It was Junior Prom Time

For C this past weekend. Being reasonable parents, we took many pictures of C. All of the pictures were taken at the Duke Gardens on the campus of Duke University. There were sooooooo many people there taking pictures for various proms that it was difficult to keep other people from showing up in the pictures.

C was a good sport because I took 17 pictures of her in various locations and backgrounds.













C went with a group of 10 students from her school. They went to dinner at Carrabba's, then off to the prom. They had to be back on campus at 1:30AM unless they had parental permission to stay in a hotel. There was a 2AM breakfast catered in by a local restaurant for all the students. As is typical for proms, C made a full night of it by viewing movies, etc until 5 AM.

All in all, C said it was fun and I am glad she went.

Another one gone

I just learned of the passing of my Aunt N from Minnesota in February. She was 84. While my family and hers were never super close because of them being in MN, she and Uncle D were fun people to be around, as were my cousins. Uncle D passed away a only a year or two ago, and Aunt N suffered from the ravages of Alzheimer's.

God speed Aunt N and my condolences to T, T and D.

Randomness

Sorry for the volume of posts in a single day, but when they come, they come.

K and I are now the parent of a 20YO college student. When did I get so old. I just celebrated the 22nd anniversary of my 29th birthday a few weeks ago, so I cannot be THAAAAAT old.

Pray for A

A is taking Organic II with a new professor. This professor has not taught at the college level before and is causing many of the Organic Chemistry students anguish. So much so that the average on a recent test was 34, with no one scoring higher than a 50.

A has put lots of work in for this class, appears to understand and can apply the materials presented in the text, no all night cramming sessions. Just solid study habits for 2 solid weeks before the exams, along with keeping up on the day to day work for this class.

The Professor gave an in class assignment for the students to work and not a single student had the correct answer (according to the Professors statement in class after reviewing the work).

A is currently managing a "C", but is getting frustrated at the Professor for giving tests worthy of graduate studies. Pray that she can focus for the next 3 weeks and finish the class with the "C".

Oh No, it has started.

The cycle has started. K and I mowed the grass tonight for the first time. Dueling riding lawnmowers to get the job done in a reasonable time. K started about 3 after weeding some of the flower beds, and I came out after dinner was prepared, post work. We worked until about 8PM, slightly after sundown.

Based on normal happenings, this cycle will be repeated every two weeks from now until November.

It was nice while it lasted.

Usually

I am a relatively high energy type of laid back guy. I guess that means (to me anyway) that I am frequently in motion but sometime lack specific direction. That said, I have been doing slightly less travel this year as the Agents that I direct are fewer in number and in a different geography, making organizing effective travel more challenging.

With all the travel that happened late last year and early this year, there is a mental fatigue that has set in, to the point of not really wanting to travel. Maybe I need to take a week off for vacation and not pick up my phone or email.

After coming back

from a trip to Northern Ohio, I got a cold, with sinus drainage and fever that was somewhat nasty. The symptoms did not really start until Friday PM and I spent most of Saturday and Easter Sunday with a fever, coughing and hacking.

Seems the yo-yo weather in NC and Ohio finally caught up with me. C had the cold the couple of weeks before me and is just now really getting better. Traveling with her during her spring break is probably where I got the bug.

New Places, New Faces

Last week, I traveled to Southeastern PA, Delaware and Southern NJ. It was new territory for me and as such it was very interesting. I will be going back in about a month to follow-up what was started on this trip.

We went to some interesting places. In Southern Delaware, we went to a microbrewery called Dogfish Head Brewery with their specialty beers, IPA's. They use several different pieces of my equipment and had some questions. While it is the same processes as in a place like Anheuser Busch or Miller, the scale is much smaller, the place is more artisan, and the people are more interesting. The whole environment at these type places is less of a chemical plant that just happens to make beer to that of a place that seems more free spirited, almost artisan like to the point of having 2 Boccie Ball courts out in front of their front door. They do tours on MWF at 3 PM if you are ever in the area with even some sampling of their products. This was a good, but fun sales call.

Earlier that day in more northern Delaware, we had gone into a manufacturer of the inert ingredients of pills (as one end use example). They take paper pulp, break it down further to the cellulose and use the cellulose as the inert ingredients. This company, prior to us going in, had a bad experience with my type of equipment in the past.

