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24072. alistairconnor - 5/11/2008 5:51:06 PM I'm making pizzas for my daughter's first "boum", or teenage party. She's actually only turning 11 this week, but she's well ahead in school so most of her friends are 13 or so.
Her elder sister, 14, is MC and DJ. I'm just staying out of the way.
It was a great excuse to clear out the barn, which is a great party room, and has been accumulating junk for a couple of years. I took at least a dozen full trash bags of the kids' old clothes away to be recycled. And shed a few tears over them. 24073. arkymalarky - 5/11/2008 6:17:13 PM Awwww. I still haven't cleared Mose's stuff out from when she moved out, and she's 23. It's on my to-do list--I tried to put it on hers, but that hasn't worked too well. 24074. Ms. No - 5/11/2008 6:17:42 PM Happy Mother's Day, Moties! 24075. judithathome - 5/12/2008 7:06:46 AM Keoni bought me...well, US...a new monitor today and it's huge...which makes the Mote take up about half the screen, for some reason.
It was really weird. I turned on the computer and it made this strange crackling sound and the screen looked like it was being eaten by something inside. Then, this acrid smell and poof...no monitor.
Now we have a slick new flat-screen one. Everything looks so bright.
Leslie brought me a varigated tea rose bush this morning. Can't wait for the blooms! 24076. judithathome - 5/13/2008 1:20:04 PM Off to DAlals today to meet with the neurosurgeon for the 4 week follow-up on my kid's head. 24077. magoseph - 5/13/2008 1:53:30 PM Good luck and keep on posting at your return, please.
24078. judithathome - 5/13/2008 9:57:32 PM Gads, I mangled Dallas....
The neurosurgeon said today that it looks like the artery is closing up again in Leslie's brain (causing the TIA he had last week) and so, a week from tomorrow we go back to the hospital and do it again, only this time he will put in a stent.
So bummed about this news...
24079. arkymalarky - 5/13/2008 10:34:07 PM I'm sorry, Judith. 24080. thoughtful - 5/13/2008 10:43:35 PM I'm sorry to hear that, but at least he's been down this road before and the doc has been down it with him, so it's familiar territory. The stent will most likely do the trick.
Stay strong. 24081. alistairconnor - 5/14/2008 4:57:50 PM Hell that's rough, Judith. I hope he'll be OK. 24082. iiibbb - 5/14/2008 6:22:27 PM Good luck J@H 24083. judithathome - 5/15/2008 9:32:23 PM The doctor himself called Leslie yesterday and said he had presented this case to a board of national and international neurosurgeons and that the consensus is to forego the stent (odd angle that might tear the artery) and go with the cranial arterial bypass.
So send good thoughts our way next Thursday...this, to me, is a much more serious surgery and by far, a much longer recuperative time. He will need to go straight from the hospital to a rehabilation facility, hopefully the one here in town where they know him and did such good work with him last year.
24084. wonkers2 - 5/15/2008 10:43:16 PM We're keeping our fingers crossed. 24085. thoughtful - 5/16/2008 1:36:54 PM Wow. Best wishes to you and Leslie. The good news is these guys are obviously being very careful and are doing their very best for him. 24086. judithathome - 5/16/2008 3:14:53 PM well, he got quite boost yesterday when he was finally able to get in contact with his pediatric oncologist...she's retired now and living on a ranch about 50 miles from here. He said she was almost speechless when she she heard him tell her who he was...and she wants to come into town and have lunch with both of us.
This is a woman whom I credit with saving Leslie's life (she administered his chemo) but most important, with saving his sanity...she would sit with him for hours and tell him how much he was going to accomplish and achieve as a grown man.
Clearly she is still a wonderful woman...and I'm certain with the field she was in, she doesn't have many patients who made it so she was doubly surprised to hear from him. 24087. judithathome - 5/16/2008 7:44:56 PM Oh god...everything has changed and the surgery has been moved up a day...to Wednesday. This has engendered all sorts of schedule changes for both me AND Keoni as he just got done moving things around for Thursday. It's looking as though I will be there for it alone for most of Wednesday since Keoni has to go out of town for two appointments but will be back that afternoon.
I think the cranial surgery lasts about 6 hours. Luckily, I got two really hard crossword puzzle books this weekend. And have a good book to take along.
This is actually much better because his surgeon is leaving the country for a conference on Friday...his assoiciates were going to do the follow-up after the Thursday surgery and evidently, he arranged it to do the surgery on Wednesday so he could be there the next day instead. This doctor is amazing. And he and Leslie have such a connection...it's a delight to see.
Yes, my son has been so fortunate to have absolutely superb doctors. 24088. wonkers2 - 5/16/2008 8:28:58 PM A pint of Jack Daniels or Jose Cuervo might be helpful as well. Good luck! 24089. arkymalarky - 5/16/2008 10:28:40 PM Wow, good luck to all of you, Judith. 24090. Ms. No - 5/17/2008 2:42:04 AM It's really wonderful to hear about such excellent physicians --- those who go the extra mile. I'm glad Leslie's in such good hands and I'll definitely be thinking of you both. 24091. judithathome - 5/17/2008 8:06:24 PM I am absolutely furious...my aunt, who has hooked up with this Conservative asshole from Oklahoma and is living the life of Riley on his frigging ranch just sent me a stupid Dittohead bullshit email about Muslims parading in England and it had all the doom and gloom Chicken Little "this could happen here if THEY win" crapola in it. I am definitely out of the will NOW because this is what I wrote her back (and I might add, this is the first I've heard from her since I sent out the email early this week about Leslie's upcoming surgery...nothing else from her like "hope everything goes okay", etc) Here's what I wrote:
The pictures from that email didn't come through and it's just as well....right now I'm a little more SCARED by the fact my son is having his skull removed on Wednesday and his brain operated on so that he can be a productive human being in this shitty world we live in. Sorry if the fact some people practicing their religion seems like the end of the world.
Frankly, I don't give a flying fuck what Muslims in England are doing. And to me, people shouldn't be judged by whether they are liberal or conservative or gay or straight...they are just people.
Sorry to be so harsh but I'm not concerned with politics right now...I'm more concerned with seeing Leslie through this ordeal he's going through. It may seem like no big deal but trust me, it certainly IS to me.
Oh, and I don't know what sort of computer program you have but you might be pleased to know that Bill Gates' Microsoft XP has a clever thing going...he's probably Liberal but try typing SHITTY into a document and hitting "spellchecker" and what comes up is SHITE...a very subliminal way of saying what they think of Arabs.
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