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The photo above would be about 1942 in CA. It is my father and me. Or is that my father and I? I never can remember.
We are going to have a cool week in Dallas. I guess Darlene will sign for the house on Monday or Tuesday. Russell has appointment with the doctor about November 3rd. We will move about November 4th.
My friend Troy and his wife did have their baby. I have not heard from him. But here is an eMail that I got from his brother. I have edited part of the eMail.
"Yes, Davina had the baby Thursday afternoon at 4:47. Had to be put on oxygen, but everything seemed fine at first. Then sometime between Thursday night when we left and Friday morning, they discovered the baby had a virus of some kind. Not sure what, but have been treating it. He is now in ICU. Now they say they will do a spinal tap to pinpoint the cause. He was 7 pounds 5 ozs. when born, around 21 inches long. His name is Aiden James. Saw him Friday night in ICU and he is beautiful! He's eating pretty good, and right now seems to be doing well other than the virus. Ken was there Thursday night
to visit Davina and Troy. At that time, Aiden was in the regular nursery.
Davina is still having high blood pressure readings and low potassium levels. She is still in hospital as well. She goes down to feed baby in wheelchair to ICU."
Today was a long day. LaDawna took Darlene and Russ to the Oral Surgeon. After they left I found out that Hilary was planning on going. Hilary said she had been telling Dar for five days that she was going. It appears Darlene left about an hour early. Hilary was very upset. At the Oral surgeon LaDawna and Darlene waited outside. It appears that Russell was taken inside and given an IV and put to sleep. The doctor then, as I understand it, took out a bit of jaw bone and put in a "window", I would call it a shunt, and I am not sure what else he did. After Russ was awake the doctor made sure that LaDawna and Darlene saw the X-Ray. LaDawna was shocked by the X-Ray. Russ has a very big cyst and almost no jaw bones on that side. The jaw bone is thin like paper. The doctor make it clear that Russ not to chew anything. No chewing of food or anything. He is to be very careful not to break the jaw. The doctor gave them instructions. Russ was sent home. When he got home Aaron helped him into the house and upstairs. Russ started to throw up. He layed in Hilary's lap and she took care of him for awhile. I think her taking care of him and Darlene staying in the other room ..may have helped clear the air and help with the problem between the two of them. Russ has a bunch of medication to take. He has a mouth wash, pain medication and other medications. He also has a syringe to stick in the port/shunt and attempt to drain the cyst. Russ got sick again later. Jimmy went and rented two movies. Darlene, Jimmy, Russ and Hilary watched a movie. LaDawna, Aaron and I went to Wal-Mart and got some more medication for Russ. Later LaDawna and Aaron said goodby to us and went to their motel. Tomorrow early they start their trip back to CA. I felt sad and sorry to see them go. I hope we don't have to wait four or five more years to see them. LaDawna has taken a bunch of photos. She will send the film in and then scan the photos and her photos will be here online in a few weeks. I wish I had the money to buy her a good digital camera. She in very good at photograpy and only wants a good digital camera. Russell has an Odontogenic Keratocyst (OKC Cyst). They are very rare. I did not know that Russell could be so brave and good about something like this. I found out something that I did not know...Russell did some research on his own on the Internet. Before they went into see the doctor he told LaDawna somethings. She asked if the doctor told him that information and he said no he found it on the Internet. He was correct ...later the doctor told them those very same things. We have to wait for the doctor to get back with us on the lab test. I am sure each of us has our own fears about all of this. From what little searching I have done on the subject... I am worrying about infection and about fact that they can return. Also I am worrying about his maxillary sinus. We all have to pull for Russell. We got to make sure that he takes his medication and keeps doing everything that the doctor said to do.
Today LaDawna is going to take Jimmy to his doctor. His doctor will give him a one month supply of medication. That will save Jimmy from having to pay out $275.00 for the medication. Jimmydoes not have insurance right now.
LaDawna is going to take Russell to the doctor today. Darlene is going and she will pay out $1300.00 for the visit. I think Hilary is going to go with them. I think Hilary may have lost her job. I am not sure. She was late for her first day on the new job or maybe it was the second and they called a girl into replace her. She said the boss told her to be on time next time. She should have worked last night but she did not go to work. Hilary spends all her time in her room on the computer. We see very little of Hilary.
LaDawna and her husband were going to leave and return home, via car, to CA early today. But they are staying until late tonight. Darlene and Russell both asked them to stay.
Darlene and I are not talking. Well we exchange a few words. It is very basic. I was not here yesterday so I do not know if she closed on the house in Hillsboro or not. I do not think she did. I am not sure now ...what the current plans are.. She is not going to close today due to taking Russ to the doctor. I think she said that Monday was the last day to close or the intereste rates will change.
Jimmy said that after today...Russ is to go back to the doctor in 10 days for a check up. Jimmy said that Darlene plans to stay here until the check up.
Right now... I just do not know.. what is going to happen.
We are all worrying about Russell. He has to be put to sleep for this minor work..and you always worrying about something like that....