Upon arriving, the Process Engineer was informed by a co-worker of the challenges previously experienced. (Seems as if one of my competitors had been in there, sold them some equipment based on price, not no the application and the equipment was significantly undersized for the process.) This made for an awkward sales experience, but we were able to demonstrate knowledge of my product, coupled with experiences that we had in similar applications to garner a trial to prove the equipment acceptability to this customer. By the end of the sales call, there was significantly less skepticism about the ability for the equipment and an open, honest dialog had been established.

I was slightly west of York on Friday AM at a Paper Mill retrieving demo equipment. Interesting town (very small) but beautiful country side. I will need to take K with me next time to this area as she would enjoy it.

And so it was, all week.

This is truly amazing

One down, one to go

Spring breaks that is. A had her Spring break over the last week. She and some college schoolmates went to Kiawah Island in SC. One of their parents owns a portion of a house there and they spent the week just beach and doing nothing. It was a relaxing spring break for A. It is nice to have friends that have places like this.

She as also home Friday, through earlier tonight, now on back to school. She is finished with school on or about May 2 for the summer.

Next up, C's spring break that begins on Thursday at 5PM and lasts for a week and a half.

I got the coolest phone

call today about 11:30 this morning. LO (aka the King)from the Merry old Land of Oz decided to borrow his father's phone and called, unsupervised of course. We talked about L, we talked about the Cadet, and where his father and mother were; in general had a wonderful little conversation. I asked questions and L answered in good, complete sentences. For example:

me: how ya doing?
L: My brubber is sick?
me: Oh, really? What's wrong with him?
L: He's... He's got...I don't know, but he is sick.

And so it went. A pleasant little 3 minute conversation, and then just a quickly, he said goodbye and we hung up. Good future for that guy in sales.

On an email newsletter

that I subscribe, they included a link to the following video. It contains an tourist safari video of a life and death interaction between buffalo, lions and alligators. It is really interesting all that happens in this 8 minute video.



It is safe for young children to see this video. At least I thought it was cool enough to share.

On my last post

It was all about A last weekend. To prove it, here are some pictures of A, K and I at Parents weekend for her sorority:



This is one of A's roommates for next year (at the same function):



The happy Parent unit:



As A's present to C for her upcoming birthday, A got C tickets to the UNC/Florida State basketball game. To prove that she was there, here are a couple of pictures of them:






The game was on a Tuesday night, so C had to get special permission from us and the school to be out past curfew with someone other than her parents. No real problem, just some paperwork.

It is all about A

This weekend. She would have it no other way. Last night, her Sorority had an open house as part of their Parents Weekend Later today, we are going out to dinner with A and then on to a Cocktail put on by the Sorority. Then tomorrow AM there is a brunch, put on by the Sorority that we will attend. "Getting a tan from the light that she is basking..."

I wish there had been a picture

As I am in town this week, I made dinner for K and C tonight. I took some boneless/skinless chicken breasts, poured a little olive oil over them, sprinkled them with some of the bread dipping spices that we got from Sautter's in Sylvania last summer and baked the chicken until done. Also made onion soup potatoes (Lipton's onion soup sprinkled over potatoes per the recipe on the box), green beans and crescent rolls. It was really tasty and there is enough for leftovers tomorrow.

K and C were out Prom dress shopping, so I was home alone all afternoon until about 7PM when they came home, dinner was served. C is home from school for the end of the term.

A and C

When we got together yesterday to give A the papers that were needed for formal entry into Pharmacy School, I took this picture of A and C as we were coming out of Mimi's Cafe in Burlington, NC. We had a great time at dinner and A could not stop beaming. Just a day or two before, A was trying to let herself down easy as she had not yet heard if she was accepted to Pharmacy School and was thinking the worst. Thanks goes to those that prayed for A, now the hard part, living up to the goal.

Got news today

about A and Pharmacy School. Long and the short of it, shezin. The letter came to the house addressed in a normal envelope. As A was at school at a B-Ball game and the envelope did not look like anything out of the ordinary, so K opened it and promptly gasped like the letter had a snake in it.

C and I came running and K had each of us read the letter to make sure what she saw. We did not want a "just kidding" kind of moment. When it was confirmed, we called A, but she could not hear us because of the game. So we did the teenager thing and text messaged her. We got a call back in about 30 seconds, then 22,0000 people at the Dean Dome knew A had been accepted to Pharmacy School as she squealed with delight while her head hit the rafters.

We are proud of her and she is very excited. It has made the work she put in this far worth it. Now to finish out the semester.

Keep smiling sweetie!

Happy Valentine's Day

For you, Sweetie!

