TheTXTaylors5
He's the Mickey to my Minnie
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- Sep 14, 2006
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Hi Susan. It's GREAT to see you back on the boards. We missed you.
Thanks for asking about the pup. She seems to be doing better. At least she's eating now and the worst possible diagnosis was ruled out for now.
To all of my fellow-Adventurers, this is ourGreta:
I was reading back on facebook too regarding Greta. Being a dog lover (We have a mutt. He's 1/2 German Shepherd and 1/2 Dachshund. I don't even want to know how that happened.
), I am always sad to hear when a dog is ill or in pain. I'm very glad she is doing better and on the road to recovery. She is beautiful.
Jennifer
We got up at the crack of dawn this morning (4:30 am) to take Bill to the airport. He caught the first flight out of DFW Airport to Washington DC (Reagan Nat'l) to meet up with my Mom. My Mom is moving from Northern Virginia to Texas this weekend. Since Bill is a loving and caring Son In-law, he is driving cross country with my Mom in her car. (Insert Mother In-Law jokes here. 
Her belongings will follow in November when her house is finished being built. For the time being, the movers have stored her items in VA. She's moving into a 55 and over active adult community about twenty minutes from our house. My Mom will be staying with us for about three months until her new house is completed. We moved Will (DS9) out of his room into Cole's (DS3) room. Cole has bunk beds and Will has a queen bed. So, it worked out perfectly. 
The reason for my Mom's move is that we lost my Step-Dad very suddenly last spring (a few weeks before their 25th Wedding Anniversary). They were at relatives in PA for Easter and on the Monday following Easter, my Mom heard a loud yell/gasp from the room they were staying in. My Step-Dad was having difficulty breathing. So, they called 911. My Mom followed him to the hospital in the relative's car. Since, he was breathing when she left him and he was now in the hands of the paramedics, she assumed when she got to the hospital she would get to see my Step-Dad and all would be fine. However, they came out and gave her the news of his passing once he reached the hospital. As expected, she was in shock. She called me moments after getting the news from the doctor. I remember exactly where I was when I got that call, I was driving home with the children in the car after Will's (DS9) annual check-up. I was on this country back road and had to pull over because I couldn't drive my eyes were so full of tears. My Step-Dad was only 55 when he passed, my Mom married a younger man (five years her junior). All last year, she was worried about her Mom passing because she had been battling cancer and refused further treatment. So, we all were getting prepared for my Grandmother's passing. Then out of nowhere, my Step-Dad dies. With his sudden passing, my Mom wanted an autopsy (as did the insurance company). Come to find out, he died of a blood clot that was trying to pass through his heart. Seven months later, my Mom had to bury her Mother too. Last year was a pretty tough year for my Mom. She didn't have any family in Virginia. They moved there because my Step-Dad was in the Army and stationed in No. VA. We really could only do so much from TX. We spent two weeks with her to help make preparations for my Step-Dad's funeral and to make sure she could function after we left. Since then, she has made a few trips to TX for the grandkids' birthday parties and Christmas. After a year, she was ready to move from the home she and my Step-Dad shared to TX to be closer to my sister and I. I know it will be a hard transition. But, we plan to help her any way we can. My sister lives about an hour from us and is presently pregnant. So, it will be nice for Mom to be here when the baby is born. This is the next chapter of her life. I don't expect her to forget my Step-Dad. But, I don't think he would want her unhappy either. So, we will try and help her in this next phase of her life. 
Jennifer
