09/15/07 Early Check in September 15, 2007 Eastern

[tomspixie]

Truly adorable! They look awesome. You are right that you may need another costume for Wyatt by next year! I am hoping that Tom will download our photo from our school's Trunk or Treat event! Our boys coordinated with a friend for a whole pirate theme. We had Will Turner and Commodore Norrington! The neighbor boy was Jack. I was hoping my daughter would go for pirate Elizabeth!! No such luck as of yet...i still have a day!!!

 

[tomspixie]

Kamy,

Hey this is Janet,

You don't need to feel sorry.
It is obvious that we are all a bunch of people living the typical ups and downs of life. DCL such seems to be one of our ups we all share.
I see know reason why we can't share the downs as well.

That is enough of that! I do sarcasm and silly comes much easier to me then supportive!!!

Hang in there.

Janet

Well said!

 

[kamgen]

Hey everyone. Well, hospice nurse just left. They are giving him hours to days at most..... Even the nurse was sad....hard to see a 55year old man like this...and today is my parents anniversary....geez, this is hard. But I want him to be at peace, so I hope he passses soon....goes up with the angels.
Thank you all for your emails, pms and nice comments. I cannot wait to meet you all and thank you personally.

 

[Tigger&Bubba]

Hey everyone. Well, hospice nurse just left. They are giving him hours to days at most..... Even the nurse was sad....hard to see a 55year old man like this...and today is my parents anniversary....geez, this is hard. But I want him to be at peace, so I hope he passses soon....goes up with the angels.
Thank you all for your emails, pms and nice comments. I cannot wait to meet you all and thank you personally.

Kamy,

We're here for you! Take care and know peace will come.

 

[Tigger&Bubba]

Tracy,
I hope you make it over here soon. my mail box will be full before you know it. It is much easier to post here and you can meet all my cruise friends here.

 

[Trblues]

Hey Tigger
Should have called myself "wandering lost and lovin it"
You know I will need a GPS on the ship to find my way to my cabin.

 

[Tigger&Bubba]

Hey Tigger
Should have called myself "wandering lost and lovin it"
You know I will need a GPS on the ship to find my way to my cabin.

Did you subscribe to the thread? Be sure and mark the page in your favorites so you won't get lost any more. If you don't log off you won't have to remember your password either. Whew!

Glad you're here. had to get all that out of my system before you disappeared again.

NOW..

Trblues to the ​

Welcome aboard!

 

[tomspixie]

Hey everyone. Well, hospice nurse just left. They are giving him hours to days at most..... Even the nurse was sad....hard to see a 55year old man like this...and today is my parents anniversary....geez, this is hard. But I want him to be at peace, so I hope he passses soon....goes up with the angels.
Thank you all for your emails, pms and nice comments. I cannot wait to meet you all and thank you personally.

Know that you are not alone! We are out here praying for you and those around you. It is always harder on those of us left, as we are selfish and want more time with those we love. DH lost his dad a few years back. Lost several friends in the last couple of years...all too young!!-in their early 40's. My mom has been fighting a terminal illness for the last three years. She outlived the docs by two and a half years!! We are currently very scared as she has taken a big negative turn. But...God has a plan...and we have to follow it! Kamy and family... Blessings to you all!

Tif

 

[Hixski]

Hey everyone. Well, hospice nurse just left. They are giving him hours to days at most..... Even the nurse was sad....hard to see a 55year old man like this...and today is my parents anniversary....geez, this is hard. But I want him to be at peace, so I hope he passses soon....goes up with the angels.
Thank you all for your emails, pms and nice comments. I cannot wait to meet you all and thank you personally.

DH lost his dad 9 yrs ago. He had 25 heart attacks, a pace maker, quadruple bypass and then died from Alzheimers. Don't feel guilty. It is awful to watch someone go downhill. DH cried more over our dog that we had to put to sleep right before that. He said his dad needed to go and it broke his heart to watch.

 

[2canadianfans]

Hey everyone. Well, hospice nurse just left. They are giving him hours to days at most..... Even the nurse was sad....hard to see a 55year old man like this...and today is my parents anniversary....geez, this is hard. But I want him to be at peace, so I hope he passses soon....goes up with the angels.
Thank you all for your emails, pms and nice comments. I cannot wait to meet you all and thank you personally.

Thinking of you and your family...sharon

 

[Tigger&Bubba]

Happy Halloween​

I'm looking forward to seeing the neighborhood children in all their different costumes. And some kids from other neighborhoods that get "bussed" in. I always ask the children where they live. I will dress up for them. We always buy way too much candy so the later crowd will get handfuls. I don't want it left over around here!

Have a safe, fun, trick or treat. Let's see those costumes!

 

[captaincrash]

Hey everyone. Well, hospice nurse just left. They are giving him hours to days at most..... Even the nurse was sad....hard to see a 55year old man like this...and today is my parents anniversary....geez, this is hard. But I want him to be at peace, so I hope he passses soon....goes up with the angels.
Thank you all for your emails, pms and nice comments. I cannot wait to meet you all and thank you personally.

