this evening and feels the same way. They are going to try do the radiation tomorrow if it is warranted. He got platelets again today and some potassium.
The Dr. rounding today made me feel better about the low counts because he said that the methotrexate can seep out of the CNS and into the rest of system and effect the bone marrow especially with the amount he has been receiving. It's good to know his counts are an effect of the chemo and not the cancer. Another Doctor told us it wouldn't effect the counts but this one is the oldest Dr. in the practice and he was 100% sure that's what it is.
Last night Jay woke up at about 2:00 AM and asked me what I wanted from Mystery Taco. He also told me that he is a spy and that his partner looks like Lucy Lu. He told me I'm a spy too but I don't work in the same place as him. Today he reached out his hand to hand me something (of course there was nothing in his hand) and he told me, I want you to have this $20. There were a couple of other things he said that were hard to follow. He drifts in and out of this quasi sleep mode often.
He just said to me while laying in bed - hey, this is my commercial, and the TV is not on. He does love that Dr. Pepper commercial with the catchy jingle where the people in the back ground start whistling. When he gets grumpy I bring the commercial and it puts him in a good mood so at least he was hallucinating happy thoughts about Dr. Pepper.
There is no further word on the transplant yet.
Take care everyone.
-----------------------------------
Thursday Feb. 24th, '05
Jay had is first radiation treatment today. All went well.
On the way home, while sitting at a red light in Wilkinsburg, we got rear ended. A lady hit one car that then hit another, that then hit another, that hit us.
Lucky for us, there was no damage but the guy behind us messed up his car and called the police so we had to wait for them to show up. When I got home we had about 4 inches of snow on the driveway (well at least it looked like 4 inches)
Jay didn't do much hallucinating today.
No further word on the transplant.
Good night everyone,
Sheila
======================
DG's Update on Jay:
Well, I talked to Sheila Saturday and Jay had a headache, but it was good Sheila told me, because she thought the reason his head hurt so bad was 1) there was a cold front moving through and Sheila had a head ache too (BTW: I think I had one too from when it came through here a few days ago) but Sheila seemed to think that Jay mainly had a head ache because he stayed up until 1:00 a.m. Friday night/Sat. morning playing games with his friends!!!!! I was so glad to hear that he felt good enough to do that, but I also know my brother is good at over doing it in the guise of......"I might as well live it up"! So needless to say we were all happy that he felt good enough to do that, and were sorry that his head hurt, but happy that he had a good time the night before. Sheila said that they are waiting now for the insurance company to approve the hone marrow transplant and then I will get the call, heh. She said that they would love to do the transplant right now, but if they did and the insurance did not approve it the way it is submitted from the Dr. the Sheila and ay are stuck with a VERY large hospital procedure! .....we all wait. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and please know Jay, Sheila, Mom, Dad, Aunt, brother, sister-in-laws, etc....all appreciate your love and prayers for Jay!!!!!!!!!!!!
=============================
Tiffany's big adventure continued.......
So after we called our family PA (not Dr. actually) and they told us they could not get Tiffany into the office until the afternoon of the next day...we decided to call on our the nurses from my church to ask what she thought and if we would need to go to the emergency room. After tiffany talked to her for a short time it was the nurses opinion that we head out to the ER. off we went....now I have been to the ER before (actually many times...being a Pastor) and I knew that we would need to bring a book...so I we both grabbed our books and drove straight there. Tiffany went in and I let her off at the door so she could go check-in and then I could park. When I go into the waiting room there was Tiffany with her sweet smile face hiding the horrible pain beneath that I know she had. I sat beside her holding her while I started watching all the people around us.....the room was filled primarily with babies and children that were sick or hurting, and it looked like they had been there for quite some time....several hours we found out later....well, after 3 hours of waiting Tiffany's name was called and we went into a small prep room for questions and then they put us into another waiting room (a different room but packed with people this time) and we waited....then they called our name and we thought to our selves....finally here we go to see the Dr........nope......they took us to the insurance person to make sure we could pay for what ever we were getting done....(I am very scared about what kind of bill we are going to get with this one) then back out the the second waiting room. Well, by this time I had to leave to go to the church to go to a meeting that we had.....now normally I would have skipped the meeting, but this was the first meeting that we had had since the resignation of the chair, and I was the chair...so I thought it would be short and sweet and then I could get out of there and back to Tiffany.....besides Tiffany had her cell and could get a hold of me anytime she needed too.....(I still felt bad, but I went) Well, the meeting lasted an hour and I ran back to the ER...to find out that Tiffany had gotten back to an ER room, but they had taken her to get a Ultrasound, and so I sat once again and waited this time by myself waiting for my wife....They wheeled her back in and by this time they had put a car accident person (not too bad) in a bed out in the hall (yes they were so swamped that people were in the hall being treated) well, they came back and the Dr. decided to do another exam this time making sure Tiffany did not have something wrong with a pregnancy (we had be AI ( Artificially Inseminated two weeks before) (They found out that she was not pregnant :( ........) But even after al that and another Dr. coming in to see her they decided that there was nothing to really do and discharged her only to tell her to come back the next day and make sure the blood work was OK.
