Still working on it.
I was leaning towards the FL 120 and perhaps turning it into the Panhandle 180. I even broached the idea on the FL 120 FB page. Several were interested.
I've since learned my granddaughter is graduating on May 15 right in the middle of the rendezvous. I can't miss that!
It's ok. Got to keep my priorities straight and family certainly comes first. So it's back to the drawing board.
(PS: upload directory is full - ugh.)
As Robert Burns said "oft gang aglee" and I'm getting punched in the mouth this year. My darling wife of 39 years got sick over Christmas and we ended up in the emergency room. I thought it was an appendicitis but turned out to be that vicious flu. While testing her the ran an MRI and CT scan and found her right kidney has a growth the same size as the kidney (80% chance it's slow cancer) ergo pain in right side the last 6 months. They also found nodules in bottom of right lung. Saw urologist and kidney is coming out in February the week before granddaughter's Bat Mitzvah. Seeing pulmonologist the 18th to see if we need to combine surgeries. We booked a 7 day cruise in April, planning on FL 120 in May and our 7th BEER Cruise in June. I'm freaking out after watching videos of the robot taking a kidney out next to large intestine. Lots can go wrong, but Becky says she will not miss any planed event just because of a kidney. The left one will quickly grow another 70% to handle everything.
Hang in there. My 86 year old wife lost a kidney to a blood clot about 50 years ago. Doing fine ever since. My daughter donated a kidney to start a chain of donors that grew to about 6 people. Doing fine also.
Ed, Whoa! That's pretty heavy duty news, there! :o
Becky now added to the list of people I pray for.
You, Dale, Roland, and a BUNCH of people on this board have wives with health issues. :(
Starting to wonder if I need to start finding healthier friends . . . . . :P
Charles Brennan
Ed, sorry to hear of your wife's health issues. We hurt when they hurt. Sounds like she's determined - that's good. Prayers for positive outcomes.
It does sound like her attitude is great. A year ago, my wife was going through cancer treatments with a good outcome. They can do some amazing stuff.
QuoteYou, Dale, Roland, and a BUNCH of people on this board have wives with health issues. :(
Yes, Charles:
My wife is a cancer survivor; a survivor both of the cancer and of the treatment.
Treatments included surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy.
Some residual effects of the treatment.
Best wishes for others undergoing such treatment.
Regards, Roland
There are powerful forces that exist within us, both good and bad. We will not define the difference of good and bad...
As long as we have a strong desire to live, we can overcome many terrible illnesses.
I am confident that Captain KIdd and his wife both have that strength within them, and a healthy result is likely.
I now live in a retirement community, with an average age in the 70's. There is an attached nursing facility with hundreds of residents. I have had many friends here long before my wife and I moved here. Visiting can be either very depressing, or uplifting and encouraging. One friend went to nursing after a fall broke a bone, he "Graduated" back to his apartment. He fell again, broke a different bone, rehab successful, and back to his apartment. This was uplifting and I left in good spirits. His 3rd fall included a depressed scull fracture, and he is in a section with doors that are always locked. A depressing visit, especially since I know 3 others who live there, and the last time, none of them recognized me.
I currently have 5 people that I have visited who have proper functioning brains, and the visits are good for me and them.
The last week there is a lot of the regular flu around, and I was invited to leave without my second visit, the first went undetected, as I was masked, and knew my way to the room. Only RNs are empowered to send you out...
The regular retirement community is very good at voluntarily restricting themselves to their apartments, with meals delivered.
The minister of our church is very good at visiting, and we have met there often enough that he now greets me at church as "Our main visitor". :)
Ed, so the flu was good for something - helping to find these serious things. I will hold you both in the light as you go through this journey.
I had attempted to attach this to my original post but was unsuccessful. Tried a couple more times. But here she goes! My wife and me with our six grands (ages 7-19). My daughters are 6 years apart and the grands are about the same (older siblings 19, 17, 14; younger siblings 13, 10, 7). Very special. Makes me smile (and sometimes cry - tears of joy that is).
Blessings to all and happy new year!
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I can understand that one! There are numerous and sundry relations running all over Mississippi, some blood and some not. I love spending time with them all and now most of them even have children now, so that's multiplied!!!
Ed, I'm sorry to hear Becky and you are facing such problems. Prayers will be said. We pullin' for y'all.
And I can't say all that without tooting THIS horn:
NYC had better watch out! There are currently four of Mississippi's finest women walking the streets and creating aching hearts in their trail. All of my surrogate and real daughters are there, soaking up the city lights, and I get to vicariously live it through FB. From the airplane ride to the Met!!!
Surrogate is used here in a spiritual sense. Two of the women are just someone else's daughters from another mother. They've been around almost as long as my daughters have, riding the waves of Life, with Sonya and I watching on, and watching out. We love them like our own. Maybe even more sometimes! In this place it is not unusual at all to have a life-long relationships with others, and family you aren't the least bit related to.
My eldest daughter just finished with a Masters and is now an NP, and they all colluded to celebrate and gifted her with a NYC trip. She's a card, and tough as nails when it comes to it. I don't worry about her, even fighting drug addicts in the ER where she works. They're all amazing women, every last one of them. NYC has NO idea how lucky it is and I figure they deserved a celebration.
Her best friend and partner in crime (I'll never tell and the statute of limitations has run out) is there. She grew up right down the street and her hubby just retired as Chief of Police in a nearby town. She's in insurance and has a great remote job and travels some, with 4 kids of her own. I've known her since she was barely out of diapers, now 40 some odd years old.
My second daughter is there with HER best friend. My daughter has three kids and is a nurse on contract and her friend a medical training expert, also with a fantastic remote job. She is a world traveler and is single and beautiful. My wife helped her mother move back to Mississippi from Colorado when she got sick from cancer and eventually passed away. She looks on us as surrogate parents and we keep an eye on her and help when we can. The girl is so smart it scares me.
They're all beautiful and successful women and I'm very proud of all of them!
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