I'm disgusted with the lies that the Romney Ryan ticket is spreading... how do people that are running for the highest office of our nation dare to speak such double talk and lies??!!! How are we going to survive the next few months?
On to other important stuff... Tracy is doing well... had an ultrasound and met with our GP and is due to see a GI specialist this Wed.... all prior to seeing Bruno next week on the 31st. He's back to normal without those horrible chest pains like bands around his abdomen. So, if he had gall stones don't you think he'd be in pain when he ate or at least sometimes? We're stumped but thankful that his toe is healing and he doesn't have those terrible pains. I'm looking forward to T being able to walk with us on the beach.
I'm doing my best to stay above the fray but there are times when all I can think of is a walk on the beach. Hoping to take a few days in September where I don't even answer the phone... Ha! Yah sure..
About Me
- AnneMarie
- Concerned Citizen and a Serial Entrepreneur wrapped in a progressive democratic soul longing for us all to get along.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
Today is Friday, August 10th
Thank you for all your good thoughts and healing white light!!!
Tracy is exhausted but coming around slowly but surely... our boy is getting stronger every day. The real issue is what are we going to do about the gleam we see in all these doctors' eyes when they perceive the puzzle... Is Tracy suffering from a gall stone? Is it his spleen? How many different doctors and tests can he suffer through?? I guess we'll see as we check off each specialty and sift through the data... I'm still saying that I think it's his body finally rejecting the chemo...
Gary & Deanna are on their way to New York and Jayne and Lou are on their way to Holland....Bon voyage my lovelies!!!
Sand St. closed last week. Martin Ave. will close by next Fri. to accommodate the expectant Mom -quite a bit earlier than planned. Seacliff Ave will also close next week and I'll be so glad to have been a part of securing a new home for Carol and Chuck... It's a wonderful thing!!!
Bless all our athletes!!! 2012 Olympics are great fun!!! I've totally enjoyed cheering USA on and this evening simultaneously the pre-season 49er win over the Vikings! Go USA! Go Niners!!
Tracy is exhausted but coming around slowly but surely... our boy is getting stronger every day. The real issue is what are we going to do about the gleam we see in all these doctors' eyes when they perceive the puzzle... Is Tracy suffering from a gall stone? Is it his spleen? How many different doctors and tests can he suffer through?? I guess we'll see as we check off each specialty and sift through the data... I'm still saying that I think it's his body finally rejecting the chemo...
Gary & Deanna are on their way to New York and Jayne and Lou are on their way to Holland....Bon voyage my lovelies!!!
Sand St. closed last week. Martin Ave. will close by next Fri. to accommodate the expectant Mom -quite a bit earlier than planned. Seacliff Ave will also close next week and I'll be so glad to have been a part of securing a new home for Carol and Chuck... It's a wonderful thing!!!
Bless all our athletes!!! 2012 Olympics are great fun!!! I've totally enjoyed cheering USA on and this evening simultaneously the pre-season 49er win over the Vikings! Go USA! Go Niners!!
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Today is Thursday, August 9th
Many times over the last few weeks I've thought about how blessed we are. I've even repeated to myself that I must take a snapshot to remember when times get tough. We've done a bit of traveling... went down to Paso Robles with Johnny & Shar and the gang.... had an absolute blast! Celebrated my b'day and Shar's, Pat's, Mo's and Judy's all Leo goddesses! Lots of fun events, lunches & dinners with family and friends and times to cherish.
Then, we did a repeat: a deja vu this morning. I'm not a rocket scientist but it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to notice that exactly one month ago almost to the moment... Tracy woke me @ 2:15AM this morning and said he needed to go to the emergency room. Now the same sequence had been repeated. T had Vincristine (chemo) on Fri. and took 5 days of Dexomethosone finishing yesterday. The exact same thing happened 4 weeks ago. T was immediately taken into the emergency room at Dominican altho' this time we knew it wasn't a heart attack... EKG, Cat scan, blood draws, blood pressure etc. After I realized how weird this repeat was, we talked through the uncanny coincidence with several doctors. T & I talked and after he was told once again that he couldn't even have water because of the possibility of surgery to remove his spleen; I made sure T realized that he could say he wasn't having surgery today... that gave him the opportunity to have multiple opinions rather than one. Tracy had had a 6 week break before his July treatment. Somehow I think there's more to it than coincidence. Maybe our boy's body is saying "NO MORE!!!!" I called Bruno and was able to connect him with the Dr. @ Dominican. Now they're saying that it could be a stone in his gall bladder and not his spleen.
Anyway, he's sleeping peacefully after finally getting some tea, scrambled eggs, toast & yogurt into his system this evening. He was feeling empty but relaxed after 2 morphine drips today and totally disoriented ( is it morning yet? ). He hadn't really slept at all until I rescued him and brought him home. Riley won't leave his daddy and neither will I...
We have an apt. with Suzy Nassralla ( our GP ) at 8:50 AM tomorrow.
Stay tuned and keep surrounding our guy with white light please....
