Thanks for the Awards!!

I have received some very nice awards that I need to pass out to my blogging friends!



This award is from Mary over at Mary's Writing Nook Thank you Mary for a lovely award! I appreciate your thoughtfulness! If you have never been over there please take time to visit her blog. She is a dear lady who has a wonderful gift of writing her thoughts down .It is easy to read and interesting too!!She is very good about taking photos for us to enjoy.

This award is from Nancy over at Nancy's Nonsense ! I have just recently become acquainted with Nancy! She is a delight! She is a animal lover for sure! Please visit her blog and see her beautiful Cats!! Thank you Nancy for these two great awards!This award is from my friend Renie from Renie Burghardt's World and from Nancy too!

Thank you ladies so much for thinking of me! Renie lives in Missouri down in the Ozarks and has a wonderful blog! She has beautiful pictures of the wild life in her area.

I would like for all of you who read my blog to please feel free to take these awards and put them on your side bar!! I just can't choose a few bloggers any more so I am giving this to all of you!!!

Our weather man said that all of down pour last night and today is from the remnants of Dolly!! It has rained and rained here!!! The weather is to turn really hot by the weekend!!

A Day Trip to HA HA Tonka State Park

Karen Called yesterday morning and as she was talking to Kelly I heard Kelly say "That not to far of a drive" I was on that like a duck on June bug!!! I said "Where are you going" "Who is going"? Can Nancy and me go too!!! The answer to this was Yes!! After this past month or so with Nancy health so poor we were all ready for a day or FUN!! So we took off for a day down in the Ozarks!! I have a bunch of pictures here but none of Karen who doesn't want any of her put on my blog until she loses 12 more pounds and we can publish a before and after picture. She has lost 88 pounds so far!!! I am so proud of her.
It was a very fun day but very very HOT! We drove through Osage Beach after our picnic. which has a huge outlet mall and then on to Bagnell Dam. We were home by 10:00.

Kelly on the trail

Grams and Nancy on the trail which by the
way was very handicap assessable!

The trail was paved and easy to walk on!! It was uphill to the

castle but comming down was a lot easier!!

Grams entering the trail to the castle

Nancy entering the trail to the castle

The view on the trail !

Oops! The tower after we saw the castle

The castle ruins

A gentleman from Kansas City built this years ago for

a place to come and relax from the strains of his business!

Karen said the sign said they used mule packs to bring up the stone

Kelly climbing at one of the sites

Looking down into it

Kelly at the bottom

At our picnic site at the Lake of the Ozark State Park

The girls took this photo of a buzzard in the tree!

Kelly and Grams

Nancy and Grams before our picnic! We were starting to cool off

Kelly grilling for us!

Yum! We had a great Day!!

More good news!

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More good news! I heard from the lab yesterday afternoon and Nancy's report was good. The blood count was up again! Praise God! She is starting to feel much better.

I hope everyone along the gulf coast is safe and sound after taking a beating from Dolly. I just heard on the news that up by San Antonia and around there it was bringing in much needed rain for their area. But down by Brownsville's and that area it is flooding. Our grass is still growing and it is green! By the end of July and the first of August most years it is starting to turn brown. Kelly was able to get it mowed yesterday.

No more trips to KU Medical Center!!

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I was so pleased to hear from KU this morning. Nancy's nurse said that she had the lab report back from the day we were there on the 14th. Good news! Nancy's B cells have replenished their selves and this means the study is over and no more trips over to KU Med Center!! What a blessing this will be!!

We started this in Oct. of 2006! We have gone over to KU every month for 18 months except when we went every other week while she was getting the chemo.

This is so great that her B cells have come back! I am so Thankful for this!! Thanks for your prayers!!

We do have lab work over at the Kansas City Cancer Center this week to see if her blood count is still going up. All of her other Dr.'s are not more then 25 minutes away at the most so we think this is great!! In fact they are all in a row on Hwy 291 except for two of them who are just a couple of blocks off of the Hwy. They are several miles apart, but nothing like driving way over to KU.

It is very hot here today! I think it is where most of us live! Good "ole" summer time!! I am also thankful for our AC!! This is turning into a Thankful Thursday list!! But I am so thankful every day for God's Blessings!!!

