| [Here's the repost after the restore after the trojan horse nasty bit] Just a (hopefully)quickie update since that's all I have energy to do [but I do tend to ramble once I get going].... !!!MARILYN IS BACK!!! I've already had 2 session LOL -- and I finally feel like I just may be able to recoup with her help ! Jenny heads out to CO to look at their new digs, William comes home soon, but not soon enough, to go to Fort Corson, Colorado -- which is SO not Iraq!!! I can't wait until he comes back. Yes!yesyes! The downside is they will be gone 3 years...that means no Robyn until she's 9+, and no EE (Even Everett) until he's 4, four, fore!!!!! We'll miss all his goiwing up, and won't be able to leave out grandparenting imprint on him...rats. So, since Miz Jenny is going easterly, we decided to have a BBQkabob w/rice, like Mom and Dad used to have in the summer every Sunday. This will be different than the typical BBQ, and will be a Gordy-Zoe type o' thang...I sure hope they enjoy it and have fun -- as usual, the weatherfolk are talking another grey, chance of showers+, type of 4th weekend that we're known for -- was it last year that we had our first nice one since I've lived in WA? We're putting up our croquet set, and the "awberries are growing" ready for pickin' and Gae and Terry may stop by, and Kim, Douggie (and his sister and bro-in-law) with Karla, and, the raison d'eter for this foodfest, the Coalekids and their kids and S.O.'s. So, no idea how many peeps will show up, we dunno. We're having chickenkabob, and veggiekabobs for me, and maybe Mom, and basmati rice and more food to be determined (by letting Gordy go solo to Costco, I had no control over purchases, and what he's chosen NOT to get stuff on the list, like dessert?!? hmmmmm). G is talking to Doris now as I write. Apparently the hormone Rx she's taking has shrunk her tumor so that they can now get margins so surgery looks like it's now possible and in her future. Doris does NOT deserve this, especially at her age -- and at what point does the pain she'll go through and the trauma and the exhaustion help v. making her quality of life so tough that quanity of years potentially gained (no guarantees) isn't that significant, and it will be so miserable that the joyful twinkle and ready laugh will be gone, and her mobility will be even lessened since she can't use her arms much at first while she heals, and she uses a walker and /or a manual wheel chair, which she won't be able to use both arms...hmm, going in circles? yikes...and then the radiation or chemo to follow and nausea (maybe) and exhaustion (maybe) and hair loss (maybe) and other side effects will be impacting her life. I hope Gordy and Terry really really really put the oncologist on the spot to get a realistic picture, so a smart decision can be made with Doris, the woman, the human being in mind v. the "cancer". Gordy isn't really one to question "authority" in the medical field at least. And my health history has shown me that NOT asking questions is the worse thing that can be done, and NOT making oneself, or one's loved one be "fleshed out" and seen as a human, and individual, rather than a disease is the worse thing one can do. Anyway -- the yard is looking great, a barbie is in the making, I've started cleaing the house, and our arms are wide open for the kids (as they always have been) so I hope that they have fun and maybe choose to keep visiting us more often?!? One can hope, right? Les furs went to the vet yesterday, very healthy, yes! but but but -- poor Livie is 18lbs!!! So, dieting is in their future, and as dear Dr Parent says, I will have to get tough and turn a deaf ear to their (her) cries, and her big sorrowful hungry eyes -- yikes! I'm a sucker for my loved ones being unhappy when I can make 'em happy. BUT, I am determined to NOT take my healthy Olivia, and help her be susceptible to diabetes, asthma et al like my Dear Yoko had. My mantra has to be "Tough Love". On the splurge side, I just picked me up -- er I mean Miz Olivia just grabbed me from QVC a HO Photosmart 325 printer. It's fun! And I'm so bad about getting snaps up online for others to see, or follow through and email 'em, et al -- that this may help me in the future, like, I was thinking specifically, that from the BBKabob on Sat, that I can take snaps, print some, and get 'em to William etc etc. We'll see. Well enuff blabbing -- hopefully I'll get some snaps up and inserted later...we'll see.
OH YES -- before I sign off, Mary Travers is doing so much better, we got the heads up from Christine, and it's posted on her side, and /or check out Mary's site as previously posted. You're amazing Ms Mary and we're all pulling for you!
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