Then, we did a repeat: a deja vu this morning. I'm not a rocket scientist but it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to notice that exactly one month ago almost to the moment... Tracy woke me @ 2:15AM this morning and said he needed to go to the emergency room. Now the same sequence had been repeated. T had Vincristine (chemo) on Fri. and took 5 days of Dexomethosone finishing yesterday. The exact same thing happened 4 weeks ago. T was immediately taken into the emergency room at Dominican altho' this time we knew it wasn't a heart attack... EKG, Cat scan, blood draws, blood pressure etc. After I realized how weird this repeat was, we talked through the uncanny coincidence with several doctors. T & I talked and after he was told once again that he couldn't even have water because of the possibility of surgery to remove his spleen; I made sure T realized that he could say he wasn't having surgery today... that gave him the opportunity to have multiple opinions rather than one. Tracy had had a 6 week break before his July treatment. Somehow I think there's more to it than coincidence. Maybe our boy's body is saying "NO MORE!!!!" I called Bruno and was able to connect him with the Dr. @ Dominican. Now they're saying that it could be a stone in his gall bladder and not his spleen.
Anyway, he's sleeping peacefully after finally getting some tea, scrambled eggs, toast & yogurt into his system this evening. He was feeling empty but relaxed after 2 morphine drips today and totally disoriented ( is it morning yet? ). He hadn't really slept at all until I rescued him and brought him home. Riley won't leave his daddy and neither will I...
We have an apt. with Suzy Nassralla ( our GP ) at 8:50 AM tomorrow.
Stay tuned and keep surrounding our guy with white light please....
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Today is Wednesday, July 18th
The excitement is mounting. Johnny & Shar are due in within a couple hours and our long awaited vacation begins. I can't believe it! It's been waaay too long and we're gonna cruise... sun and fun...
The only down side is leaving our Riley... but it's only for a couple days and Allen will take care of our boy.
T's been feeling kinda achy but I'm sure he'll rally too.
Enjoy!
The only down side is leaving our Riley... but it's only for a couple days and Allen will take care of our boy.
T's been feeling kinda achy but I'm sure he'll rally too.
Enjoy!
Friday, July 13, 2012
Today is Friday the 13th!!!!
It's my lucky day!!!! I love Freaky Friday and there's a reason.. it's always a great day and today was no different. Started out by deciding that I was too spaced out & stressed out to go to my board meeting... I stayed in bed! Made a slug station and wrote out my feelings about a deal and decided to listen to my intuition. Came to a decision about two deals actually and finally after talking to Tracy I began to come down... my rock...my core started gradually to even out... after the last 36 hours of compacted stress it was time to let go...
Our gentle giant is home!!!! Thank God!! Tracy was told that he shouldn't do anything strenuous, lift anything or take any chance that might cause his spleen to rupture while it heals. Now our guy has an excuse to do nothing but relax and we're gonna see that he does. Thank God for Friday, the 13th!!!
Both escrows on track and my new listing will hopefully hit the big time tomorrow... movie and photos taken by the love of my life, Tracy... HE'S BACK!!!!
Our gentle giant is home!!!! Thank God!! Tracy was told that he shouldn't do anything strenuous, lift anything or take any chance that might cause his spleen to rupture while it heals. Now our guy has an excuse to do nothing but relax and we're gonna see that he does. Thank God for Friday, the 13th!!!
Both escrows on track and my new listing will hopefully hit the big time tomorrow... movie and photos taken by the love of my life, Tracy... HE'S BACK!!!!
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Today is Thursday, July 12th
How quickly the time flies when you're having fun!
Tracy has been doing wonderfully even tho' last Fri. his counts remained at 2.2. Who knows? Maybe that's T's new normal.
Betsy just gave us an article from the front page of the NY Times about a young Dr. who contracted Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and after the same 2+ years of treatment, was in remission for several years and then, relapsed. After several subsequent failed courses of treatment & trauma, was able to sequence his DNA ( very long provocative story how he finally came to that ) & find the errant chromosome AND TREAT IT SUCCESSFULLY with a drug that's used for an entirely different cancer!!! There is hope! I intend to write the Dr. and plead for T to be included in the clinical trial.
Which brings us to the present. I rushed Tracy to the emergency room last night @ 3:00AM. He thought he was having a heart attack. He'd googled the symptoms as he paced the floor. When he finally woke me, I wanted to call 911 & he insisted on me, Parnelli or should I say Danica Patrick? rushing him to Dominican. You don't think twice. You grab whatever is beside the bed and throw some soft jeans & a tee on, grab glasses & go. They're paving Hiway 1 so I had to avoid the huge obstacles & stay the course all the while driving like a bat out of hell.
Emergency room crowded as it was, T was put into a room immediately to put him on monitors. Tracy has had several blood tests, 2 CAT scans, EKG & a consult with several Drs. plus Bruno, his Stanford Hematologist, has consulted with the Drs. here. They ruled out the heart attack & thought at first it was an embolism in the lungs, but no...there's blood surrounding his spleen.. so, he's being admitted to monitor his spleen. How enlarged is it? Does it call for surgery? Tracy's pretty adamantly opposed to a splenectomy. Although Riley survived & thrived, Tracy's Dad didn't live to tell about his.