A Nice Award and the Sun Glasses test

Thanks to Mary and Anni for a nice award! If you haven't been over to their blogs you have missed a treat!!
If you gave me an award and I didn't post it, please forgive me! I got behind on all of this while Nancy's has been so ill. OR could it be that I don't remember as good as I used too!!

If you would like to have this award please feel free to take it and put it on your side bar!

What your sunglasses say about you

You are spontaneous, open minded, and optimistic. You are very youthful and free wheeling, no matter what your age happens to be. You need to be shaded from the darker, more depressing aspects of life. You feel sunniest when everyone around you is up for a good time.

THE Sunglasses Test

I thought this one looked fun!! So I did it!! Always love doing these!

I hope everyone is staying cool and your AC is working ! Not much going on today! Maybe that is a good thing!

KU day again! Glo said Hello!

Yesterday was Nancy's day to go over to K.U. Med Center for her 3 month check up. Carrie was able to take us up to Kansas City and over to KU. When we got there the parking garage was packed out and it took her a long time to find parking! It would have helped I am sure if I had given her our wheel chair tag!!! She had let us off at the door and I discovered we had the tag after we sat down to wait on her!! She said it was such a mess it wouldn't have helped one bit!

We won't know for a few days if Nancy's B cells have replenished their selves. If they have we are finished with this study if not we go back in Oct.

After we were finished with the Dr's visit Carrie took Nancy and me out to eat at the Cracker Barrel. It is one of my favorite places to eat! Their cooked down green beans are just like my Mother made!

Carrie had to leave for home this morning and it always sad to say Good-Bye. But it is not nearly as hard as it was 30 years ago!! With E-mails and special prices on phone plans it is so much easier!!!

I had an E-mail today from our friend Glo. She said to tell you all that her computer is still very sick! It sounds horrible! She is wanting to be able to visit every one and leave a comment. I think she can read your blog but can't leave comments.

Sister Linda does have a broken bone in her knee. She said her pet name for her sister is Tissy Lou and Glo's pet name is Tissy Mae!! This is what Glo had to say about Tissy Lou.

The good news is that she doesn't have to have surgery, but will be off work until the middle of Sept. If she doesn't get back then, she will lose her job & seniority(rules of the nursing home where she works.) Good has come out of all this Tissy is learning patience's and being a very good patient. I'm so proud of her!

I can tell you for sure that Glo would love for you to add Linda to your prayer list! Thanks!!

Blogthings time again!

Last year we were able to take a road trip to the Smoky's mountains and to the beach. I am so happy we were able to do this while Nancy was feeling better! and gas was Not 4.00 a gallon!
The picture below is one taken at Destin Fl! It has most beautiful sand! It looked like sugar.
I have done one of the blogthing again! You all know I love doing these!! I got behind on them in the past few weeks! Today Nancy has gone back to bed, Karen is working from home, Kelly is at work and Carrie will be down later in the afternoon! So I took advantage of a few minute to post!!

The Road Trip of Your Life

You see life as precious and special. Heritage and family are very important to you. You live life at a fairly leisurely pace. You take time to enjoy the sweeter parts of life, even when you're busy. You're willing to take a few risks in life. You may not take the road no one travels, but you're happy to take the road less traveled. You are able to find a fairly healthy balance between work and play. You work when you need to, but you never let yourself burn out. In another life, you could have been a professional athlete. You have a natural knack for competitions.

The Road Trip Test

Happy Birthday, Jacob!!

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Happy Birthday to my Grandson, Jacob!! This picture was taken at Christmas. Jake will be a junior at Central Missouri State U. this fall. He is studying to be a coach.
In the fall Karen and Kelly go down to his school on game day and watch the game and watch Jake standing on the sidelines with the rest of the coaches!! Bill and Becky and Sarah come up from where they live and they have a fun Day!!
I would love to get to go to one of these college games! When he was in High School and Nancy was not so sick we were able to go to his games at his High School from time to time. Karen and Kelly went to almost every one of them.



Today Carrie and some friends are going to the Nelson Art Gallery for the afternoon. Carrie 's Mother in law, Lorita is in the area for a wedding and she was able to see her.
Lorita is leaving Tuesday for Africa for her 10 or 11th missions trip! Lorita is 73 and still going strong!!! She stays for about 3 or 4 months and helps out with the orphans, and all the others kids. She needs prayer for safety while she is travels from one place to the other.

