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Monday, May 16, 2005

Crawling Back onto the Radar Screen and Blogit Charts

Temple called me on the telephone and feared to find me dead or kidnapped and missing forever. I surprised her by answering the telephone in a cheery manner and talking to her for awhile, but not long enough. The conversation was just getting toasty warm, when I remembered my granddaughter, this weekend’s charge. I had to run off across the city to my granddaughter's school, at the end of her school day, to pick her up. As it was, I was ten minutes late, but not late enough to trigger her panic... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Well, well, well...........

Well, hurray for anti-depressants. I know that they are working and doing good in my life, because today I sang to my old dog again. This time, I sang “Don’t Rock the Boat, Baby”, while rocking her on her garden swing sofa. And the Wellbutrin, I believe, caused me to sing as in olden days. I sang it first as a Polish Elvis impersonator, then as a Bosnian opera singer, then as the entire Mormon Tabernacle Choir and invited the birds to join me. I have not been this insane in years and have not... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 25, 2005

I'm Singing in the Rain Again, cuz it just Won't Stop Rainin'

Whenever I think that I write the story of my life, I find that it writes me. Mom, it turns out, had no heart damage, and the tests all showed a strong and good heart. Her blood, however, showed a lack of potassium, sufficient to trigger angina. So, we are busy shoving bananas down her throat now that she’s home. Actually, we are investigating some way to keep her potassium up without counting on her to eat those bananas, etc. We also found and removed 3 viruses from her computer. And, the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

La Vida Y La Muerte

Life and death are being discussed too much in Abuelita’s life lately. I’ve had to face my own mortality and that of others recently and am unwilling to do so, I find. Like all good Americans, I refuse to embrace the concept and prefer to be terribly surprised if anything untoward should happen in my vicinity. My African son, Franck, has chosen to pass up the scary deeper lung biopsy and has chosen a medication, Diflucan, instead. It should clear up his fungal infection, if anything will and it... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 17, 2005

I am a Penta Grandma, Abuelita V and counting.

My fifth grandchild, a lovely mullet and brunette haired boy named Rowan was born yesterday on the 16th. A large 8 pounds and 2.4 ounces and 'longish'. Hurray!!! I want him here, in my arms, now and forever. Sigh........cough, cough, sniffle, honk. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

53 more photos of the O'Odham Pow Wow

I reduced them all to 5x7 size and just posted them on my mirror blog (see the link to the right of this post, labelled My Mirror Blog) as it allows me to post hundreds of photos and runs a fast slide show of them. I took over 200 photos, but haven't the time to resize them all as my Batch Adjuster isn't co-operating. So, go see more swirling dancers and lovely people. I promise to take my better camera next year and to take two or three days of photos and to set the photo quality at its... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 13, 2005

Hot Sunny Indian Pow Wow Afternoon, W:aK Pow Wow 2005

My daughter drove the boys and I drove the girls. We were all fairly subdued, with red raw throats or chests full of surpressed coughs, or mild fevers. Not sure, could have been the 89+ degrees in the sun and not a fever at all. We took water and umbrellas. I learned something last year, even though it was chilly and rainy last year, the sun still cooked people up on the bleachers. I didn't do my enthusiastic tour guide imitation this year, as I couldn't talk without coughing my guts out. So, I... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Things are Looking UP !!!

Franck is out of the hell hole but not out of the woods. His lab tests so far reveal that it is not a cancer growing in his lungs. This is heaven to me. The bad news is that it remains a mystery; what is growing there anyway? It appears to be fungal or microbial in nature, but lab cultures have not finished growing and some may take weeks to grow. So, we must relax some and just go with the flow. It sounded like the word ‘granyalomatis’ or some closer spelling. The cells are lining up in this... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 7, 2005

Oh, my Togolese Co-Mother, May the Gods be Kind to Us

I took my host son from Togo to have a bronchoscopy today at the best hospital in town and one of the best in the country. He has had a cough for seven months and no one in the student services clinic was getting anything done about it at the university. I pushed for today's biopsies and testing, at his mother's insistence. The doctor said that she found strange growths inside his bronchial tubes, or whatever they are called. Those hoses running and branching off into your lungs. She showed us... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 6, 2005

Singing and Driving in the Rain............

I had carefully researched the ten things that we might do today, the grandchildren and I. It was my birthday and we were to spend the day and night together. Everything that I had planned was to be free of charge. There was an exhibit of shoes of fallen soldiers from Iraq on display at Armory Park, except that it was rained out. There was a mini street fair on Fourth Avenue, our hippie street, but it was rained out. We were to take the dogs to the Dog Park, but it was raining, pouring and... Sign in to see full entry.

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When your immediate family has people from just about every race and religion and political belief, a world view becomes the only one open and available to you or your brain melts, your heart explodes and you develop a tic in one eye while you stutter about America First and Best and Only.It's a big and human being filled world out there. I'm only one temporary inhabitant of it.

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