Kamy...

... Our family will be praying for your family. For what-ever it might be worth ... I was the primary care giver for my Mother about 18 years ago in her battle with multple myeloma (a form of cancer in the blood/bone marrow - not leukemia as I understand it). So, I can really relate to what your family might be going through.

Years from now you may look back on this time and see something... what? Who knows... but in myself I think it is a part of life to go through these times with the ones you love and care about. Right now we have near a half dozen who are family or good friends who are facing similar chronic challenges. One example: We have a friend who was just diagnosed with kidney cancer who was cited as having about 20% of a chance for 2 years.... shes' in her early 40s like us with a young child. Circumstances for others deal with similar conditions - all chronic with final outcomes likely - and under half are under age 50. Shoot, I used to not think much about these sort of things but all of a sudden mortality is threatening several folks at or near our age!

I think that in looking back a lot can be gleaned from these times. Adversity builds character in some. Sometimes it might even add some wisdom in others ... or at the very least - an understanding how to improve on the future if similar circumstances are encountered. Either way - we are all survivors in very very difficult times. I imagine that I'm risking something in saying what I'm thinking - and "just in case" I'd like to offer an apolagy if I have failed to be diplomatic and proper. I just have strong feelings about difficult health challenges like this - and I simply have a profound depth of sympathy for caregivers and family who are fighting through these sort of challenges.

Please hang in there with the best clearity of mind that you can manage ... take care of each other through these times ... and it will get better someday one way or another. And ... remember too that once in a while predatory people seek out folks undergoing extreme stress... BAD predatory people. <to underscore this point - I believe next months' issue of MONEY magazine {Nov. p.112} has a story on how smart people get bilked by scams and people practicing financial fraud!> Just last week I was helping my best friends' mother-in-law with a predatory financial salesperson who had probably engaged in senior abuse with HER best friend (who has just passed away). It seems pretty clear to me that this "suspicious" financial salesman in trying to shift money/insurance proceeds around with the mismatched (unsuitable)instruments/products sold amount to extremely inappropriate counsel . I should have an opinion on this since I've been a wholesaler in financial services for 15+ years with 100s of agents transacting through me. So, be on your guard in these times AND watch over your expanded family in all ,atters (not just financial). You've heard of the adage to never make important decisions when under distress (if possible).

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On a seperate note... my family has been traveling in FL this past weekend so out of touch here these past few days. It's nice to see a nice dialog going!

ANd.... safe Haunting to all this Halloween evening....!

 

[captaincrash]

Hmmm....

No ones' around and we're only 8 postings away from the 400th posting....

 

[captaincrash]

I guess I'll try to sneak up on it ....

 

[captaincrash]

Only 5 to go after this one....

 

[captaincrash]

So... tonight we did Trick or Treating in our neighborhood plus we went to our Church's Halloween thing. It was a series of indoor games run by several bible study groups plus other groups from the congregation. Plretty simple stuff.

Oh yeah... anyone out there holding United Airline reservations (ticketed)? We just noted a significant price cut on several rountes this past weekend ... then we stubmbled across a further drastic cut in prices just last nite! EG... 2 weeks ago air fares from LA to Maui were 7-900 from Christmas eve til new years' eve... our current preference on dates to travel. Then last week it dropped to $560+.... and last nite we discovered fares had dropped again to a low of .... drum roll please... $355! We are gonna cancel the one seat we paid for last week at $560 and take the $100 penalty. Then we're repurchasing several seats at $355! Thus we save about $100 and we are applying several $25 discount certificates as well making the net cost per seat only $330!!!

My point... with United you can check your exact flight pairing IF you are already ticketed. If the current low fare is LOWER then what you paid for already then you can request a CREDIT VOUCHER for the difference! Repeat your request if the agent on the phone pretends to not know what you're talking about. The last rep we wrangled this from pretended to not know about what I was asking for until I made clear that I
ve been doing this refund voucher thing all the time in the past decade. So... when I alerted my sister in law of the rate reduction she called in and got $210 back on vouchers for her 3 tickets.... saving $630 and now she has seats at the 2nd lowest level they've ever paid for from Boston to Maui/Honolulu during the X-Mas holidays!

So ... anyone out there holding reservations with United? Call ASAP to check what the lowest cost for seats are on your exact flight pairing! And please let me know if you saved anything ... and if so then HOW MUCH?

Cheers....

Only 4 more to go I think til the 400th posting goes up!

 

[captaincrash]

DH lost his dad 9 yrs ago. He had 25 heart attacks, a pace maker, quadruple bypass and then died from Alzheimers. Don't feel guilty. It is awful to watch someone go downhill. DH cried more over our dog that we had to put to sleep right before that. He said his dad needed to go and it broke his heart to watch.

I had to ask.... was this perhaps a typing mistake??? That is, the TWENTY FIVE number above?

 

[captaincrash]

One more posting will mark my 2500th posting! I'm a nut ... I kno...

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[captaincrash]

 

[captaincrash]

!!! #400 !!!

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