Something about Nothing, come join in........

[roseprincess]

Mac- praying your DS gets better and heals well from his tonsil surgery

Kieshashadow- welcome back from your UO trip!

Bubba's mom- Happy birthday to your FIL

yankeepenny- glad you are doing better from the car accident.
The baby back ribs sound good! Yum!

Hi to all

 

[yankeepenny]

rosemarie- keep smiling, I am praying for you

 

[roseprincess]

Mac- I think a few pages back you mentioned about my DD( Chrissy's) heart surgeries. Yes, Chrissy has had 3 open heart surgeries already. 2 of them when she was an infant. She ended up having a full blown rare staph aureus bacterial infection after her first heart surgery. Her heart surgeon had to go back in and remove an abscess that had formed between her breastbone and her heart. Very tricky surgery to remove the abscess. She ended up being in the hosp. her first 4 and half months of her life. Not kidding at all. She was in pediatric ICU about 2 and a half months of her hosp. stay. She was on high pediatric doses of IV antibiotics and on a ventilator for many weeks, in the hosp. She finally recovered from all this in August 1997 and came home from hosp on Aug 10 1997,she was in the hosp since April 4 1997- the date of her birth. Chrissy's 3rd heart surgery was when she was 18 months old in Oct. 1998. Thank God she stayed only a week in the hosp that time around- no surgery complications then .

We are very blessed she is doing well since then. She is a miracle child, very fiesty miracle child tho. lol.
Whatever health insurance didn't cover, we had to pay out of pocket. Alot of medical bills at the time and hospitals wanting their $$$
Sorry if this is TMI to alot here. Just wanted to explain about Chrissy's heart surgeries and her hospitalizations.
I probably should open a Caringbridge website for Chrissy, but I never get around to it .

 

[roseprincess]

rosemarie- keep smiling, I am praying for you

Thanks, Penny

 

[macraven]

hi rose, i still have your dh and family on my prayer list.
i know this is not a time that is easy for you, something good will happen soon.

thanks for the background on chrissy. she has gone through a lot of surgery.
i am sure it was hard on you and hubby.


penny, no rain here yet for us.
our front yard is turning brown, i'm ready for rain.
send some over to me!

 

[t-and-a]

Rosemarie,
I'll keep you in my prayers. I know this is a hard time for you and your family. It's so important now more than ever to spend time with your family and to do everything you can to keep your DH's spirits lifted. Just know that it will get better!

 

[t-and-a]

penny, no rain here yet for us.
our front yard is turning brown, i'm ready for rain.
send some over to me!

I know that Lori and I would both be happy to send you some rain! I don't know about Lori, but we're getting it here right now! It has been coming and going in spurts today since about 2 PM, but that hasn't stopped the kids from shooting fireworks!

 

[roseprincess]

hi rose, i still have your dh and family on my prayer list.
i know this is not a time that is easy for you, something good will happen soon.

thanks for the background on chrissy. she has gone through a lot of surgery.
i am sure it was hard on you and hubby.


penny, no rain here yet for us.
our front yard is turning brown, i'm ready for rain.
send some over to me!

Thanks, Mac
I do have some hope something good will come out of DH's job search, too.
It's the waiting part that's so hard.

Yeah, 10 yrs ago when Chrissy was in the hosp. for those months, it was very difficult We were so glad DH had a bunch of guys from his small group at our church that were praying for us at the time and were spiritually supportive of us.

Thanks, you guys, I can share here. Thanks for listening


Now back to regular programming.....
Mac, I hope it rains by you. We had pouring rain here late last night.

 

[roseprincess]

Rosemarie,
I'll keep you in my prayers. I know this is a hard time for you and your family. It's so important now more than ever to spend time with your family and to do everything you can to keep your DH's spirits lifted. Just know that it will get better!

Thanks, Alison



Ok, I gotta get off the computer as dinner is ready real soon.

Have a good night everyone

 

[macraven]

well, i want the fireworks to happen at 9:30 tonight before we get any rain.



am i particular or what.......