Missed it again

A couple of weeks ago, I made some comments about a winter storm that wasn't. How the weather folks thought that there would be much snow, freezing rain and ice, but it never happened. Well yesterday, the weather folks called for rain with an occasional snow flake or two about sundown. Well, last night there was a freak winter storm in our area of 2 - 3 inches of snow, but the temperatures fell so fast the initial precipitation turned to ice then was covered by the snow. Here are some pictures from out backyard.





I had gone to Raleigh on business, meeting with one of my peers from my company and our local agent to do some training and sales forecasting. It was raining intermittently all afternoon, some rain desperately needed. After the work was done, we went to dinner at a restaurant in Raleigh.

I left at about 9PM, with neither A nor C able to come out an play.

When I got to Burlington, NC about 20 miles from home, it was wild. Snowflakes about the size of quarters were falling at a fast and furious pace. I watched as a Honda CRV passed me (I was doing about 30MPH on the Interstate), then do a 540 in front of me then shoot into the ditch. A mile or two further and I watched a dualie pick-up truck pulling one of those car trailers go sideways in the highway in front of me bumping the concrete median barrier, a car plow into the driver's side rear of the same truck, a Suburban hit the trailer and end up off the highway on the right. I was far enough back to avoid the traffic behind me diving for cover and the traffic in front of me by going slow enough to avoid the debris.

There were many other cars and pick-up trucks in the ditches and median along the road. I was fortunate that I stayed far enough from the traffic in front of me and ahead of the traffic behind me that I was in no immediate danger. The drive that should have been about 25 minutes (from Burlington to my house took about an hour and a quarter). Front wheel drive helped greatly as most of the vehicles that had problems were either rear wheel drive or 4 wheel drive where the driver had too much confidence in the vehicle. You can go but you cannot stop.

I am glad this does not occur that often. When I got home, twas mentally exhausted. At this point, there is sympathy for my sister and her commutes through stuff like this in Indiana more often than me.

The snow will be gone this afternoon as the high is to be around 48. I already hear the melt running from the roof.

C came home

this weekend because she needed to study in a quiet place for finals. So she is sequestered in her room, books and papers all over the place, studying AP Chemistry. It is way quieter here than at school.

Final Computer Update

It did end up being a memory module that was bad. Because of that, the computer was upgraded to 1GB memory as I bought a couple of the from eBay for $31 total including shipping. No more BSOD and the anti virus program can run without crashing the computer.

I knew you were just waiting.

My posts

have been somewhat nerdy, so says a S-I-L, posting about obscure subjects like Blue Screen of Death messages. I don't know. It kind of fits me, at least I think.

Anyway, K has completely stripped the cedar chest that we got from JO and we are now waiting slightly warmer weather to put the finish on. We will post pictures after this is done.

Update on the computer

The computer had been running without issue for 6days, which means that the one memory module was bad. Now the real challenge: Do I change the computer for a new one or just buy a couple of new memory modules?

Decisions.

Computer update

The computer has been running without issue for 2+ days. It seems as if removing a suspect memory module has corrected the issue. I will let it run for a couple more days before proclaiming victory, but it is looking good.

Troubleshooting Computers

Our desktop computer has been a pain lately. It is a bit old and has been giving the BSOD, showing random errors causing the automatic shutdown. I am trying to isolate the problem, but Microsoft and Google are very little help when trying to figure out these types of errors. MS indicates it is a driver that is causing the fault, but does not say which one or how to troubleshoot. Google says the same thing, but some sites indicate that a memory module may have a faulty chip, so I am trying removal of one of the memory sticks to see if that will isolate the problem. I originally thought it was my Antivirus, then Java that was crashing the computer, but was incorrect on both counts.

Based on what happened earlier today, either I removed the good memory module or the problem is outside the SDRAM boards. I will probably know within a day or so.

BTW, the BSOD error codes are about worthless.

Boredom In NY

I am waiting for business associates to fly in to Albany, NY. I am sitting in a Panera Bread typing this, having started this day in Pottsdam, NY. It has been a long day of business calls and snowy travel. Near Oswego, NY, along Lake Ontario, there was one of those "Lake Effect Snows" that was wild. We were traveling along in partly cloudy skies, when we could see the sky ahead turn dark. It went from dry conditions to heavy snow in about 3 minutes. At times, the snow was so hard that it was nearly impossible to see 100 feet to the car in front of me. This lasted for 15-20 miles and then, just as fast, was gone. Saw many cars in ditches and a truck that was blown over. The cars were from States other than NY. All in all, just another day in business.

