I always forget how much impact lake effect can have on our winter weather. The past couple years, Rochester has been lucky in that we haven't had a major lake effect enhanced storm. So much for that. The updated snow totals after this is over have my area of town with 16 to 20 inches of snow. Based on what we have so far, over 20 is likely. right ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone for the well wishes and good thoughts. Gram's service was today. She would have loved it. She was extremely Catholic (had 8 kids, plus another three miscarriages) and kept at my grandfather for most of their 58 year marriage until he finally converted about 40 or 50 years into it. My mom raised the bro and I Catholic and had us ( Read more... )

My grandma passed away very early this morning. While we knew it was coming, it sure doesn't make it any easier. At least she's at peace now. It's been a rough few years for her.

Here she is with 6 of her 8 crazy kids.
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The parents are in their house, but still lots of issues and new problems cropping up. The biggest is my mom is not doing well with her knee and shoulders, which she has needed surgery on for over a year. But in order to have surgery, they need to have someone that can stay with my dad 24/7 for the duration of mom's recovery. Right now, the VA isn' ( Read more... )

One more week of the crazy and then life will finally settle down a bit. My parents close on their house tomorrow, with moving day next Tuesday. Other than meaning we'll be still unpacking for Thanksgiving, the timing works out great. I'm shopping tomorrow night for all the food needed to make 6 or 7 crock pot meals, plus all the last minute stuff ( Read more... )

I finally feel like I've gotten most of my energy back. This week, I think I only took two short naps at lunch. Then today, I did three hours of running around shopping, then came home and planted a bunch of bulbs, then mowed the lawn. Just a couple of weeks ago, the shopping would have been followed by a three hour nap! So happy to be getting back ( Read more... )

I'm about 6 weeks post surgery and down 50 pounds. I can definitely tell through my clothes, but don't really notice the difference when I look in the mirror. I'll take it though! I'm all recovered with the incisions, but wow, is the tiredness hanging on. The surgeons post op booklet says it can last 8 weeks plus, and I have a feeling I'll be in ( Read more... )

Gastric bypass surgery went great. It was last Wednesday, July 31.

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So, this past week or so has been pretty nuts. I had my preop testing and thought I was all set for surgery. Until I got a call from my primary doc's nurse, telling me there was an abnormality in my EKG. It showed what is called a left bundle branch blockage. The mayo clinic describes it as: Bundle branch block is a condition in which there's a ( Read more... )

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