to all who have been so very loving in their support...news

A wedding too?? WOW, Pat you are ALL full of good news aren't you?!! or am I just missing a few steps here? I think I am just behind on a few things..lol..but hey whats new right?! hee hee..YOU NEED TO CATCH ME UP!!! I am so happy for you..its about time some GOOD things happened in your life!!! so thrilled for you!! I TOLD you things were gonna start looking up!!

welllllllllllll. you know sky........she gets the cart before the horse on me sometimes.she wants some happiness buzzing around this little pointed head!!

we're engaged but no date set........and may never marry.......i think that sky wants one of those "Tori and Whomever" weddings and all of PC there! and hillbunny would have to carry a train, cause i'm older than dirt and wouldn't be able to drag the damned thing myself. but if it does happen, willie will give me away and mickey will play "here comes the bride" on his harmonica!!!!!

so, no virtual wedding shower. he's trying to move here.....maybe a virtual moving day...... and he has to get a lot better......company would move his stuff......

i'm rather giddy over the health news. i was in the trenches, as was he, and i'm still digesting that one doc sent us spiraling and two others had a totally different take......ahhhhhhhhhh, sweet life.......xoxox pat

p.s. i'm back in long, tall texas now.......flight was smooth......

p.p.s......i am serious as all get out over that smilie. i never knew that it was a bride til i moved my cursor over it!!!!!

(((((((((psst gonna highjack for a sec,.... read my post about the texas diary in social)))))))))))))))))

Fayrody..I know you weren't holding out on me!? Congratulations!! Let us know when you set a date!! Ill be the bartender at your reception..Ive had years of experience..Was one for 7 years..I make a mean Margarita..I make a mean anything..LOL..You would have a FUN reception!! hee hee
Glad you landed safely back in the grand ole state of Texas!!

i think that the "announcement" of the engagement may have come before you came sliding in through those swinging doors.......

((((FAYRODY))) lol..im just playing with ya..I kinda figured!!

i'm taken with your declaration of making those drinks.....and my idea of you sliding around through the sliding doors. i have an extremely visual mind, photographer, and i'm still laughing about your serving drinks at a cyberwedding........

Very good news. I'm very happy for you both.

BTW, did I tell you I get to see Willie in a week or so? He's touring with John Fogarty. It will probably be hotter than blazes, but I've never seen either, so I'm excited.



I will think of you while there.

Take care. You've been through a lot recently. Glad it's turned the corner into good news.

gg

you are going to love Will..........wear a hat or visor......and if school hasn't started, his two youngest boys will be in the band............i've not seen Fogerty. sounds good!

and i'm still laughing about your serving drinks at a cyberwedding........

LMAO..hey I can serve drinks at a cyberwedding..I might be the only one drunk off my *****..but I guarantee I AM gonna have a darn good time..hee hee

Hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hugs,

Jan

for those who don't know how we met....here is the short version. i was hunting classy e. cards and found a site. they had four or five message boards. one was literary. i went to it.

there were poets there. they didn't think that music is poetry. so to jerk their chains, i posted a Lyle Lovett song.

a man in Malaysia came home from work, put a Lyle Lovett CD in his player....went to send an e. card at the site that i used. saw the message boards. chose the literary board.

came in and saw the Lyle Lovett song which was playing in his player at that moment. his message was "i'm new, but i have this to say, "weezilgirl, will you marry me?"...when i went back later and saw the proposal, i replied that i would marry him.

for months, we planned a wild and far out wedding that included prairie dogs from the park across my street, buffaloes from a wildlife refuge and guineas, from the park, as bridesmaids in little bridesmaids dresses.

we sucked all of the oxygen out of the room every time we went there. he had a nickname for me and for awhile some of my friends thought he was flirting and posting to another woman! and they jumped him and chastised him.........

the rest is history.......five years........two rings...a topaz and one from an estate sale......and recently i found the printout of his proposal and scanned it and sent it to him......