Hope yours was good too.

Yesterday was one

Of those great weather days in NC. It was a day that beginning at 8 AM, the local television crews were on the road, with reporters at several "key" locations through out the region looking for bad weather. They knew it was going to be bad, and all wanted to be the first to show how bad it is.

Even the head meteorologist was on the road to demonstrate how bad things were going to get. All were predicting snowfall in my area at 2-3 inches as a cold front mixed with a low coming off the Gulf full of moisture. It was to be worse east of here as well, but these guys were concentrating on the local area.

Well it finally started raining, as predicted, about 11:00 AM. and it rained for about 3 or so hours before changing over to snow. It never did snow hard, and we ended up with about 1/2 inch of snow.

Over at college, A ended up with less than 1 inch of snow. I think BW got slightly more when all was completed.

What do you call a Chief Meteorologist that is driving around in the television station van looking for snow that does not get here?......Desperate for job security.

Testing Just this one time.

Back in the late 70's and early 80's one of my favorite singers was Peter Gabriel. Recenly whlile wandering around on some of the political related websites I read occcasionally, I stumbled on the below videos of Peter and two of the more memorable offereing by him. They are apolitical, so no body will be offended, but they are offered as entertainment.

In your eyes



Sledgehammer

Some Pictures from Key West

As promised earlier, here are some pictures of my time here in Key West. The temperature is in the upper 60's and the wind is about 10MPH, but gusting to the mid 20's so it can be cool, in a relative sort of way. I like it, but I have more insulation.

First, some local vegetation, a Coconut tree. Notice the blue sky in the background.


This is a view over a marsh. It was only slightly breezy at the time of the picture.


Here is the stern of the yacht, about 150 feet long, masts standing about as tall. The fit, finish and wood trim is just immaculate and the ship is just beautiful. I hails from the UK and I am told it cost about 25 million pounds. Looking at it, the cost is quite evident. There are many tourists that stop and stare at this fine ship. It has dual 21 ft dinghies, jet powered (vs prop).



Wandering all over, these "free range" chickens are very interesting. Many are very colorful, but I am told they are protected, being descendents of the chickens brought over during the discovery period. It is funny to see them wandering around. They cross the road when they want to (there is a joke in there somewhere), yet you do not see them getting hit by the cars. There is no evidence of chicken pate anywhere, these things are fast.



The cruise ships to Key West dock right outside our hotel. It is only a 2 block walk to Duval Street, the tourist trap area in Key West. It is tremendous fun to people watch as they look at all the stuff for sale here.



If I get a chance, I will post other photos as I take them.

Out of Town on Business

Unfortunately, I am out of town on business, but not in too bad a place. I am in Key West, FL. The highs are to be around 75 with lows around 64. I will post a couple of pictures tomorrow, one of a 150 foot private yacht twin mast sailboat. Nice.

However we will be sequestered in meetings during most daylight hours, so the pictures will be sparse.

Enjoy your week.

This post is weak....

in comparison to that of my Sister over at:

merrylandofoz.blogspot.com

but as both A and C were home, tonight's dinner was Ham Loaf, Cheesy Potatoes, Green Beans Crescent rolls and beverage of your choice. This is a favorite of the kids, so I too thought it would taste good. All this after K and A were shopping all afternoon for a sharp business type outfit for her Pharmacy School interview. Seems she made the first cut, 250 out of over 1000 applicants for the final 130 positions.

Well, it was

Quiet. Both A and C are coming home this weekend, for different reasons. C is coming home because she wants to visit some friends that she did not get to see over the Christmas break. We will pick her up after a swim meet later this afternoon.

A is coming home to bug us. Not really, but she has her interview scheduled for Pharmacy School (in a little over a week and a half) and wants to work on her CV (resume), help us spend money on an interview outfit for her, and have us help her with answers to potential interview questions. All of this after she has attended the UNC/NCSU men's basketball game later Saturday. (If you are watching, look for her in the front row!)

Should be a fun day or two.

And Suddenly...

It got quiet. C has been back at school for 5 days. We just took A back to school tonight. It went from a lively household to very quiet. I think K needs the break right now, because when the kids are home, generally it is all about them. But at least for now, a day or two of quiet will be good.

A is feeling very much better after having the wisdom teeth out. In the follow-up visit, the Oral Surgeon says that it is 90% healed. Just in time for school.