I hope you have a very nice Birthday Jake!! Love you Bunches!!

Nancy's report good and Glo's computer crashes!!!

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Glo just called me and wanted me to let you know that the last time she got on her computer it Crashed! One of their friends is going to work on it but he is moving this week. So it will be a little while before he can get to it. Glo is my dear friend who only lives about 30 miles from me! She has a great blog over at Young at Heart. She is concerned about her sister Linda who got up on a chair to fix a light and then climbed on the table and the table fell over and she was hurt! They will know next Monday if she needs surgery. She said her sister is always telling her to be very careful and then her sister wasn't!! Please remember her in prayer.

Speaking of prayer!!! Thanks to all of you for your many prayers for Nancy! We were over at the lab yesterday and the report came back that her blood count is looking good! Praise God! I can't tell you how much I appreciate your prayers for her.

The Day after the Fourth!

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I have a minute before every one comes over to my house this afternoon. Nancy's pleurisy is a little better, she is using her oxygen each night and this should help a lot.She also is using her device for breathing into every day. It hurts so she doesn't like doing it much!

She sat in the car last night while we were at the park watching the fireworks. She did fine. She has never liked hearing the big booms of the fireworks. Even when she was just little I had to sit in the house with her on my lap and we watched them out the window together. She got a little better about this as she grew older and would love to do sparklers and parachutes! She likes the picnicking part the best and who can blame her for that!!!

Carrie drove in just after the last big boom of the grand finale!! We were all so tickled to see her!!

We went over to Jeremy (Jey) and Sofia house,they have moved down to our town and she got to see her new grandson!! Oh, how sweet that was! She thought the other two grandkids has grown up so much since Christmas!!!

I have a new post Just scroll Down!

I have a new post but I had put some of it in a draft and it published under my last post and I don't know how to get it on top of the old one!! SO please scroll on down to read the new one!! Thanks

Time for a Bloggy Break!!

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I am thinking it is time for me to take a bloggy break! With Nancy health not as good as it was this past year, I am finding it harder each day to post and go out and read your posts and leave comments. I will try from time to time to get out and read your posts but if I don't leave a comment know I still enjoyed reading about what you are up too!!!
Nancy needs her blood sugar checked several times a day and I have to give her 6 six shots a day!
We have to have lab work every other week and Dr's visits so often that it has been difficult to be able to blog.
Please continue to keep Nancy and me in your prayers!! I will miss your daily visits!!
I will try to do one more post on the Fourth of July!!

Happy Fourth of July!!!

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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. Erma Bombeck

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! Thomas Jefferson

Do you think I have enough Icon's up above for the Fourth!! I picked out a couple and couldn't stop!!
It turned out that it was a good thing I took a little break! But I have missed you all !!

Nancy's side started hurting a week ago tomorrow and we took her to the Dr on Tuesday, who thought she had a little pneumonia and he sent us to the specialist yesterday. Dr. Clark said Nancy didn't have pneumonia she has pleurisy instead. He said to continue her oxygen at night. He also wanted her to have some kind of a deal with a little ball in it that she blows into a container and tries to get the ball to the top. He said she is taking shallow breaths. She is to continue on her antibiotics that the our Dr gave her.

I want to Thank every one who has lifted us to our Heavenly Father in Prayer! I appreciate your taking time to pray for her and for me too!!


We didn't have electricity last night from about 8:30 until about 2:00 in the morning. It never got to hot in the house! Nancy has a Smiley Face lamp thing (you press the light on the smiley face and it comes on) and we had batteries!! I think my Grand daughter Sarah gave her this, one year for her birthday! It sure came in handy because when we did go to bed she didn't flip out, we just left it on until the lights came back on!! Sarah you did good!!!
The reason the lights went out was because we had a terrible storm last night!! I am happy to say we don't have to go to any Dr for a week!!
My daughter Carrie is on her way here from Guadalajara Mexico where she lives and is a missionary. I am so looking forward to seeing her again!! She always goes to Sonic and gets Nancy the Big Route 44 drinks she loves!! She should be here tomorrow evening for our town's fire works display!

I don't know what other plans we have so far but I am sure it will involve having some good food sometime tomorrow!!
I hope you all have a very SAFE and Happy Fourth!!!!

Old Historic Building burns to the ground!

