Dad's healing well, he's still got little or no energy, and he's in a quite a bit of pain, the meds are helping with that though. I don't think he realizes it but he's not coughing nearly as much as he was just last week. In fact... I think in the three days since his operation he's coughed MAYBE 5 times that I've seen.

I think everything is going ( Read more... )

Well, early this morning at around 7 I drove my dad into the Operative Day care for a biopsy on the bottom of his lung. I was dreading it all week. I think he was as well. This whole cancer thing... It's taken a lot out of this family and dad just doesn't seem to be getting that much better, when he does make progress something else comes up. This ( Read more... )

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This is an excerpt from an IM conversation a close personal friend of mine had with one Gordon Anderson.

The topics involved revolve primarily around a mutual friend who sexually assaulted while on the job. No rape occurred, it was, to be blunt, a simple reach around and grope.

The names of all people involved save Gordon Anderson have been changed ( Read more... )

So earlier this week, one of our crew from Bad Kitty was talking with my dad about the boat we were planning on building, A 22 foot racing/cruising trimaran, something dad and I could sail on our own, have fun and kick ass and such. >;3

The talk somehow shifted to this crew member's boat and how it'd been sitting on it's mooring for the past 7 ( Read more... )

As some of you may know, My Dad has been fighting cancer since Christmas of last year. It's been a long hard fight and sometimes it looked as if we were loosing. He hasn't beaten it yet but it's gotten better, they've switched to local radiation on the tumors that remain in his stomach and the ones in his lungs and throat are all but gone. He's ( Read more... )

Ok, so this past weekend, I was up in Kelowna visiting my good friend she_wolff . I was originally planning on riding my XT350 up, since, it's a 350... gets great mileage... and we could go dirt riding while I was there, good plan no? Well it was a great plan right up until I left my house I think... the ride up to Hope, my first stop on the ride up was ( Read more... )

As some of you may know, I've been complaining about my shoulder hurting for the past couple of days, I had thought I just pulled a muscle or something. Yesterday, while talking to friends, my shoulder was especially painful, getting up to take some aspirin I poured myself a glass of water and reached, like I normally do, for the medicine cabinet ( Read more... )

Mark the ones that apply to you. If you have more than 40, you are spoiled ( Read more... )

Yes, not to toot my own horn, but it is very true X3 ( Read more... )