Thank God
We have some news here! We (Julie and I) figured out a way to make our life A LOT better. We have found a way to get out of some financial trouble and out of this tin can of a house. (Our Mobile home)
Here is a picture of what looks to be our dream house.
Here is a link to all the pictures. I will have some video maybe later.
I think the good Lord has seen a way for us ands has pointed us in the right direction to get a clean fresh start on this.
 For those of you who didn’t know it. Our mobile home is a disaster.  The roof leaks. The floors are bad, and is generally falling apart. It is so bad I wont even show you any pictures!
It looks like we will be ready to start moving after November 1st, and hopefully, be done by Christmas!
 This is going to be a nice birthday present for Julie and a great Christmas gift for my family!
Thank you so much Lord!
Howdy All!
I’m typing this into a word document first so I can run the spell checker. I also don’t have access to my blog while logged in to work.Â
It’s been a long, long week. I haven’t posted much because I have been concentrating on fixing this blog and importing some old posts from “The MT days”. What a pain! Don’t EVER switch hosting servers with out making triple-sure that you have a database backup. Silly me backed up all my files but for got the database. In my defense I was hurried to make a quick backup before my host switched DNS server over. They only gave me 4 hours to do it. Dummy me should have had one backed up before I called them. Oh well! I’ve learned a lot more about WordPress this way and I like it a lot better.
Life is generally boring right now. All I do is work, play with blog, and on Sundays I video out church service and spend the rest of the day encoding the video for the web and on DVD. The service is also broadcast on out local cable TV network later in the week.
WordPress 2.3 is installed and I’m still learning all the neet things to do with tags. Anybody have any suggestions? I’m addicted to now watching and waiting for all my plug-ins to update. I’ll bet I’ve reloaded 3 or 4 of them at least twice a piece this week. Want to see what I have?
Nothing much else new to report here than Andy is still growing and reeeeeaaaaallllyyyy likes school! It is no problem at all getting him ready for the bus in the morning.
Julie will be posting her monthly article for the paper on this blog shortly. Stay tuned!
Wow! What a day!
I working on being awake 34 hours now. after the all-night-er, doh Well, I better not spend too much time on here, and go get some rest.
From my family members not in Wisconsin, I need some stories and content to post here on a page dedicated to My Dad and also Grandfather Harley. If you have some funny comments, stories , or photos, I would love to post them here on this website. {help}
Please let me know by commenting on this post or by emailing me. You all know the email address
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I’m still here!
Sorry it’s been so long since last post. I’m doing OK. I am real fatigued lately with this chemo stuff. The doctor says tumor is down 60%. That is the good news.
I have been working real hard to catch up on hours lately due to and small financial crisis. So not much time to post.
I love you all for supporting me.
More later
Lumpy not so lumpy
I am feeling better today. Have been on antibiotics for 3 days now. Im coming off the IV for now.
Im still running low grade fever still, but headaches have decreased. I woke up this am hungry and feeling more chipper but am getting anxious for needle biopsy results tomorow. My Blood Presures are up today for some reason. My lower numbers are above 90. They have not been over that number for any length of time in last 8 months. Im getting nervious and frightfull again. I know I need to stop doing that, but sitting and laying around hospital doesnt help.
Oh, the swelling in my neck has gone down some and is not quite so tender.
I wish I would have thought about it and had My Hunny bring the camera up so I could have took a picture of it. (Hey, Large potatoes and pumpkins win contests…)
The staff here is wonderful even though shorthanded this weekend. Have made some new friends here.
Dont mind my ranting, just anxious and lonely and bored, so I thought I would just write down my feelings.
If all goes as expected tomorrow I will go home.
So I’ll keep y’all posted
Thanks to all my friends, family, and loved ones that have either called me or Jules to says hi and pray for us. It really helps
so long for now
*Not so Lumpy*
Lumpy’s update
Man Im so tired. This post is from the hospital! I’m admitted because the lump on my neck became swollen and very painfull yesterday.
Today I went through some tests. A PET scan and a needle biopsy to see what is wrong. Doc put me on anti-biotics and then I got a fever! I didnt get much sleep last night as swollen neck, fever, and migraine kept me awake.
I feel better today after done with tests and get to eat some supper.
Acording to the Oncologist that i saw today, we may have to go under the knife to get better tissue sample of the “mass”. That probabbly wont happen till monday or tuesday. I dont think they will let me go home tommorrw unless sweeling goes down and fever goes away.
I love you all and please keep me in your prayers.
Al
update
Well here is an update. Last week I had 2 ct scans and follow up visit to doctor about lump on my neck. Like I said before, it is possibly a lymphoma. That is not confirmed yet! My next appointment is with an oncologist on Wednesday to pursue next steps, i.e. more blood work or possibly biopsy.
Today, this egg sized lump in my neck started to hurt. I’m trying not to get worried, but this thing is growing quickly. I don’t think I can rush this at doctor’s office. Should I be concerned at this point? Neck is sore and I have headache. I think due to lump crowding everything else in there making it hurt.
Anybody have any pointers for me?
Oh Oh!
 Well Here I sit all worried. The Ct scan of my neck came back as “indicative of a lymphoma“ I see the doc Monday afternoon to discuss next options or tests. The lump is growing and I am scared shitless. Now what the hell do I do?
Too tired to say anymore now
Some News
Hi All
Here are some tidbits for you. I have been seeing the doctor about a couple of things lately, so here is an update.
About a year and half ago I noticed a small lump on my chest right on my sternum about the size of a walnut. At the time my doctor said not to worry about it as it may just be fat deposit (go figure). Ok, so I left it alone and kept watching it grow until now.
Now 2 weeks ago while shaving one morning, I feel a lump on the side of my throat about the size of a peanut. I showed the wife and she said “Wow! Where did that come from?†A few days later it is the size of a small egg. So here we go again to the doctor. He is not sure what it is and orders an Ultrasound for my neck and chest x-ray. The x-ray shows nothing unusual and blood work is normal. Next comes the ultrasound. The radiologist comes in and looks at the screen and mutters quietly “Oh My!†He immediately recommends that I get a CT scan of my neck to see what this “Large Mass†on my neck is. And while we are at it get CT scan of chest also to check out that lump.
So, by now, I’m nervous and scared. I have 2 appointments next week because you can’t scan both neck and chest at the same time. I have never had a CT scan before. Are they bad or scary?
This post is to keep family and friends informed. I hope and pray that lump is just lymph node or some blockage of some kind because I’m too scared to even type, let alone say, the bad word that starts with “Câ€.
So keep me in your prayers please and I will keep you posted
aarrrggghhh!
The continuing saga
I had surgery on July 20 to Biopsy the lymph node in my neck. The doctor was going to remove the whole node but decided not to on the table since it was full of infected cells. The end result was, they grabbed enough tissue to “stage†the lymphoma and will treat tumor with chemotherapy from hear out. The prognosis is good since my Bone marrow biopsy came back clear.
Neck surgery is not fun. Every movement hurts. It still hurts today but I am back to work.
I hopefully, will find out on July 26 what type and how aggressive the Chemotherapy will be
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