Extraction

A had her wisdom teeth pulled today. X rays indicated that she only had 3, but they were bothering her. She is doing quite well, considering what she has gone through. She is doing better at this point than I was doing when I got mine pulled a couple of years ago. Way less bleeding. I wanted to take a picture, but K would not let me (I wonder why?????).

School Essay: What I did on my Christmas Vacation

I am not too sure that the pictures will do justice to what I want to show, but a couple of years ago, I got a dovetailing jig for use with my router. I had intended to use it making the drawers for the kitchen remodel that K and I did. Well my router had an issue with a bearing that went bad, so the drawers ended up mad a different way and the dovetail jig not used.

Over this Christmas vacation, I committed to K that I would make some drawers for a couple of kitchen cabinet bottom sections. This would make it easier to get to the pots, pans and anything else that was stored in the cabinets, using the whole cabinet rather than having something hiding, unused in the back of the cabinet

Well I got my router fixed, tuned the jig and went to town making drawers. The first picture is the cabinet that K wanted done first. It would require 4 drawers, 2 large ones for the left hand side and 2 for the right.


The cabinet open:


Here is a picture of the finished cabinet with the four drawers installed.



I could bore you with the details of the drawer making process, but they were make of Baltic Birch and custom fit for each cabinet. The first 4 turned out so well in K's opinion that she wanted 2 more in a different cabinet. Those turned out the way K wanted, so she has requested a couple more in yet a 3rd cabinet.

The hardest part was getting the finish just right, but in the end, it all looks very good.

Christmas Pictures

As promised, here are some Christmas pictures. Not feeling to wordy today, so enjoy the pictures.

Merry Christmas, Part 2

It is Christmas morning. We have been to church (really K and the kids, as I have a nasty cold and do not want to spread it among the church attendees) and have opened the presents. It seems such a wonderful day. Have a joyous celebration!

Christmas Cookies

As is our custom, each year we make Christmas cut out cookies using the "honey dough" recipe from my Grandmother F. This is same recipe that my mom made as well. This weekend was the weekend to make the cookies. However there is one problem. the dough is good tasting without making the cookies. It is so good that 1/6 of the dough is already consumed, before making cookies. We always make two batches for just this reason. I will post pictures when we make the actual cookies.

Merry Christmas!

Office Express Plus

B, K and B's Mother in Law now own a business of shipping and office supplies. Located nearly across the street from where B previously worked at the Dialysis center, B is now the Entrepreneur! Below is a picture of his new business. It has been a busy and exciting time for B and K. K still works for the hospital. If you look closely at the picture (enlarge it preferably) B can be seen in the pic. B is working hard enough that he has lost more than a few pounds.

Good luck to B, K and M-I-L in their new endeavor

Merry Christmas

Most of those visiting this blog will get this picture in a Christmas card that will be late. It is late because I could not coordinate the schedules of A and C until today. More posts later

It is an unfortunate sign of the times

Last week, a neighbor 4 houses down from us died unexpectedly, leaving a wife and daughter. They have lived there for about a year, yet we never met them and only learned of his passing through a neighbor. Both worked and the child went to daycare after school. We never saw them mowing or doing yard work, or just out.

I was out of town when he passed, but K walks through the neighborhood everyday and knew nothing. It is weird how you can live 600 feet from someone, yet not even know their names.

News form the home front

Only a couple more days of freedom. A comes home from college tomorrow and C comes home of Friday. It is great to see how they both have matured. Pray for A as she takes her exams.

My how time flies

It has been almost a month since my last post, so here are some ramblings...

Went to Ohio for Thanksgiving, everyone, A, C, K and I. We had fun but did not get as much F family time as I would have liked. As we all grow older, it is getting harder and harder to get together.

November was a relatively quiet month, but I just did a lot of traveling for my job. Same stuff different city.

I both love and hate those people that have already sent their Christmas cards. Love them because we get to hear from them, but hate their organization.

It is odd that we just found out that an acquaintance of ours passed away in September when K was having Gall Bladder issues. There was a nice article in the paper about her and her husband over Thanksgiving. She passed after a 7 year battle with Thymoma Cancer. We prayed for her daily, and now hope she has found eternal peace and comfort.

Final Flat E posting

Flat E and I were off to New York city for me to attend the Chem Show. Here is a picture of Flat E and me in my trade show booth.


As we were walking from the Jacob Javits Center we could see the Empire State Building to get a picture of it. The Empire State building is a little over 1000 feet tall and when standing next to it, does not make a good picture.