Awwwww maaaaaaaaaan, I hope I have a story like that to tell some day.

It's been a week and a half for us and he hasn't proposed yet. What's his problem?

i'll think on that. right now, i'm smelling the paint fumes from my newly painted dining room.....and i might suggest something untoward.......

serendipity is soooooo amazing. if that's not a "meant to be" story, i don't know what is...... geeeezlouisehenrietta, can't beat that!!

going from needing a transplant to needing dialisis to being stabilized on meds...???? ...!!!!! patients need to know more than the doctors and need advocates with them and my worst fear is that THEY will get me when i don't have either....

QUESTION AUTHORITY, especially if your life is in their hands!

one of my most favourite jobs ever was being a patient advocate in a triage center ER........i already knew ALOT about the medical side and learned ALOT about the patient side there. you have to have an advocate with you or they will KILL you.

...friend of mine had life-threatening car wreck. 80 stitches on his forehead and his jaw was broken and larynx smashed.i slept in his room. consulting doc came in and told him that all of his surgery could be done out-patient. told him to drive from OKC to Austin and come back.......

that doctor and i had a heart to heart in the hall that he probably still hasn't forgotten......he almost scared my friend to death by telling him that. and he was only a consulting! he didn't even have the power to dismiss this patient....if i had not been there, all sorts of hell would have broken loose and happened......stay close to your loved ones in a hospital......

bill isn't out of the woods. meds have to work.....cross all extremities.......p

Pat,

I am so happy to hear about about Bill's medical status.....that has to be a great sigh of relief to be able to control the condition with meds rather than the scarry waiting line for a transplant.

And an engagement.....wow......how much more wonderful news can you handle.....lol. I am so glad that things are looking up for you....it's the time to sit back & enjoy life while things are going good.

I agree with you about Dr's. I think it is necessary to have 2nd, 3rd, 4th......opinions until I feel I can trust a Dr. I know that I hated my mothers oncologist surgeon from the beginning & thought my mother should find a better one. Unfortunately, she liked him & everyone told her how good he was. There is no Dr in the world that is great when he won't even deal with the reality of her death....& continually telling her that he "got it all". She loved him & told me that he saved her life. (she died just over 6 months after the surgery). Unfortunately, at one of her important hospitalizations, I was with her everyday, but not at the right time to force my requests to be there when they were having discussions with her about her care. I was continually left out. I guess that was why I thought there was time....because I was never told that she was being discharged. It does seem like you have to plant yourself in their room 24/7 otherwise, you will miss the one important time that you need to be there. The last hospitalization of my Mothers, I did live in her room 24/7 for over 3 weeks....& her Dr still claimed that he "got it all".....even as they were taking her daily for x-rays, tracking the spread of the cancer to her lungs.

Those experiences have stuck in my mind, & now know what I should have done differently. Unfortunately, I probably will never be in the same situation again....I just feel the need to be able to communicate to others in a similar situation how to protect themselves against what I went through & how it tied into the ID theft trauma I went through.

You are a great example of how to handle medical situations & people. It is wonderful that your experience has brought your own family the care that they need.

You are awsome & I'm glad all these great things are happening to you,
Debbie

{{{{{{{{{{Fayerody & Bill}}}}}}}}}}

So happy that you got better news

Couldn't agree more about taking the second & even third opinions no-one is perfect, not even the Docs

Great news !!!!! I'll be in touch.

And yes, also agree, stay close to your loved ones in hospital, I have a diabetic son & if one of us isn't with him before surgery, they always put him into coma by sheer incompetence.

I'm glad you are there for Bill... in that respect. I have no one to go with me when I need emergency care... and I have suffered because of that.

(I can't remember what it's like to have someone care IRL other than T... but your post gives me encouragement. )

sky, i'm on call for you 24/7......if i can gas up the truck and get there......all you gotta do is call me.......got that, woman? xoxoxo pat