We had a fire in our town this week. The building was 96 years old and was owned by the oddfellows. It had been a restaurant, flower shop, liquor store, and a flea market and I don't know what else! No one was hurt but it destroyed a lot of history. Next door is the bank and it was not damaged at all. The building is now all rubble.

Nancy had more lab work done yesterday and I haven't heard back what the report said this time. She has to go every two weeks and have lab work done. She will see this Doctor in August and her lupus Doctor in Lee's Summit in August also. We see her KU lupus Doctor in July! I have it all written down or I would never be able to get it straight!
Thanks for all the Happy Birthday Wishes ! She had a lovely Birthday and she had a Big time at her Party!!

Happy Birthday to Nancy and Kevin's Birthday Pictures!

Grams and baby Marcello and Nancy

Grams and three of Her Great- grand kids!!!

Sofia, Kevin, Valerie, Jeremy, and Baby Marcello

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Tomorrow June 25th will be Nancy's 46th Birthday!! So Happy Birthday Dear Nancy!!! We have to go see her hematologists tomorrow morning. This is the only time they could work her in and she is having a fit about this!! We are having a party for her in the evening with chocolate cake and chocolate ice cream!! This is what she wanted!!

Kelly just took her down to the beauty shop for a hair cut and she was excited about that!!! You can tell by her picture above that she is in need of one

Kevin's Birthday Cake


Kevin had a big time at his party on Sunday!! He is so sweet and cute!!!

Happy First Birthday to my Great Grandson Kevin

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Happy Birthday to Kevin!! He will be one years old on June 22nd!! If Nancy is up to it we will go to his party. Kelly will take the camera so we can get some pictures of Kevin, Valerie, and the new baby. I will then try to post them later on in the week.

We had Nancy over to her lupus Dr. yesterday and he did more blood work. She is on prednsone which makes her blood sugars go up. She now gets 6 insulin shots a day. This is one of the reasons I haven't been out visiting very much since we got home!! I am watching my blood sugars also and my cholesterol level and trying to eat more healthy! I have to call Nancy's hematologists on Monday to set up an appointment with her.

Molly is home and doing better, she is eating and drinking and waging her tail! This is good.

Nancy is home from the Hospital! Yea!!

Hi, Nancy was able to come home last night at 9:00. She has wanted to come home since Sunday!! Nancy's blood count was at 9.2 yesterday and this was good news. She is taking prednsone to make the red blood cells stop attacking their selves. We are to go to her Doctor of Rheumatology tomorrow for a follow up. This is the same Doctor we went to for 3 and 1/2 years until he sent us over to another Doctor of Rheumatology at Kansas University Medical Center. Now we will be going to both Dr's for a while.

Nancy has (systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE) She was diagnosed with this in 2003 when it attacked her spleen and caused her blood platelets to drop so low. At that time they did a bone marrow biopsy and that is when they found out it wasn't cancer but lupus. Right now her bone marrow is not making enough red blood cells to keep up with the ones that are destroying her good ones. That is where the Prednsone comes in to help stop this! This is me trying to explain all of her illness so,
If you would like to read more about lupus you may go Here . They can tell you better then I can!!
Thank you so much for your prayers and your concern for her. I sure could feel them while I sat up at the hospital. I was there yesterday from 11:00 to 8:30 and most days, something like that ! It was great you were praying for both of us. I had a bad day on Sunday at the hospital when my blood sugar levels drop so low and I had an insulin reaction 2 times!! This was hard and I came home and went to bed and the girls sat with her for the evening!!
Something really nice while we were there. Her chemo nurse from 2005, who just loves Nancy brought in 2 containers of cup cakes for her to past out to all her visitors and nurses!!

It was cute when one of the nurses said, "Nancy save me this cupcake and I will come back and get it later". Ok, Nancy took this really serious and when anyone walked in her room she said, " Don't eat the white cupcake!! That is Laura's cupcake!! Every one laughed and said, All right then, we sure won't take that one!!!!
All the nurses where so good to her!!
Day before yesterday Kelly's dog Molly got SO sick and this is what was wrong!!





Molly and her favorite toy!!

Molly has Leptospirosis and one sick puppy. She won't eat or drink anything which is not like her at all! Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection that causes kidney failure and liver disease. It is very common during wet humid conditions. It is transmitted by the urine of an infected animal, and is contagious as long as it is still moist. So, we think the other night when we couldn't get Molly to come into the house that there was an infected raccoon or opossum in the yard and she got into its urine. It's treated with penicillin and she will be coming home tomorrow. So, I didn't kill my dog when I walked her the other day. What a relief!



