My weekend

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I drove to PA on Friday, stayed the night with my cousins Andrea and Steve. Thanks by the way, it was a fun evening and a thousand times better than sleeping in the van. Then yesterday, I attended my aunt Elsie's funeral. It was sort of surreal in that the last time I saw Elsie, she had been in good health. I had gotten the emails that she was sick, but always figured that she would pull through. So it was sort of a shock to hear of her passing. I glad I went. I wanted to go and it also freed Dad up to feel ok about not going. After the Funeral I drove home. I like to drive so it was an enjoyable trip, it went by very fast.

This afternoon Kris and I got to go and spend an hour with Mom. It was good to be with her, but disheartening. She can barely respond to us and only opened her eyes once for a second. She did squeeze my hand once, when we asked her too. She has tubes coming out all over her. I just pray that she heals and comes back to us whole. Thanks for all of your prayers and please keep them coming. It is going to be difficult to focus my mind on work this week. Make sure to pray for Kara and Marcus as well as Brenda. They seem to be baring the brunt of this, with Kara's nursing knowledge coming in very handy, and of course Marcus is stretched very thin.

The diagnosis

So we have the diagnosis. Herpes encephalitis. It's nasty, but can be treated. Hopefully we've caught it early enough. It is also contagious, so we have contacted our doctors to see if there is anything we need to do. Keep praying, for a full recovery for mom, and that nobody else gets it.

What a day...

Not the best day in the world. For those of you who don't know, my Mom (Brenda Freed) is pretty sick and at Madison County Hospital. She had a high fever most of last week and started throwing up on the weekend. Sunday morning they finally went into the hospital. She started having dementia at the time to, just little things at first, but she is now to the point where she can't remember us. We are not totally sure what is going on. She seems to have a slight urinary track infection, but that shouldn't cause this much dementia. The Doctor wanted to do a spinal tap to check on her brain, but she was uncooperative, so they have put that off until tomorrow. In the meantime, she has been pumped full of antibiotics with the hopes that it will fix it. We should know by morning. Please be in Prayer for the situation.

Second thing that happened is that my Aunt Elsie out in Pennsylvania died. We had known that she was sick for awhile now, but I didn't really think that she would go.

Last and really least, I went back to the Doctor to get results from my 30 year physical. He said that I have some abnormally high liver enzymes, so tomorrow I am going in for a ultrasound of my Liver and gall bladder. Not looking forward to it. Oh and I have high cholesterol, so it is time for a change in diet to boot. I had to take the family and head to Springfield this evening so I could voice my air shift for tomorrow at WEEC. We'll see what tomorrow holds.

Anybody still reading this?

I wouldn't blame you if you weren't. Not a whole lot of action going on. So... Yesterday I went in to get a physical. We figured that since I just turned 30 in January that it would be a good time to make sure that everything was hunky dory. It appears to be, although I wont get the results of the body fluid tests until Monday. What I think is fun is that I made the connection that my doctor's brother is my mechanic. My Doctor is Dr. Khan, and I get my cars fixed at Khan's Auto repair. It's just a little bizarre. One fixes my car, the other fixes me. They both seem highly competent.

Glory is having fun trying to walk. She can get pretty far before she forgets herself and topples over. She will also nod her head yes to any question. It can be "are you hungry?" or "Are you purple?" and she will always nod her head up and down. Very cute.

I want this alarm clock.

And here is a video of Glory hamming it up

Once in a While

In my defense, life since I last posted has been a bit crazy. Hopefully, I can start updating this here blog on a more regular bases.

This week I am doing the morning show, which means I get to work way before anyone else gets up, then get home at 230 and take a nap for as long as Glory and Kalvary let me.

(You need High speed internet alert)

This is funny. The mayor of Cincinnati really wishes he could get a do over.