So while we awaited the word, I climbed into his gurney, to cuddle while we tried to catch a few zzzz's. Surprised the hell out of any visitors to our emergency room lair cause we made that skinny bed that forces T's long legs to hang off, comfort us both. So another round of consultations while we figure out what's best for our gentle giant.
Please keep us both in your prayers.
Tracy has been doing wonderfully even tho' last Fri. his counts remained at 2.2. Who knows? Maybe that's T's new normal.
Betsy just gave us an article from the front page of the NY Times about a young Dr. who contracted Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and after the same 2+ years of treatment, was in remission for several years and then, relapsed. After several subsequent failed courses of treatment & trauma, was able to sequence his DNA ( very long provocative story how he finally came to that ) & find the errant chromosome AND TREAT IT SUCCESSFULLY with a drug that's used for an entirely different cancer!!! There is hope! I intend to write the Dr. and plead for T to be included in the clinical trial.
Which brings us to the present. I rushed Tracy to the emergency room last night @ 3:00AM. He thought he was having a heart attack. He'd googled the symptoms as he paced the floor. When he finally woke me, I wanted to call 911 & he insisted on me, Parnelli or should I say Danica Patrick? rushing him to Dominican. You don't think twice. You grab whatever is beside the bed and throw some soft jeans & a tee on, grab glasses & go. They're paving Hiway 1 so I had to avoid the huge obstacles & stay the course all the while driving like a bat out of hell.
Emergency room crowded as it was, T was put into a room immediately to put him on monitors. Tracy has had several blood tests, 2 CAT scans, EKG & a consult with several Drs. plus Bruno, his Stanford Hematologist, has consulted with the Drs. here. They ruled out the heart attack & thought at first it was an embolism in the lungs, but no...there's blood surrounding his spleen.. so, he's being admitted to monitor his spleen. How enlarged is it? Does it call for surgery? Tracy's pretty adamantly opposed to a splenectomy. Although Riley survived & thrived, Tracy's Dad didn't live to tell about his.
So while we awaited the word, I climbed into his gurney, to cuddle while we tried to catch a few zzzz's. Surprised the hell out of any visitors to our emergency room lair cause we made that skinny bed that forces T's long legs to hang off, comfort us both. So another round of consultations while we figure out what's best for our gentle giant.
Please keep us both in your prayers.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Today is Friday, June 29th 2012
Wow! Life is truly amazing here on the Central Coast! As we walked each morning on the beach this week, we saw children learning how to surf and dolphins frolicking and even some sea lions breaking the surface to see what all the commotion was about. The spectacle forces me to count my blessings cause I am witness to the bounty... and the outstanding weather!!!
And oh, what a relief yesterday's Supreme Court decision on Obamacare was!!! I had to double-check my hearing of the decision on NPR... Wow! What a shocker that was! Chief Justice Roberts was the decider!!! Now if only Obama's communications folks can get the real down to earth message out...
this country can get back to the business at hand!
Speaking of business... 1028 Jungfrau Court finally closed today and Lisa Cardoza saved the day yet again! Carol is now in contract on 781 Seacliff Drive and lots of activity on 200 Sand St.
Life is good! Tracy is showing his incredible talent for sculpture and I'm enjoying playing with clay...
Our God child Lea came to visit for a few days with an Australian grad student, Alicia ( she's studying marine biology) that she'd met in Perth on her year abroad. Two vegetarians foraging their way with more energy than most... Monday they kayaked in Elkhorn Slough, came home to shower and then, went to enjoy the rides at the Boardwalk... loaded Lea up with some food (what do you feed a vegetarian? wine, pasta & big salad) a bluetooth earpiece, a little cash and a lot of love... and hopefully lots of good memories...
All is well!
And oh, what a relief yesterday's Supreme Court decision on Obamacare was!!! I had to double-check my hearing of the decision on NPR... Wow! What a shocker that was! Chief Justice Roberts was the decider!!! Now if only Obama's communications folks can get the real down to earth message out...
this country can get back to the business at hand!
Speaking of business... 1028 Jungfrau Court finally closed today and Lisa Cardoza saved the day yet again! Carol is now in contract on 781 Seacliff Drive and lots of activity on 200 Sand St.
Life is good! Tracy is showing his incredible talent for sculpture and I'm enjoying playing with clay...
Our God child Lea came to visit for a few days with an Australian grad student, Alicia ( she's studying marine biology) that she'd met in Perth on her year abroad. Two vegetarians foraging their way with more energy than most... Monday they kayaked in Elkhorn Slough, came home to shower and then, went to enjoy the rides at the Boardwalk... loaded Lea up with some food (what do you feed a vegetarian? wine, pasta & big salad) a bluetooth earpiece, a little cash and a lot of love... and hopefully lots of good memories...
All is well!
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