 

[keishashadow]

rosemarie - sorry to hear of your woes; both situations by themselves would be enough to worry you to pieces . Hope everthing is right as rain (how old does that make me sound?) very soon ...tons of pixie & mummy dust your way.

i hope it rains like heck, too tired to watch the works tonight...the sun will come out tomorrow. nuthin like a good show tune to chase the clouds away.

 

[macraven]

everything is as right as rain????


must be an east coast thing to say.



i would think of what we used to say but as you know, the memory is the first thing to go on old people......

 

[AlexandNessa]

Rose, I am still praying for you as well. Sometimes finding a new job takes time, and it takes practicing that awful "p" word. It's awful because I have none (patience).

I had to work today and am ready to try to go to bed. They do the fireworks not far from my house, so really looking forward to that. I do hope everyone enjoyed her holiday though!

Anyway, the next time I decide to bud into something, can someone please remind me to keep my mouth shut and just stay out of it? I swear, my mother is going to kill me because I decided to contact my aunt and tell her she needs to step up and start pitching in her share with my grandmother. Let's just say it's not going well, and now I'm in the middle of it and I'm not sure how to get what I started resolved, and I just needed not to meddle in the first place. I thought I was helping. I didn't. Frick. Double frick. I am 35 years old and in big trouble with my mom. I feel like I'm 14 again. Cripes. It seemed like a good idea at the time...

 

[GemmaPixie]

No what I just realised? Mummy dust. I always thought you all were talking about 'mommy dust' as americans would spell it and I didn't even think it was spelt wrong for you guys!! So its Mummy dust as in called that because of the ride right??

I prefer Mummy/mommy dust- its just so protective and warm!

 

[macraven]

look at the bright side of this situation jodie....

your mom more than likely will not ask to go on any vacations with you in the near future.



really, you did what you thought should be done in the behalf of your gma.
i would have done the same thing you did.

you probably don't like to sit back and watch your mom doing all the work for gma. you love your mom and just wanted to fix things for her.

 

[macraven]

No what I just realised? Mummy dust. I always thought you all were talking about 'mommy dust' as americans would spell it and I didn't even think it was spelt wrong for you guys!! So its Mummy dust as in called that because of the ride right??

I prefer Mummy/mommy dust- its just so protective and warm!

we call it mummy dust........

 

[AlexandNessa]

Thank you, mac. Everything you said is spot on. The problem is that I just took it too far.

On a lighter note , we had about 2 fireworks here, but we're in the middle of a torrential downpour now and that's all they could squeeze in. Speaking of fireworks, we live on the PA/NJ border. Fireworks are legal in PA, illegal in NJ. Troopers had a field day fining folks who were smuggling them across the border.

 

[yankeepenny]

IT IS FINALLY RAINING HERE IN NEW ENGLAND!!!!!!!

 

[macraven]

penny, was it my mummy dust that made it rain?


i believe in mummies.....i believe in mummies......i believe in mummies....

 

[loribell]

Hang in there Rose. I am keeping you & your family in my thoughts & prayers.

Mac- hope all is okay with your son.

Yeah Penny - you finally took our stinkin rain away!!!!!! We had 20 days in a row of it.

Jodie - you know you did the right thing. Your mom will get over it & your aunt needs to step up. Someone needs to keep after her. If she doesn't start doing things for your gma she will end up regretting it later. My mom & dad bought a trailer for my gma and moved her in on our farm right next to our house when I was in high school so we coudl be there for her & do things for her/with her. To this day mom will still talk about how glad she is that she did that but how she feels it was enough to make up for all the years she felt like she didn't do enough for her. She still talks about how upset her brother & sisters are that they didn't spend more time with her. My grandmother died 26 years ago.

My point with all this rambling, your aunt is going to really hate that she neglected your gma. Your mother is going to resent her for neglecting your gma. Something had to be done.

Be strong and do what you know needs to be done.

Everyone have a great day!!!!!