This is what Kelly wrote to a friend and I copied and pasted it on my post. Molly is at the vets in the hospital and should come home tomorrow. We didn't have enough to worry about so now we have the dog that is sick!!! Isn't this how life goes!!! Well, God get us through it all!!

Update on Nancy

Thanks to Glo and Annie for telling all my blogging friends that Nancy got her blood transfusion last night. I tried to, but blogger wouldn't let me! Her lips were looking pink again and she was feeling a little better.

I was at the hospital in time to talk to her hematologists (Thank you Anni for telling me how to say and spell this!! ) Nancy's immune systems is attacking her good cells again and she has hemolytic anemia. It all stems from her LUPUS. The treatment will be perisone for the time being. The dental work is on hold for now.

The last time in 2003 it attacked her blood platelets, they fixed this and then it attacked her lungs in fall of 2004. This is when we had 6 months of chemo therapy in 2005. The lungs are better and now it has attacked her blood again.

Thanks to you all for your prayers!!! I sure could feel them today!! I won't post until later in the week. I will be going back and forth to the hospital each day! You know what, this wears you out more then a full days work!!
Thanks again for being so caring.

Nancy is in the Hospital

Just a quick note to tell my blogging friends to please pray for Nancy. Yesterday she was at the Dr.'s and she also had lab work. This morning at 6:00 our Doctor called and said that the lab had called him at 4:00 and Nancy's blood count was very low.

He wanted us up at the hospital as soon as possible. They have run some test today and took blood 2 or 3 times and when it was sent to the blood bank for a match there wasn't any so far. The antigens in her blood are not matching any in the blood bank so far.

Of course they are still working on getting this. They will give her a transfusion when they do match sometime tonight they think.

They called in a specialist who is a blood Dr. I can't say or spell what she is, starts with a H. I am thinking it is her lupus again. The lupus attacks her organs ,thinking it is helping, Please pray for her and me too. Thanks so much. I will be going up there early in the morning. I will try to update this tomorrow if I can.

3 Doctors appointment this week!! Not a good report at one appoitment

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I haven't posted since last Sunday!! This has been the week we have a bunch of Dr's appointments. I had my 3 month check up for my blood sugars on Tuesday. My blood sugars were up just a little but the bad news happened when I complained about my leg/knee hurting so bad.

Most of you know I fell in 2003 and shattered my knee and I have a plate, six screws, and filler in it. I also did bad things to my back at that time too.

OK, this is what happened now! Kelly has been out at her friends home in the country house/dog sitting since June 4th. I wanted to be helpful while she was gone and I grabbed the vacuum cleaner on Friday and lifted it up and over cords and tubing for Nancy's oxygen and I must have strained my leg above my knee.

So I asked the Dr. to Please take a ex-ray of upper leg and could he take one of my knee too, it hurts so bad all the time. Well, he did but it looks like I just strained my leg, but he did put a cortisone shot in my knee. Ouch!

This has really helped!! First time in 5 years I don't have pain in my knee!!!

Now for the bad news. One of my arteries showed up in the ex- ray and it was clogged. The Doctor said that if one artery is clogged like this more will be in different parts of your body. This can effect your heart, brain, legs, etc ! You all know how bad this could be.

I do take strong cholesterol medicine and my readings for the last 6 months have been good. I take Nancy to see the same Doctor in the morning and I will be asking him what more to do. I had lost 3 pounds which is better then gaining 3 pounds!!

Yesterday, was Nancy's turned to go see her psychiatrist over at Lee's Summit and she had a good report. Just continue on her meds. We don't have to go see him until December!!!

Next week we go back to her Dr. that sent us over to Kansas University Medical Center. We have to go back over to KU in July. As soon as her B cells replenished their selves we don't have to go back over to KU!! I would love prayer that this would happen for Nancy! For me to do all I can to get my arteries unclogged. I am eating oatmeal a lot, to help. Thanks for all your prayers and Thanks to Mary over at Mary's Writing Nook for asking for prayer for me! I appreciate you all!

I just was over at Flip Flop Flooize and she asked for prayer for me too!! Bloggers are the Best!