Walking out of the hotel, Times Square was only a couple of blocks away. Here is a daytime picture of Times Square.



Around the corner from the hotel was the place where David Letterman is filmed. I got there at night, so Flat e is not visible on this one.



This is Flat E in Times Square at night. Lots of lights, noise and people. It is a neat place.



And my final picture is of Flat E at most kids favorite place, The M&M Store with the big animated bill board. In this case, the M&M is pretending to be King Kong on top of the Empire State Building.



Since Flat E has been sent home, things are more docile around here. There is no excitement.

I didn't know you had it in you!!!

My M-I-L Adela was talking with my S-I-L, LU. Adela was telling my SIL that I took a girl friend with me to NYC for the trade show. She was also telling SIL that my girl friend stayed in my hotel room, went out to dinner with me, wandered around NYC and we were even seen at the trade show together, verified by pictures. And Adela also said to my SIL that my wife, K knew all about it and had no problems with the arrangements. According to Adela, she was talking with my SIL for several minutes about our escapades in NYC. Only after a significant time did Adela tell SIL that the girl friend was Flat E!

When K told me this, I was driving in rural SC and about got into a wreck laughing. Nice job Adela, I did not know you had it in you!

And BTW, LU, if you are reading this, I appreciate in a good way some of the comments that were relayed from Adela.

Flat E and the trip to Virginia

Flat E and I went on a business trip to western Virginia. Visiting Lexington, VA we stopped at VMI, Virginia Military Academy. This is a place the some of our forefathers had some adventure during the Civil War.









From Lexington, VA, we traveled along the Maury River were the leaves were pretty. We also found an old lock set for traveling the river, the pictures are below.





After doing some business in Lexington, VA, we traveled to Buena Vista, VA that was only a few miles away. This is another small town in the Shenandoah Valley. Since it was during the fall, the colors were pretty. We also saw a cool sign in the city.





After I did my business, we then traveled back toward Lynchburg, VA from Buena Vista,VA along HWY 501. It starts out along the Maury River, then at the peak of the mountains, 501 parallels the James River where again the colors were great. The views are not as great as out west, but for Eastern Mountains, the view was pretty great.









And then we saw a cool snail. Flat E was too big to fit into the picture.



Hope you like the pictures. We are off to NYC next.

Last Update for K and the Gall Stones

K is doing much better today. She is eating without nausea and has only limited pain, typically A. A will get her laughing and the incisions will hurt, and A will keep going making K laugh harder, making it hurt more, but in a good way, I guess.

K and the Gall Stones, Update 3, Plus other stuff

It is now about 6 PM and K is feeling like she got run over by a truck. All of the nausea, as well as the two procedures have irritated her throat, so when she tries to eat or drink, it hurts. But she says that she feels way better at home than at the hospital, so that is good. Doing anything I can to help, but mostly just leaving her alone to sleep.

Meanwhile, A is on Fall Break but had to take the PCAT this morning. I got up at 6:25 this AM to make sure she was up, but apparently she had slept through her alarm. I knew that I was to hear noises and there were none. I made sure she had a good breakfast before going to the test. The test started at 8:45AM and was done at about 1:30PM.

C also wanted to spend some time at home this weekend, so I have also been making sure her laundry was done while she visited friends today. She needs periodic breaks from school and took Friday and today to give her mind a rest.

Hope your day is going great.

K and the Gall Stones, Update 2

I got the call from K this morning at 6:45 AM. The Doc officially said that she could come home. I will be leaving in a few minutes to get her, but first had to get A off to take the PCAT.

I will post more information later today.

Update, 9:00AM

K is now home and is resting as comfortably as possible given that she had gall baldder removal surgery. She is happy to be home, because the hospital is no place to get any rest.

K and the Gall Stones, Update

K ended up spending last night in the hospital as today the doctor is going to do a ERCP. That means that there was an escapee gall stone that was left over from the laparoscopic procedure that needed to come out. They do this by endoscope (the E in the above acronym). The doctor either destroys or extracts the stone, but one way or the other, it means another painful procedure.

It was done on K at about 1:30 PM today and the Doc says that everything is now fine. This miscreant stone is the probable reason that K had such bad nausea after the initial removal and over night. Now that this is done, K seems in good spirits, is eating liquids without nausea and if she can eat solid foods later this evening or tomorrow AM, should be home by noon.

Thanks for the calls, thoughts and prayers for K. We appreciate the concerns.