Saturday Update…

Thanks Jo for the answers. As best as I know right now, she has activity in her frontal lobe and brain stem ONLY. She’s slipping away and my dad seems to think she’s just hanging on until my mom gets there. I have about 5 more family members coming tomorrow to see her before she [...]

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Friday afternoon update

The EEG results came in. This is what my dad told me over the phone: Her frontal lobes are fine and they look undamaged. The rest of her brain…uh…not so good. I still haven’t heard if they think it was a stroke, dialysis, diabetes, lack of blood pressure medicine (doctors say she hadn’t filled her [...]

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So tired…

This was much harder than I thought it would be. We went up there, saw her and…I can’t really describe it. As for the medical things: They did an MRI because they thought she might have had a bi-hemeral stroke (meaning a stroke on both sides of the brain). She also has started posturing in [...]

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Update for Thursday

Call from my mom came in this morning. Her blood pressure is stabilizing and they have an air type thingy to keep her temperature where it should be. They’re doing another CAT and an MRI. The neurologist seems to think some damage might have been done to her brain because of everything.Dad should have landed [...]

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Update…

Things are not looking good. As of 9am this morning my sister Stephanie was still not improving. According to the doctor who talked with my parents this morning, she was “restless” due to being cephalopathic. I understand this to be a sort of state of the brain having seizures. She clenched her teeth so hard [...]

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News from the Homefront…

My sister is in the hospital. That would be Stephanie, the 23 year old diabetic who’s been on dialysis for the last 6 months. Apparently she’s been trying to fight her blood sugar. Lately it’s been routinely over 200. At home things aren’t good. She has helped my grandma by stripping the old wallpaper in [...]

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Firefly/Serenity

GO buy this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AQS0F/qid=1130255872/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-0980445-6449705?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846 and watch the series…
Then listen to this: http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/signal.php from Episodes 1 to 15 (No Special Editions, Bonus shows or anything just the regular episodes)
Then go see this: http://www.serenitymovie.com/, preferably with a friend or two or more.
AT LEAST see the movie. I garauntee you won’t be disappointed. If you are, tell me [...]

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To my future children…

This is a piece I found on collegehumor.com. I rarely visit the site because 1.) I’m not in college and never have been and 2.) It’s usually not funny. However my sister turned me on to the site a couple years ago and so, like Fark and Digg, I stop by every now and then [...]

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OK gotta send a little plug out…

Victoria has a blog. Her posts are short but much more entertaining than mine.
http://lushrain.blogspot.com/
Check her out. She’s a crackpot. As in…she cracks me up. Or Something.
Anyways, I’m hoping my future posts will be a bit less dull, bland and WORDY. I realize the less you say, the more people will want to read what you [...]

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Back, Back, Back…oooh and time runs out!

Alright alright. The Padres did absolutely nothing to show why they belonged in the playoffs. Three games = Three losses. Nice to see San Diego represent. Ugh.
what the holy heck are these?
Meanwhile the Red Sox also got swept, the Braves are coming back and the Buccaneers are looking weak today. 14-9 Jets as this post [...]

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