Darlene and Russell are sleeping. Hilary, Jimmy and I are all awake and at our computers. Jimmy is playing a game. Not sure if Hilary has her video going or what.. I do hear her doing laundry.
I think we will all be happy when this day is over.
Our long time friends in Kanas City had a baby. Jimmy called to check and Troy's dad said she had the baby. But then Troy's dad got a call on the other line and had to get off the line. So Jimmy did not get any details and Troy has not updated his Blog (website) in a couple of days. So right now .. we do not know any details.
LaDawna, Aaron, Russell and I went to Fort Worth. We went to the Spiral Diner at the Santa Fe Rail Market. They were listed, someplace, as one of the best vegan places to eat in the United States. So we all got something to eat. I had a baked potato. It was OK but it would have been better with meat on it. Aaron had the vegetable lasagna.
I was not impressed. But the food looked great.
I got a t-shirt for LaDawna and one for me. We also got a case of Dr Pepper. We got the real stuff. The Dr Pepper with Imperial PureCane Sugar from the place that has been doing it for 112 years. It is also in glass bottles. It is good stuff. The company is the Dublin company.
Then we walked over to the Tandy Center. Fort Worth looks like a nice town. Wide streets and brick side walks etc. Did not see a lot of people. Not much traffic. The Tandy Center looked like it was about to close up..no people.. little activity. No real reason to go to the place. They had a Radio Shack store in the place with two knock out looking women working there. But..it was not special. Hell it is the international HQ of Radio Shack. That place should be alive. They should have all sorts of things going on at that location.... Oh well..guess they don't need my advice.
Then it was back to Dallas and to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. The tickets for the four of us cost $39.00 and I was not impressed by the place. Of course I remember every deal and minute of those days. I saw it live on TV as it took place.
They, of course, do not allow any photography inside. So I can't show you anything.
I got Russ a hat.
Then we headed home. First to KFC to get something for Russ to take home. Then it was out to eat for the three of us. Then to the store and back home.
Later LaDawna and Aaron went to their motel.
There were two big buses from Missouri at the museum. I felt right at home.
By the way.. that place must take in a lot of money.
Every family has the "black sheep" of the family. I have to admit that my family is no different. My daughter, LaDawna that I love, and her husband (Aaron) are vegetarian*. I know it is shocking and most people would not admit it. But I am very open and honest with you.
LaDawna a vegetarian. Aaron is a "vegan" and also does not eat any animal products, including milk, cheese and other dairy items.
The shame of it. But family is family and we must love our family and try to understand.
I took Aaron out to eat at an Indian place. LaDawna was taking Darlene to the doctor.
I admit to loving meat. I am an American and I live in the Republic of Texas. I think it is a law here that you have to eat meat. In fact I do not think that vegetarians are allowed to live in the great state of Texas. They may visit as long as the follow the rule of not telling anyone about the sin and crime that they live.
LaDawna made vegetarian hot dogs the other day. I was the only honest family member and I told them that they were gross and that God ment for people to eat meat.
The next day she make some meat less food. I was the only honest person again.
Jimmy started, as he often does, a discussion of religion. Aaron and LaDawna have strong views on the subject. I do not believe in God but I had to jump in on the defense of God and religion. We should not have got into that discussion. Jimmy and I are willing to discuss the subject and have a give and take on the subject. Aaron has deep roots and strong feeling on the subject. You know they say never discuss politics or religion. Aaron and LaDawan left right after that and went to their motel.
Today we are going to see if Jimmy can get the doctor to give him a month of sample medication. If he can LaDawna will take him.
Then we plan to go to The Sixth Floor Museum. LaDawna wants to visit the site. I could live without visiting and thinking about that day in 1963. I remember all of those days. I remember my feelings. I know that the lost and depression that I felt on those days I never have felt since that time. I did not have those feelings when my father died and not when my mother died.
Then we plan to go to Reunion Tower. I plan to take my camea and will get some photos. I also am going to take my ham radio and see if I can make a contact from the top of the tower.
I think LaDawna has a surprise...she had a smile on her face and said something about some other place. God I hope it is not a vegetarian eating place.
This is a photo of me on the second month of the year and the sixth day of the month in the year of our Lord 1943. I was in CA USA.
Here is a photo with Hilary in it and the names of the people in the photo.
Today LaDawna is going to take Darlene and Jimmy to the doctor. I plan is to see a movie today.
Here is a photo of the family. Photo taken just minutes ago. October 21, 2003 at 7:19 pm.
LaDawna, and her husband, are Darlene went to BestBuy for a blender. Then a health food store. Then they came by and picked up Russell and are on their way to Wal-Mart. I hope they get Coke.
I went to the post office today for Darlene.
I have not seen much of Hilary. I have not seen anything of Hilary. Her monitor is going out.
I am doing a bit of work on a web site for a guy. He has setup a webcam. I am not working very hard on it.
I had a bunch of chat windows open today. I get burned out on chat very fast. I think one reason is that I can only do one thing at a time. I know other people can design web sites, write computer code and do stuff like that.. my poor brain can only handle one thing and ...not even handle one thing well.
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