Mom

Mom had her right knee replaced before my birthday. On August 7th she had to have it re-opened because her sutures had opened. They fixed things and sent her on her way. On Friday she visited the doctor because her leg was red around the sutures. He sent her to the hospital and the opened the knee again and went layer by layer irrigating, and cleaning. Then they replaced the plastic piece between the 2 metal pieces. They ran cultures and found out she has a staph infection. She will have to wear a pump that continuously cleans the the wound, and puts in antibiotics for 4 to 6 weeks. Then she will have to take an oral antibiotic for 4 more weeks. It seems surreal. The worst part of it is that there is only a 40% chance that the knee won't have to be replaced. I know you are up there, do you think you can help those odds in her favor? Love ya guy.

Penny troubles

It has been pretty hard to find wheat pennies. I have managed to collect 4 of them so far. Love ya guy.

One you would appreciate

I had given up on reading Clive Cussler, I was enamored with his books. They were okay but not the best thing I have ever read. I needed a book and was at the grocery store and a Clive book was the only thing available I was willing to read. So the book is called The Navigator and shortly into it I run across a paragraph that says Vice president Sandecker and NUMA director Pitt. What? I have never heard of this, when did this happen? I thought right away that it would have called you to find out what book that happened in. Love ya guy.

Happy Birthday Mom

Today is mom's birthday. I was talking to her last night and she started to cry. I guess this is one of those times that we miss you. I missed you on my birthday. I know that time has started to heal the loss of you. But at the strangest times we are reminded of you. I received a Nintendo DS, and I found some of my old gameboy games, I put the poker one in and it was actually yours, you were one of the saved files. Alex has stayed with us for the last week and a half, and he and I had some conversations that you and I would have had. He misses listening to sports radio with you. I missed you all at our annual picnic. I couldn't remember why you weren't there last year, but I remember you weren't. I was frustrated that I couldn't remember why. I don't like forgetting anything about you. It is scary that I may lose some of my memories of you. I know time will rob me of some of these but it does make me sad. My birthday was fun, the picnic was fun. I did some ribs as well as the chicken this year. The ribs were excellent. I want to post here more often, but it has been a little hard to talk to you lately. I miss you a lot, I miss being able to call you and ask you about MSU football. You died to soon, I was supposed to have you in my life for another 20 years. Mom was supposed to have you in her life for the next 20 years. We all miss you and on our birthdays it is hard not to wish for another day with you, to wish to wake from a dream and be able to tell you about this bad dream we had. We wish we had tine to spend with you. Love ya guy.