Yeah that is right I said, "the next day"..... So the next day we both went back to the same ER....waited, and waited, and waited, and then we waited....up until the point that they finally had us wait some more! It was OK this time, because this time we got to see a lot more cool injuries, like a chief who cut his wrist from Maria's (which we liked so much we went to eat there after this visit, heh heh) and all kinds of stuff, but the same basic stuff happened...and all the time we tried to tell them to find the same Dr. we had last night and tell her we were back and all we needed to do was do the urine sample and the blood test and be on our way (Tiffany's pain that day had gone down from a 9 to a 3) but they would not listen and just told us that we had to wait again and again and again.... Well, they finally got her in a bed that was in the hall and asked her to pee in a cup and give it back to them. Tiffany was so worried about a blood sample, because her veins are so small that it is hard for anyone to be able to draw blood from her.... and luck her they decided to not make her have to do a blood test and the urine was just fine!!! So that was great news....even though we had to wait a total of 15 hours over the course of 2 days to find that info out...but the great thing was while we were waiting for the second day's urine test there was this lady in one of the ER rooms that was streaming like a wild mountain lion! I mean you would not believe how this young lady was screaming....all the nurses and Dr.'s would look at each other and exchange bewildered stares and slight smiles..... I mean it was crazy how this lady was screaming! Then I noticed that one of the nurses said that she got out.....and we all knew that that meant this wild lady was on the loose....well out of no where a male nurse tackled this woman and three others grabbed her and as three people led her back to the room she was in one of the nurses grabbed her hair and the lady screaming, "Pull my hair harder, pull it!!!!"....."OK", I said to Tiffany..."Looks like someone needs to approve a sedative!"
We decided right then that going to the ER was way better than any movie date night, heh. (probably will cost a lot more, but still better) heh heh
=================================
amazing news!!!!!!
I was reading one of my favorite magazines on Saturday and then I read a wonderful letter to the editor!!! As I was reading the letter I thought to myself..."Wow I think I have read this before"....and ten I read who wrote it....heh I could not believe it, but they published my article!!!! I have had my name in this magazine before with small quotes here and there, but this time it was smack dab in the front and my entire letter was there! bad grammer and all...heh..... So I thought I would let yall know about this and then show it off to your friends/family that you know that guy who wrote that letter, he, the magazine is in the book stands right now and thought I would let you support the magazine and buying it and framing it, he...so maybe not that crazy about it, but still fun......just in case if you don't want to go find it on the news stands or Borders/Barnes and Nobles...then you can read it here:
DVD Etc. The issue is Jan/Feb 2005 Vol.4 #1 and the scripture on the spine is John 8:12....yep you heard me right scripture...the Editor is a Christian and is not ashamed to say it and tell his readers that all the time....the crazy thing is I found out that he actually started out in the magazine industry with my favorite magazine for the Turbo Grafx 16 Video Game system.... oh man I loved that system, and still love it today...If I could just fine one, heh....especially if it had the CD attachment and the greatest RPG game called" Y's Book I and II"...the first home video game RPG on a CD with actually cartoon graphics on the disc! I even dreamed about this game with I was a kid, heh. Ok back on track my letter to the editor is on page 17, and my name is Grady Hollums) still amazing, and I talked about The Passion Of The Christ is anyone cares.... have a fun read...but you better hurry to read it I am sure the magazine will be taken off the shelves soon for the next month's issue.
==============================
"As Pepe swallowed he wished he could remember the universal sign for choking"
==========================
See through toaster
and
a creative Idea of the new Xbox coming out this year!
============================
Ok Well I need to get some rest...so love yall, take care, and please leave your funny comments for the new picture......KUTPs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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